arrêter French · revision 16290

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=1080, Chanson de Roland|origins=la stō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Europe): /a.ʁɛ.te/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Europe): /a.ʁe.te/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Quebec): /a.ʁɛː.te/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Louisiana): [a.re.te]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''arrêter'''^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French [[m|fro|arester]], Middle French [[m|frm|arrester]].^(Wiktionary)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|fro|arester]], [[inh|la-vul|*arrestō|t=to stop]], formed with [[m|la|ad-]] from [[m|la|restō|t=to stay, stand still]] (see [[rester]]), itself from [[m|la|stō|t=to stand]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|25, 304b) Littré rejects a derivation from German “Rest” or “Rast” “rest”, and notes that Old French sometimes conjugated the verb irregularly (“arresteü”, “arestut”), as the Latin “stāre” was conjugated.^(Littré 1873)

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+ Cognate with [[it|arrestare]], [[pro|arestar]] and [[es|arrestar]]; compare [[en|arrest]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Littré 1873)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found at the end of the 11th century, intransitively, in the sense “to stop moving”.^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From the 11th and 12th centuries the verb was both transitive and intransitive; until the 17th century it was often intransitive.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Intransitive ''arrêter'' meant “to stop”, then “to stay” and “to come to an end” (12th century).^(DHLF 1992) As a transitive verb it meant “to stop (someone, a vehicle, an animal)” (12th century) and, also in the 12th century, “to seize, capture”, the sense behind [[arrestation]] (1370, remade from Old French ''arestaison'').^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ “To suspend (an activity)” dates from about 1500 and ''arrêter les frais'' from 1867.^(DHLF 1992) In abstract use it meant “to fix (one's mind, one's choice)” and “to decide” (late 14th century), as in ''arrêter une date'', which is behind [[arrêté]] (1414).^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) ''S'arrêter à'' “to dwell on” is recorded in 1370 and ''s'arrêter de'' with an infinitive in 1575; intransitive ''arrêter de'' has been revived in the same sense.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1080 – Intransitive ''arester'' “to stop”.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 12th century – Transitive “to stop”, and “to seize, arrest”.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 12th century – The noun ''arrêt''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1370 – ''Arrestation'' and ''s'arrêter à''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * Late 14th century – “To decide, settle”.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1414 – ''Arrêté''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1575 – ''S'arrêter de'' + infinitive.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1690 – ''Arrêter un point'' in sewing.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|stop|alt=stop]] someone or something moving: ''arrêter un passant'', ''arrêter sa voiture''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # To stop, switch off (a machine): ''Arrête la radio.''^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # To put an end to, halt: ''arrêter une hémorragie''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # Intransitive: to stop, ''arrêter de'' + infinitive, to stop doing: ''Il n'arrête pas de parler.''^(Wiktionary)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # To [[m|en|arrest]]: ''La police a arrêté le voleur.''^(Wiktionary)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # To fix, settle, decide: ''arrêter une date''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''S'arrêter'': to stop, halt, ''s'arrêter à'', to dwell on.^(Wiktionary)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''(needlework)'' To fasten off (a stitch).^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''(Louisiana)'' To wait.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[arrestation]]

+ * [[arrêt]]

+ * [[arrêté]]

+ * [[arrête-bœuf]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[arrêtable]]

+ * [[rester]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}