plant French · revision 15811

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=back-formation|attested=late 14th century, Eustache Deschamps|origins=la planta}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /plɑ̃/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''plant''' ''m'' (plural plants)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a back-formation from [[planter]],^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|9, 22b) which is [[inh|la|plantō|t=to plant]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(DHLF 1992) It is a doublet of [[plan]] “plan, map”, which Bloch and Wartburg explain as the same word, confused in writing with “plan” “flat surface”.^(Wiktionary)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Eustache Deschamps (late 14th century; the TLFi dates it 1407) uses it for a young plant to be set out, or just planted;^(TLFi) the GLLF reads it there as “the act of planting”.^(GLLF 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In 1495 it meant a plantation of young trees or shrubs.^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) In the 16th century it also meant “the act of planting” (La Boétie) and “position” (Amyot's statue that stays ''en son plant'').^(Littré 1873)^(Grand Robert 2005) The sense “plants of one kind set in a piece of ground, and the ground itself” is recorded by Furetière in 1690.^(GLLF 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ''Plant'' also names a vine stock or grape variety (''plant américain'').^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse) The phrase ''laisser en plan'' “to leave in the lurch” was first written ''en plant'', after ''planter là quelqu'un''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Late 14th century – In Eustache Deschamps.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1495 – “Plantation of young trees”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1551 – A young plant to be set out.^(GLLF 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 1690 – A plot planted with one kind, in Furetière.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A young plant or [[m|en|seedling]] to be planted out, or just planted: ''plants de tomates''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # A set of plants of one kind grown together; the plot planted with them: ''un plant d'asperges''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # A vine stock; a grape variety: ''plant américain''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[planter]]

+ * [[plante]]

+ * [[plan]]

+ * [[planton]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}