blasé French · revision 16035

+ {{infobox|confidence=uncertain|formation=derivation|attested=1743, Trévoux}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /bla.ze/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA: /blɑ.ze/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''blasé''' (feminine blasée, masculine plural blasés, feminine plural blasées)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the past participle of [[blaser]] used as an adjective.^(GLLF 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(DHLF 1992)^(Wiktionary) The verb (about 1650; 1608 in Régnier according to Bloch and Wartburg) is a Germanic word of the Picard area, compare Rouchi and Walloon “blasé” “pale or bloated from drink”.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(FEW|15/1, 151a) Bloch and Wartburg take it from [[dum|blāsen|t=to swell]], the first sense being “bloated with drink”, Rey doubts a Dutch borrowing, since modern [[nl|blazen]] means only “to blow”, and finds a Provençal “blazir” “to wither”, from Frankish “*blâsjan” “to burn”, difficult in form and geography.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(DHLF 1992) Wiktionary gives Middle Dutch “blâsen” “to blow, brag”, compare [[de|blasen]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Trévoux (1743) records the adjective;^(GLLF 1989) the verb first meant “to wear out with strong liquor”, a sense admitted by the Académie in 1740 and still in Saint-Simon.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In 1762 the verb took its figurative sense, “to dull the senses by excess”, and the reflexive ''se blaser'' is in Sade (1785).^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) The adjective, more common than the verb, describes someone who thinks he has exhausted all experience and takes pleasure in nothing (''blasé sur tout''), and is used as a noun from 1817 (''faire le blasé'').^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007) ''Blasement'' (1835) is literary and rare.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1608 – ''Blaser'' in Régnier.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1740 – ''Blaser'' “to wear out with liquor” in the Académie.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1743 – ''Blasé'' in Trévoux.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1762 – The figurative sense.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1785 – ''Se blaser'' in Sade.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1817 – As a noun.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1835 – ''Blasement''.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|blasé|alt=Blasé]], jaded, indifferent: ''être blasé de tout''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A blasé person: ''faire le blasé''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[blaser]]

+ * [[blasement]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|blasé]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}