lamper French · revision 16062

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /lɑ̃.pe/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lamper'''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a nasalised form of [[laper|t=to lap]],^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(FEW|5, 174b) itself of imitative origin.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Rey thinks the word was influenced by [[lampe]], used slightly later for the stomach that receives a liquid (''s'en mettre plein la lampe'').^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The first record is the exclamation ''lampons !'' “let's drink!” in ''Le Nouveau Siècle de Louis XIV'' (1642);^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005) Bloch and Wartburg date the verb to 1655 (Pierre Borel).^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ At first familiar for “to drink greedily”, as ''laper'' had once been for people, ''lamper'' is now cut off from ''laper'' in feeling.^(DHLF 1992) It means to drink at a gulp or in great draughts (Balzac's clerk ''lampant un neuvième verre de vin de Champagne''), and figuratively to swallow up.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989) The noun ''lampée'' “gulp” dates from 1678.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(DHLF 1992) In Mauritian French ''lamper'' and ''lampeur'' mean “to get drunk” and “drunkard”.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1642 – ''Lampons !''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1655 – ''Lamper'' in Borel.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1678 – ''Lampée''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1694 – In the Académie.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(familiar)'' To gulp down, [[m|en|swig]]: ''lamper un verre de vin''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To swallow up.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[lampée]]

+ * [[lampée]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[laper]]

+ * [[lampe]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Littré records a separate sailors' ''lamper'', from [[lampe]], said of a phosphorescent sea: ''la mer lampe''.^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}