ABORDAREA ETIMOLOGICĂ A TERMENILOR MEDICALI ROMÂNEŞTI ÎMPRUMUTAŢI DIN FRANCEZĂ
ETYMOLOGICAL APPROACH OF ROMANIAN MEDICAL TERMS BORROWED FROM FRENCH

Summary/Abstract: Words of French origin can be found both in fundamental vocabulary and in the mass of vocabulary (terminological units from various scientific and technical fields - medicine, chemistry, botany, sociology, psychology, etc.) Considering the importance of French language and the decisive role in defining the character of modern Romanian language, our analysis focuses French loanwords in the medical field, where the issue of the formation of specialized terminological units is very complex. Through lexical analysis of a corpus of medical terms extracted from the Dictionary of lexical borrowings from French (DILF) (Craiova, 2010) and from and the Medical Dictionary (DM) (Rusu, V., revised fourth edition, Medical Publishing House, Bucharest, 2010), this paper aims the etymologically clarification of loanwords in the Romanian medical vocabulary and the study of lexical borrowings from French also from the etymological point of view. Presented in a descriptive and semantic approach, the article illustrates through several examples from the corpus of the letters A - C, extracted from two lexicographical sources, three types of etymology: multiple, single, «controversial» (HRISTEA, 1968, 143), according to linguistic (formal and semantic) and extra-linguistic criteria (functional). Medical terminology is an inexhaustible source of analysis for linguistic research, the study aiming a better understanding of the specialized medical terms of French origin, which highlights the increased availability of Romanian language for integrating and processing terms with foreign origin.

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