revenir French · revision 16320

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=2nd half of the 10th century, Vie de saint Léger|origins=la veniō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ʁə.v(ə).niʁ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''revenir'''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|fro|revenir]], [[inh|la|reveniō|t=to come back, return]], formed with [[m|la|re-]] from [[m|la|veniō|t=to come]] (see [[venir]]).^(Wiktionary)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(GLLF 1989)^(FEW|10, 350b) Rey treats it as a very early borrowing from Latin, and the Grand Robert as a French formation from “re-” and “venir”.^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005) Late Latin also used “revenire” of property “falling to” someone (730).^(DHLF 1992)

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+ Compare [[it|rivenire]] and [[es|revenir]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in the second half of the 10th century in the ''Vie de saint Léger'': King Chilperic sends word to Leodegar ''que revenist'' “that he should come back”.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From the first texts it meant “to come again” and “to return to one's starting point” (about 1050), and ''revenir à'' “to take up again” a subject one had left (about 1050).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) ''Revenir de pasmeisuns'' “to come round from a faint” is in the ''Chanson de Roland'', ''revenir à soi'' dates from the late 13th century, and ''n'en pas revenir'' “to be amazed” from 1664 (Molière).^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989) Of the spirits of the dead it is used from 1559, whence [[revenant]] (1690).^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ With a thing as subject it means “to reappear” (about 1174), “to cost” and “to fall to” someone, and figuratively ''revenir sur'' means “to reconsider, go back on” (1762).^(DHLF 1992) ''S'en revenir'' is archaic in France but common in rural speech and in Quebec French.^(DHLF 1992) The noun [[revenu]] dates from 1320.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 2nd half of the 10th century – ''Revenist'' in the ''Vie de saint Léger''.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1050 – ''Revenir a'' “to come back to” a subject, in the ''Vie de saint Alexis''.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1100 – ''Revenir de pasmeisuns'' in the ''Chanson de Roland''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1320 – ''Revenu'' “income”.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1559 – Of ghosts, in Amyot.^(TLFi)

+ * 1643 – ''Revenir sur ses pas'' in Corneille.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1664 – ''N'en pouvoir revenir'' in Molière's ''Tartuffe''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1690 – ''Revenant'' “ghost”.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To come back, [[m|en|return]]: ''revenir chez soi'', ''Je reviens tout de suite.''^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To come again: ''Le médecin reviendra demain.''^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # To recur, reappear: ''Le beau temps revient''; to come back to mind: ''Son nom me revient.''^(Wiktionary)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''Revenir à'': to return to (a subject); to amount to: ''Cela revient au même''; to cost: ''Ça revient cher.''^(DHLF 1992)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''Revenir à'': to fall to, be due to: ''Cette décision lui revient.''^(Wiktionary)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''Revenir de'': to recover from, ''n'en pas revenir'', to be amazed.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''Revenir sur'': to go back on, [[m|en|reconsider]] (a decision).^(Wiktionary)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''Revenir à soi'': to come round.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''(cooking)'' ''Faire revenir'': to [[m|en|brown]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[revenant]]

+ * [[revenu]]

+ * [[revenez-y]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[venir]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}