banal French · revision 15613

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=1247|origins=frk *ban}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ba.nal/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''banal''' (feminine banale, masculine plural banals or banaux, feminine plural banales)^(Wiktionary)

+ Also ''bannel'' (1269).^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Académie 9) Plural ''banaux'' in the feudal sense, ''banals'' in the modern one.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|fr|ban|-al]],^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Académie 9)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary) in the feudal sense of [[ban]], a lord's jurisdiction or proclamation,^(Académie 9)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) a word from [[frk|*ban]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(FEW|15/1, 51b) Compare [[la-med|bannālis]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In 1247 it is a term of feudal law: a ''four banal'' or ''moulin banal'' was the lord's oven or mill, which the people of the lordship were bound to use for a fee.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From “belonging to the lord's district”, the word came to mean “open to all the inhabitants”, as a common meadow or well.^(GLLF 1989)^(Académie 9) From 1688 it was used figuratively of a person who offers himself to everyone as friend or godfather,^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) and by 1778 of what is common to everyone, hence ordinary, trite and unoriginal.^(GLLF 1989)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007) ''Banalité'', at first the lord's right (1555), took the sense “triteness” in 1845.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1247 – Feudal ''banal''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 1269 – ''Bannel''.^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 1555 – ''Banalité'', the lord's right.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1688 – Of a person available to all.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1778 – “Commonplace” (Gilbert).^(GLLF 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ * 1845 – ''Banalité'' “a commonplace”.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|banal|alt=Banal]], [[m|en|commonplace]], unoriginal.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # ''Pas banal'': unusual, remarkable.^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # ''(historical)'' Belonging to the feudal lord and used by his tenants for a fee: ''four banal'', ''moulins banaux''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Littré 1873)

+ # ''(law, dated)'' Shared by all the inhabitants of a commune.^(GLLF 1989)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[banaliser]]

+ * [[banalité]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ban]]

+ * [[banlieue]]

+ * [[en|banal]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}