abricot French · revision 15669

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1512, aubercot (Thenaud)|origins=la coquō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /a.bʁi.ko/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''abricot''' ''m'' (plural abricots)^(Wiktionary)

+ ''Aubercot'' (1512–1525), ''arbricoz'' (1545); ''abricot'' from 1525–1547, standard in dictionaries from Cotgrave (1611) and finally from Furetière (1690).^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is an indirect borrowing of [[ar|البرقوق|tr=al-barqūq]], with the article [[m|ar|ال|tr=al-]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|9, 284a) Bloch and Wartburg and the GLLF give it as [[bor|ca|albercoc]], which gave the early form “aubercot”;^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(GLLF 1989)^(Wiktionary) the Grand Robert and Schmidt take the modern form from [[es|albaricoque]] or [[pt|albricoque]].^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Schmidt 1914) The Arabic word was borrowed from Late Greek [[grc|πραικόκιον|tr=praikókion]],^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary) from [[la|praecoquum|t=early-ripening (fruit)]], from [[m|la|praecox|t=precocious]],^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Littré 1873) from [[m|la|prae-|t=before]] and [[m|la|coquō|t=to cook, ripen]].^(Petit Robert 2007) So, as Littré noted, a Latin word came back into Romance through Arabic.^(Littré 1873) It is a doublet of [[précoce]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ Native to China, the apricot came to the Mediterranean through Syria and Armenia, whence its Greek and Latin name “Armenian fruit”; the Arabs reintroduced its cultivation in Andalusia and Sicily.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Jacques Thenaud's ''Voyage d'outremer'' (1512) lists ''aubercotz'' among fruit trees;^(Schmidt 1914)^(GLLF 1989) Charles Estienne writes ''abricot'' in 1547.^(Schmidt 1914)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The word has kept its sense, the round, stone fruit with orange-yellow flesh.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi) As a colour it is a soft orange-yellow, and the invariable adjective is found in Balzac (''culotte... couleur abricot'').^(GLLF 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007) In thieves' slang and later in informal French, ''abricot'' is also a name for the vulva.^(Schmidt 1914)^(Wiktionary) The tree is the ''abricotier'' (1526).^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1512 – ''Aubercotz'' (Thenaud).^(Schmidt 1914)^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1526 – ''Abricotier''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1547 – ''Abricot'' (Charles Estienne).^(Schmidt 1914)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1611 – ''Abricot'' in Cotgrave's dictionary.^(TLFi)

+ * 1843 – ''Abricotine''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|apricot]].^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A soft orange-yellow colour.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(vulgar)'' The [[m|en|vulva]].^(Wiktionary)^(Schmidt 1914)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # Apricot-coloured (invariable).^(GLLF 1989)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[abricotier]]

+ * [[abricotine]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[précoce]]

+ * [[en|apricot]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}