gloire French · revision 15765

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1050, Vie de saint Alexis, glorie|origins=la glōria}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɡlwaʁ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''gloire''' ''f'' (plural gloires)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French ''glorie'' (about 1050), ''gloire'' (1080), ''glore''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|glōria|t=renown, good reputation; in Church Latin, the majesty of God, heavenly bliss]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|4, 164a) Littré notes that “glorie” was only a spelling recalling the Latin, the word being pronounced in two syllables.^(Littré 1873) Compare [[es|gloria]] and [[it|gloria]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The ''Vie de saint Alexis'' (about 1050) uses ''glorie'' for heavenly bliss.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ After the religious sense came, from classical Latin, the sense “renown, fame” (Wace, 1130–1140), and also from it “splendour, magnificence” (about 1160) and “honour”, very common in the 17th century and now archaic; they remain in ''se faire gloire de'' (1611) and ''travailler pour la gloire'' (1872), “to work for nothing”.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) ''Vaine gloire'' (late 12th century) is vanity.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) By metonymy ''une gloire'' is a famous person (1638–1639, Rotrou; already ''la gloire des Thébains'' in 1565).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(BHVF)

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+ In painting ''gloire'' is the halo surrounding the body of Christ (1622), and then a painted sky opening onto the heavens.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) ''Être parti pour la gloire'' meant to be tipsy (1867).^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1050 – ''Glorie'', heavenly bliss (''Alexis'').^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1080 – The form ''gloire'' (''Roland'').^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1130–1140 – Renown, fame (Wace).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * c. 1160 – Splendour (''Enéas'').^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * late 12th century – ''Vaine glorie'', vanity.^(TLFi)

+ * 1622 – A halo in painting.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1639 – A famous person (Rotrou).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|glory|alt=Glory]], great renown: ''au sommet de sa gloire''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A source of pride; a famous person: ''ce poète est la gloire de son temps''.^(Larousse)^(TLFi)

+ # ''(religion)'' The majesty of God; heavenly bliss: ''gloire à Dieu''.^(GLLF 1989)^(TLFi)

+ # ''(art)'' A [[m|en|halo]] or radiance around Christ; a painted heavenly sky.^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ # ''Pour la gloire'': for nothing, unpaid.^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[gloriette]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[glorieux]]

+ * [[glorifier]]

+ * [[la|glōria]]

+ * [[en|glory]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}