stilou

Forms

stilou n (plural stilouri)^[1] A rare variant is stilo.^[2][3]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French stylo (“pen”), as DEX, MDA2, the DLR and Wiktionary give it.^[4][2][3][1] The French word is a clipping of stylographe (“fountain pen”), which the dictionaries of neologisms name as well.^[5][6]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2 and the DLR take the first record from Cezar Petrescu's novel Comoara regelui Dromichet: „Lăsă repede stiloul culcat pe hârtie” “he quickly laid the pen down on the paper”.^[2][3]

Semantic evolution

The word names a pen with its own ink reservoir, which feeds the nib as one writes;^[4][2] DEX extends it to pens with paste.^[4][2] It replaced the descriptive toc rezervor “reservoir penholder” and the rare stilograf.^[3][2] The DLR quotes it from the novelists Călinescu, Stancu and Preda, as well as in a Moldavian folk verse.^[3]

Meanings

Noun

1. A fountain pen: a writing instrument with a reservoir that feeds ink, or paste, to the tip of the nib.^[4][2]

Related words

• toc
• peniță
• French stylo

Usage notes

The plural is stilouri.^[4] The usual synonym is toc rezervor.^[7][3]

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 990
3. ^ a b c d e f Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. stilou
4. ^ a b c d e DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1053
5. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România
6. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual
7. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. stilou