acoustique French · revision 15967

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1700, Sauveur|origins=grc ἀκούω}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /a.kus.tik/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''acoustique''' (plural acoustiques)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is borrowed from [[grc|ἀκουστικός|tr=akoustikós|t=of hearing]],^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(FEW|24, 277b) from [[m|grc|ἀκούω|tr=akoúō|t=to hear]];^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary) the word was proposed by the mathematician and physicist Joseph Sauveur (1653–1716).^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(GLLF 1989) Wiktionary takes it through [[la-new|acousticus]].^(Wiktionary) Rey notes that “akouein” was long explained as a compound of “ous” “ear”, but is now rather linked with “koein” “to perceive” and [[la|caveō|t=to beware]].^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In 1700 it appears in the ''Histoire de l'Académie des sciences'' as the name of the science of sound, alongside optics, and at the same time as an adjective;^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Furetière (1701) has ''nerf'' and ''conduit acoustique''.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The adjective was first used in medicine, of remedies for deafness, and in anatomy (''nerf acoustique'').^(DHLF 1992) From 1752 it described instruments aiding hearing, as in ''cornet acoustique'' (1762) and ''tuyau acoustique'', and places that carry sound well.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989) At the end of the 19th century the noun came to mean the acoustics of a room.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989) ''Acousticien'' dates from 1826.^(DHLF 1992) A ''guitare acoustique'' is one that is not electric.^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1700 – The noun and adjective, in Sauveur's work for the Académie des sciences.^(TLFi)

+ * 1701 – ''Nerf acoustique'' in Furetière.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1752 – Of hearing aids.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1762 – ''Cornet acoustique''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1826 – ''Acousticien''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * Late 19th century – The acoustics of a room.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|acoustic|alt=Acoustic]], of hearing: ''nerf acoustique''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # Aiding hearing or carrying sound: ''cornet acoustique'', ''tuyau acoustique''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # Of sound: ''ondes acoustiques'', ''isolation acoustique''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Le Robert)

+ # Of an instrument, not amplified: ''guitare acoustique''.^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(feminine)'' [[m|en|acoustics|alt=Acoustics]], the science of sound.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''(feminine)'' The acoustics of a place: ''la salle a une bonne acoustique''.^(GLLF 1989)^(Larousse)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[acousticien]]

+ * [[acoustiquement]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[acousmatique]]

+ * [[grc|ἀκούω|tr=akoúō]]

+ * [[en|acoustic]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}