Maria Cosniceanu (born February 4, 1935) is a

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n linguist, with interests in

onomastics Onomastics (or onomatology in older texts) is the study of proper names, including their etymology, history, and use. An ''alethonym'' ('true name') or an ''orthonym'' ('real name') is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onom ...

.Lingvista Maria Cosniceanu îşi sărbătoreşte cea de-a 85-a aniversare
/ref>O monografie dedicată lingvistei Maria Cosniceanu a fost lansată la Chișinău
/ref>Maria Cosniceanu – Remarcabil cercetător al onomasticii româneşti
/ref> She was born in the village of Temeleuți, Florești, then

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. Graduating from the Philology Department of the Chișinău State University (now the

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) in 1957, for one year she worked as a teacher in a school in Hânceşti. Since 1958 all her life he worked at the of the

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. In 2022 a book devoted to her was published, ''Maria Cosniceanu: In Service of Correct Names''.MARIA COSNICEANU: În slujba numelui corect
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Books

*''Nume de persoană'' (with Anatol Eremia) (1964, 1968, 1974) **the first

anthroponymic Anthroponymy (also anthroponymics or anthroponomastics, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος ''anthrōpos'', 'human', and ὄνομα ''onoma'', 'name') is the study of ''anthroponyms'', the proper names of human beings, both individual and colle ...

guide for the Republic of Moldova *''Studiu asupra numelor de persoană'' (1973) *''În lumea numelor'' (1981) *''Reflecții asupra numelor'' (1986) *''Dicționar cu prenume și nume de familie'' (1991, 1993, 1999) **After the

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and the subsequent recognition that the

Moldovan language Moldovan or Moldavian (Romanian alphabet, Latin alphabet: , Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet: ) is one of the two local names for the Romanian language in Moldova. ''Moldovan'' was declared the official language of Moldova in Article 13 of the Cons ...

is the

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and the proclamation the latter to be the

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of Moldova, returning to the Latin script, Cosniceanu compiled end edited this dictionary. *''Dicționar de prenume'' (2006, 2010) *''Nume de familie (Din perspectivă istorică)''. Chișinău: Pontos, 2004 (vol. I), 2010 (vol. II), 2018 (vol. III).

Awards

*2005: *2010: Dimitrie Cantemir Medal of the Moldovan Academy of Science *2010: First Degree Diploma of the Government of the Republic of Moldova

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cosniceanu, Maria 1935 births Living people Moldovan philologists