gazette French · revision 15731

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=late 16th century, Agrippa d'Aubigné|origins=vec gazeta}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɡa.zɛt/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Louisiana): [ɡazɛt]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Louisiana): [ɡazet]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''gazette''' ''f'' (plural gazettes)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|it|gazzetta|t=news sheet]] (before 1580),^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|4, 22a) from the name of the Venetian news sheet [[m|vec|Gazeta de le novità]], which cost a [[m|vec|gazeta]], a small coin struck at Venice from 1539 and worth about three liards.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(GLLF 1989) D'Aubigné uses “gazette” for the coin itself.^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873)

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+ The origin of the Venetian coin name is disputed.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) It may be a derivative of [[la|gaza|t=treasure]], from [[grc|γάζα|tr=gáza|t=the Persian king's treasure]], a word of Iranian origin;^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005) or a diminutive of [[vec|gaza|t=magpie]], of the same origin as [[geai]], as Bloch and Wartburg prefer and the TLFi thinks less likely.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005) Rey adds that [[frm|gaser|t=to chatter]] (modern [[jaser]]) must have helped the borrowing, a gazette being thought of as a chatterer.^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005) Littré also cites, and rejects, an Indo-Persian word for “paper” proposed by Garcin de Tassy.^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Agrippa d'Aubigné, late in the 16th century, writes of what ''nous dit la gazette'', a periodical paper of news; in another passage he uses it for the Venetian coin worth three liards.^(Littré 1873)^(GLLF 1989)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''La Gazette'' was the title of a satirical poem in 1609, and Cotgrave (1611) defines a ''gazette'' as a news sheet^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007); Théophraste Renaudot's ''Gazette'' of 1631 made it the name of a newspaper.^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007) From the late 16th century the word is also used of a talkative person who spreads news, and before 1654 of a detailed account of small news.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ''Gazette'' has since given way to [[journal]] and survives mainly in newspaper titles, jokingly, or regionally; in Belgium it is a daily paper.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse) The derivative ''gazetier'' (1633) has gone out of use.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1539 – The Venetian coin ''gazeta'' is first struck.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * before 1580 – Italian ''gazzetta'' “news sheet”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1609 – ''La Gazette'', title of a satirical poem.^(TLFi)

+ * 1611 – Cotgrave defines it as a news sheet.^(TLFi)

+ * 1631 – Renaudot's ''Gazette''.^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ * 1633 – ''Gazetier''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * before 1654 – A detailed account of small news (Guez de Balzac).^(GLLF 1989)^(DHLF 1992)

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

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(dated, regional or humorous)'' A periodical [[m|en|newspaper]]; a [[m|en|gazette]].^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # ''(Belgium)'' A daily paper.^(Larousse)

+ # ''(dated)'' A person who spreads [[m|en|gossip]]: ''la gazette du quartier''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[gazetier]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[jaser]]

+ * [[en|gazette]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Littré has a second ''gazette'', a porcelain makers' term, an alteration of ''casette'', the clay case in which pieces are fired.^(Littré 1873)^(FEW|2, 451b) ''Gazette'' is spelled with two ''t'', ''gazetier'' with one.^(Larousse)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}