zilnic

Forms

zilnic m or n (feminine singular zilnică, masculine plural zilnici, feminine/neuter plural zilnice)^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Romanian zi (“day”) + -nic, on the plural ⟨zile⟩.^[2][3][4][1] zi is from Latin diēs (“day”).^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record is in Gheorghe Asachi's poems of 1836: „Menind soarelui repaos în a lui zilnic mormânt” “appointing rest to the sun in its daily tomb”.^[3][2][6]

Semantic evolution

Litinschi wrote of zilnica cheltuială “the daily expense” and Alecsandri of zilnica lumină “the daily light”; it was also used as an adverb, “every day”.^[3] By extension it came to mean “regular, usual” and then “commonplace”.^[4][2] Pâine zilnică “daily bread” stands for food and for the needs of every day.^[4][2] MDA2 records a rare masculine noun zilnic “a daily newspaper”.^[2]

Timeline

• 1836 – Asachi, the first record.^[3][2][6]
• 1870 – Cihac lists it under zi.^[5]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Happening every day; daily, cotidian: pâine zilnică “daily bread”.^[4][2][1]
2. By extension, usual, everyday; banal.^[4][2]

Adverb

1. Every day: Autobuzul pleacă zilnic la opt. “The bus leaves daily at eight.”^[4][2]

Related words

• ziar

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 1575
3. ^ a b c d Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. zilnic
4. ^ a b c d e f DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1226
5. ^ a b Cihac, A. de (1870), Dictionnaire d'étymologie daco-romane I: Éléments latins comparés avec les autres langues romanes, Frankfurt am Main, p. 323
6. ^ a b Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. zilnic