uniforme French · revision 16002

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1370, Nicole Oresme|origins=la ūnifōrmis}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /y.ni.fɔʁm/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''uniforme''' (plural uniformes)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is borrowed from [[la|ūnifōrmis|t=simple, of one form]], a word of the imperial period,^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(FEW|14, 43a) compounded of [[la|ūnus|t=one]] (see [[un]]) and [[la|fōrma|t=form]] (see [[forme]]).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) “Uniformité” was borrowed at the same time from Latin “uniformitas”.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Oresme's translation of Aristotle's ''De caelo'' (about 1370) has ''le mouvement est uniforme'', motion without variation;^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) the Grand Robert and Petit Robert date ''mouvement uniforme'' in Oresme to 1361.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In 1459 it described what has the same form, and in the classical period it meant “concordant, unanimous” (Retz, 1657) and “unanimously accepted” (1680), senses now gone.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Boileau (1674) used it for what is always the same and shows no diversity, a sense still alive (''une vie uniforme'').^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ The adjective was used in ''habit uniforme'' (about 1700, Saint-Simon; 1718) for dress prescribed for a military unit, and the noun ''uniforme'' replaced it (1709, ''uniforme du régiment'', 1759).^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) By extension it named compulsory dress for any group (1750), and the military uniform stood for the army (1817).^(DHLF 1992) ''Uniformiser'' dates from 1728 and ''uniformisation'' from 1824.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1370 – ''Mouvement uniforme'' in Oresme.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1380 – ''Uniformeement''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1459 – “Of the same form”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1657 – “Unanimous”, in Retz.^(TLFi)

+ * 1674 – Boileau's ''stile uniforme''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1709 – The noun ''uniforme''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1728 – ''Uniformiser''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1750 – Dress for a non-military group.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1817 – ''L'uniforme'' “the army”.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|uniform|alt=Uniform]], alike, with all parts the same: ''des immeubles uniformes''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # Unvarying, monotonous: ''une vie uniforme'', ''un ciel uniforme et gris''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''(physics)'' ''Mouvement uniforme'': uniform motion.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A uniform: ''l'uniforme scolaire'', ''en uniforme''.^(Wiktionary)^(Larousse)

+ # ''(figurative)'' Military life, the army: ''endosser, quitter l'uniforme''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Larousse)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[uniformément]]

+ * [[uniformiser]]

+ * [[uniformisation]]

+ * [[uniformité]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[un]]

+ * [[forme]]

+ * [[la|ūnifōrmis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}