Often in everyday life, if you give someone advice, you can hear the appeal to yourself - "advisor". But who is this? How do you know what the person meant? This article will help you figure out what it means.
Meaning of the word
An adviser is a person who gives advice. Often this word is used with a touch of irony, as if not taking what was said seriously. Usage example: "You are by far my best advisor."
Derivation
One of the most complex word-formation schemes is the suffix method, since suffixes have been little studied. Even in separate articles devoted to this topic, there is no detailed information about their meanings. You can find out what meaning a new suffix gives by comparing the semantics of the words formed with its help. So, "adviser" is a derivative of "advise" with the help of the suffix -chik. He is a couple. The suffixes -chik / -schik, like -nik, denote a person, his type of activity, and a characteristic of the profession. Thus, the person whose job it is to give advice is the adviser.
Origin
The concept is relatively new. ATlanguage it entered only at the beginning of the XIX century. First appeared in the dictionary in 1825 as a neologism. An explanation was added to it that the "adviser" was formed in order to distinguish those who like to give advice from advisers who have a state rank. At that time, the word "adviser" began to take on a high, official meaning, denoting a public position.
It is noteworthy that the suffixes -chik/-schik are quite common. But then why was the concept formed with him only at the beginning of the 19th century? Most likely, the fact is that the word "advise", from which it is formed, requires a different suffix to form the word. Verb forms with -ovate and a fixed stress falling on the stem require the suffix -tel (that is, adviser) or -shchik (that is, adviser) to form it with the meaning "actor". However, in the 1920s there was a slight shift in grammatical trends in the formation of words with the suffix -chik.
Later between the concepts of "advisor" and "advisor" there was an even greater difference. The first began to be called only people holding a high public position. For example, an embassy adviser, a titular adviser. This word has become synonymous with the word "consultant". They began to call an adviser in mockery, denoting a person who gives bad advice. So, the first word has a book shade, and the second one has an ironic one. Therefore, an adviser is a word with a negative meaning.
