televizor

Forms

televizor n (plural televizoare)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French téléviseur.^{[2][3][4][5][1]} Wiktionary notes that within Romanian it can be analysed as from Romanian televiza + -or, and compares Aromanian tilivizor, also from French.^[1] The French noun is formed on téléviser (“to televise”) with the suffix -eur.^[6]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in N. P. Constantinescu's Enciclopedia invențiunilor tehnice (1939), which describes how the set is tuned with knobs that control the television set on one side and the receiving station on the other.^[3][4]

Semantic evolution

The word has had one sense, the set that receives the pictures sent by television.^[2][4] Colloquially it is called micul ecran “the small screen”.^[7] A derivative televizorist has meant a viewer fond of light entertainment since 1973, and later also a television repairman and a television journalist.^[8]

Timeline

• 1939 – first record, in Constantinescu's encyclopaedia of technical inventions.^[3][4]
• 1973 – the derivative televizorist “television fan”.^[8]

Meanings

Noun

1. A television set: the apparatus that receives pictures transmitted by television.^[2][1]

Word family

• televizorist

Related words

• televiziune
• televiza
• French téléviseur

Usage notes

The plural is televizoare.^[4]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1115
3. ^ a b c Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 1195
4. ^ a b c d e Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. televizor
5. ^ Marcu, Florin (2000), Marele dicționar de neologisme, București: Saeculum Vizual, p. s.v. televizor
6. ^ Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org, p. s.v. téléviseur
7. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. televizor
8. ^ a b Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. televizor