SĂ-I DĂM CREDIT CREDITULUI
LET’S GIVE CREDIT TO CREDIT

Summary/Abstract: Since the beginning of the 90s, we, Romanians, seem to be pushed on a daily basis to do and to have more and more (a tendency that we share with many other countries). As a consequence, the banking institution has gained a lot of visibility in our daily life, which means a frequent use of financial-banking terminology by the media and by ordinary people as well. On the other hand, we are at a moment when we look back at the history of our people with nostalgia and gratitute, remembering those who contributed to the forging of the Romanian nation.Thus, in this paper we aim at analysing the Romanian term credit starting from its occurences in Victor Slăvescu’s paper Istoricul Băncii Naționale a României (1880-1924) (The History of the National Bank of Romania (1880-1924)), published in 1925, and making a parallel with the term’s current use in the Romanian newspaper Ziarul Financiar (The Financial Newspaper). In doing so, we try to notice the transformations in meaning and use of the term, if any, and, in a broader sense, the testimony these mutations make of the evolution of the financial-banking field in Romania.We shall start by setting the context of the paper written by Victor Slăvescu, paying homage to the author and selecting a few historical data regarding the establishment of the National Bank of Romania. We shall then concentrate on the Romanian term credit, tackling it from a lexicological, terminological and linguistic point of view. In that sense, we shall give a few definitions of the term, as found in various dictionaries (Romanian, French, Latin), both older and more recent. Subsequently, we shall focus on the use of the term credit in Istoricul Băncii Naționale a României (1880-1924) and in Ziarul Financiar. We shall look at the types of occurrences in the two sources, observing the collocations in which they appear (the term’s combination with prepositions, with verbs and adjectives among others).In a nutshell, in this paper we put forward a brief analysis of the Romanian term credit from a double perspective, diachronic and synchronic, highlighting the evolution of its use in the broader context of the development of the financial-banking field.

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