utiliza

Forms

a utiliza (third-person singular present utilizează, past participle utilizat), 1st conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French utiliser, one of the French neologisms of the 19th century.^{[2][3][4][5][1]} The French verb is from Italian utilizzare, and by its form it is utile (“useful”) with the suffix -iser.^[1] In Romanian it pairs in the same way with util and the suffix -iza.^[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Negulici's dictionary of neologisms of 1848 has utilisare, defined as “to make useful, needful, profitable”.^[6] MDA2 dates the verb to Pontbriant's dictionary of 1862, where it is spelled utilisa.^[3]

Semantic evolution

Negulici's sense “to make useful” gave way to “to put to use”, the only sense of the modern dictionaries.^[6][2] Hasdeu and Caragiale used it in the 19th century, and Șăineanu glossed it in 1929 as “to draw profit from something”.^[4][7] CADE marked it as a neologism from French in 1931.^[8] It stands beside the older folosi and întrebuința, which define it.^[2][3]

Timeline

• 1848 – utilisare “to make useful” in Negulici's dictionary of neologisms.^[6]
• 1862 – utilisa in Pontbriant's Romanian–French dictionary.^[3][4]
• 1929 – Șăineanu defines it as “to draw profit from something”.^[7]

Meanings

Verb

1. (transitive) To use, to utilize: to put something to work, usually with profit: Utilizăm un program nou.^[2][3]

Word family

• utilizator
• reutiliza
• utilizare
• utilizabil

Related words

• util
• utilitate

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1179
3. ^ a b c d e Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 1401
4. ^ a b c Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. utiliza
5. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. utiliza
6. ^ a b c Negulici, I. D. (1848), Vocabular romînesc de toate vorbele streine întroduse pînă acum în limba romînească și de toate cuvintele ce s-ar mai putea introduce încă, București, p. 392
7. ^ a b Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 1, 683
8. ^ Candrea, I.-A.; Adamescu, Gh. (1926–1931), Dicționarul enciclopedic ilustrat „Cartea Românească”, București: Cartea Românească, p. s.v. utiliza