Dosarul

Dosarul is a Romanian masculine noun meaning a file, folder, or dossier—a collection of papers, documents, or records assembled for a specific purpose. It can refer to a physical binder or folder or to a digital collection of documents kept together for a case, project, or study.

Etymology and sense evolution: The word derives from the French dossier, which originally meant a bundle of papers or a pack carried for a task. In Romanian, dosarul carries the same core sense of an organized set of documents.

Usage and contexts: In legal and administrative contexts, dosarul denotes the complete set of documents pertaining to a case or procedure, for example dosarul de anchetă (investigation file) or dosarul fiscal (tax file). In healthcare, dosarul medical refers to a patient’s medical records. In education or employment, a dosar (often dosar de candidat) can describe a portfolio or submission assembled to present credentials. In computing, the term is sometimes used informally to mean a directory or folder, though fișier refers to an individual file and dosar to a container of files.

Grammar and forms: The singular form is dosar; the definite singular is dosarul. The plural is dosare; the definite plural is dosarele.

See also: Dossier (English) and related terms in different languages; folder in computing contexts. Dosarul remains a versatile term across legal, administrative, medical, and organizational domains.