salmigondis French · revision 15724

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=derivation|attested=1552, Rabelais, salmiguondin|origins=la sāl}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /sal.mi.ɡɔ̃.di/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''salmigondis''' ''m'' (invariable)^(Wiktionary)

+ ''Salmiguondin'' (Rabelais, 1552), ''salmigondi'' (1596), ''salmigondis'' (1627).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(BHVF)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|frm|salmiguondin|t=stew]], a word of Rabelais, with the ending changed to “-is”.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Rabelais had already used Salmigondin as the name of a castellany given to Panurge in “Pantagruel” (1532), and a soldier called Salmigondre appears in a 15th-century Passion play.^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873) The first part is an expressive enlargement of [[m|frm|salemine|t=dish of several kinds of fish]] (1393), derived from [[sel|t=salt]] with the collective suffixes “-ain” and “-ine”;^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(GLLF 1989)^(FEW|11, 78a) the second, “-gondin”, is probably [[m|fro|condir|t=to season]], from [[la|condiō|t=to season, pickle]], with “c-” turned into “g-”.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Wiktionary) The Grand Robert calls these later elements obscure.^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ Ménage derived it from a Latin “salgama” (pickled things) and “conditus” “seasoned”, which Littré doubted; he thought “-gondis” a fanciful syllable added to [[salmis]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Rabelais's ''Quart Livre'' (1552) lists ''salmiguondins'' among dishes, a stew of several meats.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As a dish, a stew of several reheated meats, the word is now dated; the Académie noted in 1718 that people also said ''salmi'', which became [[salmis]], a game stew (1740).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ By the same image as ''salade'' or ''macédoine'', it soon meant a confused medley of things or people: a 1596 pamphlet was called ''Hochepot ou Salmigondi des Folz'', and Bruscambille (1618) uses it figuratively.^(DHLF 1992)^(BHVF)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1393 – ''Salemine'', a dish of fish (''Ménagier de Paris'').^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1532 – Salmigondin as a place name in ''Pantagruel''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1552 – ''Salmiguondin'' “stew” (Rabelais).^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1596 – ''Salmigondi'' in a pamphlet title.^(BHVF)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1618 – Figurative “medley” (Bruscambille).^(TLFi)^(BHVF)

+ * 1627 – The form ''salmigondis''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1718 – ''Salmi'', later ''salmis''.^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(familiar, pejorative)'' A [[m|en|hodgepodge]], a confused [[m|en|medley]] of things, ideas or people.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # ''(dated)'' A stew of leftover meats; a [[m|en|salmagundi]].^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[salmis]]

+ * [[sel]]

+ * [[condiment]]

+ * [[en|salmagundi]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}