sequin French · revision 15728

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1400, essequin|origins=ar سكة}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /sə.kɛ̃/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sequin''' ''m'' (plural sequins)^(Wiktionary)

+ ''Essequin'' (1400), ''chequin'', ''cequin'' (1540), ''sechin'' (1570), ''sequin'' (1532), ''zecchin'' (1611).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|it|zecchino]], a Venetian word for a gold coin struck at Venice from 1280 or 1284, although the word is only found from 1543.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary)^(Larousse)^(FEW|19, 158b) It is derived from [[m|it|zecca|t=mint]], from [[ar|سكة|tr=sikka|t=die for coining; coin]].^(TLFi)^(Wiktionary)^(Littré 1873)^(Académie 9) Rey and Bloch and Wartburg make “zecchino” come rather from an Arabic adjective “sikkī” “coin”, itself derived from “sikka”.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) The Arabic word also gave [[pro|seca|t=mint]] and [[es|ceca]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ ''Essequin'' names a coin in a Tournai testament of 1400;^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989) ''sequins de Turquie'' appear in an inventory of 1532, and the Venetian gold coin by name about 1534.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The ''sequin'' was the gold ducat of Venice, which became the coin of long-distance trade and was current in Italy and the Levant until 1822.^(TLFi)^(Larousse)^(GLLF 1989) From the coins sewn on as ornaments (1817, Stendhal), the word came at the end of the 19th century to name a small disc of shiny metal sewn on clothing, a [[m|en|spangle]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1280 – The Venetian gold coin is first struck.^(TLFi)

+ * 1400 – ''Essequin''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1532 – ''Sequins de Turquie''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1543 – Italian ''zecchino'' is recorded.^(TLFi)

+ * 1611 – ''Zecchin'', closer to the Italian.^(DHLF 1992)

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

+ * 1817 – Coins worn as ornaments (Stendhal).^(TLFi)

+ * late 19th century – A spangle sewn on clothing (Daudet).^(GLLF 1989)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(historical)'' The gold [[m|en|ducat]] of Venice, current in Italy and the [[m|en|Levant]]; a [[m|en|zecchino]].^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # A small perforated disc sewn on fabric as an ornament; a [[m|en|sequin]].^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[paillette]]

+ * [[en|sequin]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}