carrousel French · revision 16012

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=borrowing|attested=1596, Blaise de Vigenère|origins=nap carusello}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ka.ʁu.zɛl/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA: /ka.ʁu.sɛl/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''carrousel'''^(Wiktionary)

+ ''Carrouselles'' (1596), ''carrousel'' (1620).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|nap|carusello]] ([[it|carosello]]), the name of a game of Moorish origin brought to Naples by the Spaniards in the 16th century (about 1580, Sassetti),^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005) in which two teams of horsemen threw chalk balls shaped like heads at each other: a special use of “carus(i)ello”, a head-shaped clay money box, from “caruso” “shaven head”.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Rey derives “caruso” from Latin “carosius” “carious, scabby”, from [[la|cariēs]] (see [[carie]]).^(DHLF 1992) The double ⟨rr⟩ comes from association with [[carrosse]], through the shared idea of horses.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ Littré took Italian “garosello” from “garoso” “quarrelsome”, and Guiraud, quoted by the Grand Robert, compared French “carrousse” “revelry”.^(Littré 1873)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Blaise de Vigenère's ''Tableaux de Philostrate'' (1596) speaks of ''carrouselles practiquees en Espagne a la genette'', tournaments ridden in the Spanish fashion, ''carrousel'' is recorded in 1620, from the father of Pierre-Daniel Huet.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a tournament or parade in which teams of horsemen performed figures and games (''un carrousel vis-à-vis les Tuileries'', 1662, in Voltaire), and in 1740 the place where one was held (''la place du Carrousel'' in Paris).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989) By analogy it became a merry-go-round (''Journal officiel'', 5 May 1870), a sense now used in Belgium, Switzerland, northern France and Quebec.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ Figuratively it is a rapid succession or whirl (''un carrousel d'avions'', ''le carrousel ministériel'').^(GLLF 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse) After English it names an airport baggage carousel, and in technology a circular conveyor or slide tray.^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1580 – Neapolitan ''carusello''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1596 – ''Carrouselles'' in Vigenère.^(TLFi)

+ * 1620 – ''Carrousel''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1740 – The place of a carousel, in the Académie.^(TLFi)

+ * 5 May 1870 – A merry-go-round.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|carousel]], equestrian parade or tournament.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # The ground where it is held: ''la place du Carrousel''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''(Belgium, Switzerland, Canada)'' A [[m|en|merry-go-round]].^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # ''(figurative)'' A whirl, rapid succession: ''le carrousel ministériel''.^(Larousse)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # ''(technology)'' A circular conveyor; a baggage carousel; a slide tray.^(Larousse)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[carrosse]]

+ * [[carie]]

+ * [[en|carousel]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}