Innovation in 19th Century Romanian: Financial and Banking Terminology of Italian Origin
Innovation in 19th Century Romanian: Financial and Banking Terminology of Italian Origin

Summary/Abstract: With the economic development of Romania by the end of the 19thcentury, new economic realities emerged that called for an appropriateterminological representation, which fact resulted in borrowing from Italian,the language of a country where the banking system was well-developed, andhence an ideal source thereof. Our presentation will include an analysis of thefinancial, economic and banking terminology adopted by the Romanianlanguage, of the process of adapting these Italian terms to the peculiarities ofthe borrowing language, and a statistics of borrowings based on the mostrepresentative Romanian lexicographical works.

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