céleri French · revision 15699

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1419, scellerin|origins=grc σέλινον}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /sel.ʁi/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA: /sɛl.ʁi/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''céleri''' ''m'' (plural céleris)^(Wiktionary)

+ ''Scellerin'' (1419), ''scelereau'' (15th century), ''celeris'', ''seleris'' (1651), ''sceleri'' (1656).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|lmo|seleri]], a plural corresponding to Tuscan [[it|sedano]],^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|11, 416a) from [[la-lat|selinon|t=parsley; celery]], from [[grc|σέλινον|tr=sélinon|t=a kind of wild celery]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary) It is not known whether the Greek word is native or borrowed; it gave the Sicilian place name Selinous (Selinunte).^(DHLF 1992)

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+ Littré traces the word through popular Italian “sellaro” and Brescian “seleno”, and notes that it passed from France into the north: [[de|Sellerie]], [[nl|selderij]].^(Littré 1873) Southern French dialects instead say “api”, from [[la|apium]], the source of [[ache]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ ''Scellerin'' is recorded in 1419,^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) and the medieval cookery book ''Le Viandier'' has ''paon au scelereau'', peacock with celery.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The plant was grown for two uses: the leaf stalks (''céleri en branches'', ''céleri à côtes'') and the root (''céleri-rave'', from 1782).^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi) By metonymy ''céleri'' is also the edible part, as in ''céleri rémoulade''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ Despite the accent, it is usually pronounced /sɛlʁi/, and the Petit Robert and the Académie prefer the spelling ''cèleri''.^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1419 – ''Scellerin''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 15th century – ''Scelereau'' in ''Le Viandier''.^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1651 – ''Celeris'' in La Varenne's ''Cuisinier françois''.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1656 – ''Sceleri d'Italie''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1694 – First recorded by the Académie.^(TLFi)

+ * 1782 – ''Céleri-rave''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|celery|alt=Celery]], the garden plant ''Apium graveolens'' grown for its stalks or its [[m|en|root]] (''céleri-rave'', [[m|en|celeriac]]).^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # The edible stalks or root: ''céleri rémoulade''.^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ache]]

+ * [[grc|σέλινον|tr=sélinon]]

+ * [[en|celery]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}