champagne French · revision 15740

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=eponym|attested=1695, Mongin|origins=la campus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ʃɑ̃.paɲ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''champagne''' ''m'' (plural champagnes)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is short for “vin de Champagne”, wine of [[Champagne]], the province,^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(GLLF 1989)^(Wiktionary) whose name is [[inh|la-lat|campānia|t=plain, open country]], used as a place name in Late Latin “Campania Remensis”, the plain of Reims (6th century).^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|2, 152a) “Campānia” is the neuter plural, used as a noun, of [[m|la-lat|campāneus|t=of the plain]], from [[m|la|campus|t=field, plain]], the source of [[champ]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Wiktionary) The common noun “champagne” “open country” is the doublet of [[campagne]], which was borrowed from Italian.^(TLFi)^(Wiktionary)^(REW 1935)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Mongin's ''Promenades de Paris'' (1695) asks ''Duquel, monsieur, du Champagne, du Bourgogne ?'', “Which will you have, sir, champagne or burgundy?”^(BHVF)^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The name ''champagne'' instead of ''vin de Champagne'' seems to coincide with the sparkling wine made by the second fermentation in the bottle associated with Dom Pérignon (1638–1715), which made the wine famous^(DHLF 1992)^(BHVF)^(GLLF 1989); Regnard uses it in 1704–1709.^(DHLF 1992)^(BHVF)^(GLLF 1989) ''Champagniser'' (1839) is to make wine sparkle in this way.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ The wine gave its name to a pale golden colour (1905), and familiarly it is ''champ'' or ''champe'' (1857).^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007) By extension the word is sometimes used of sparkling wines made elsewhere by the same method, a use that is illegal in France.^(DHLF 1992)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 6th century – Late Latin ''Campania Remensis''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1695 – ''Du Champagne'' (Mongin).^(BHVF)^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 1704–1709 – ''Champagne'' in Regnard.^(BHVF)^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1798 – First recorded by the Académie.^(BHVF)

+ * 1839 – ''Champagniser''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1857 – ''Champ'', a slang clipping.^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ * 1905 – A pale golden colour.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|champagne|alt=Champagne]], the sparkling white wine of Champagne: ''champagne brut'', ''sabler le champagne''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(informal, outside Europe)'' Any [[m|en|sparkling wine]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of a pale golden colour.^(Larousse)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[champagniser]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[Champagne]]

+ * [[campagne]]

+ * [[champ]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ A feminine ''champagne'', from the same Latin word, is a rare or regional term for open, chalky country, as in ''la champagne berrichonne'', and in heraldry the lowest third of the shield.^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse) ''Fine champagne'' is a high-grade cognac from the ''champagne'' of the Cognac region.^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}