côté French · revision 16356

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 1100, Chanson de Roland (costet)|origins=la costa}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ko.te/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''côté''' ''m'' (plural côtés)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French ''costet'', ''costé''; the Académie wrote ''costé'' in 1694 and 1718, ''côté'' from 1740.^(GLLF 1989)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|fro|costé]], [[inh|la-vul|*costātum]], a derivative of [[m|la|costa|t=rib; side]], the source of [[côte]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Wiktionary) The Vulgar Latin form is reconstructed from its Romance outcomes and is made likely by the classical adjective [[m|la|costātus]], used by Varro of oxen “with good ribs”, that is, strong.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ Classical Latin used [[m|la|latus]] for “side”; its Old French outcome “lez” was displaced by “côté” in the 15th century.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Cognate with [[pro|costat]], [[ca|costat]], [[es|costado]] and [[it|costato]].^(Littré 1873)^(Wiktionary)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ About 1100 the ''Chanson de Roland'' uses it for the side of the chest and of the whole body: ''Ma bonne espée que ai ceinte al costet'' “my good sword that I have girded at my side”.^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The bodily sense lived until the 17th century and survives in ''point de côté'', a stitch.^(DHLF 1992) From about 1260 it named the side of a thing, and in the 13th century the side of a geometrical figure.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Froissart used it for one part of something as against another (second half of the 14th century), and in 1409 it meant a party or faction.^(TLFi) La Rochefoucauld used it for an aspect of something (1664).^(TLFi)

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+ Phrases followed: ''de costé'' for collateral inheritance (1283), ''à côté'' (1580), ''à côté de'' (1690), ''regarder de côté'' (1690) and ''laisser de côté'' (1787).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) In the theatre ''côté cour'' and ''côté jardin'' are the right and left of the stage.^(DHLF 1992) Colloquially it is used as a preposition: ''côté santé'', “as for health”.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1100 – ''Costet'', the side of the body, in the ''Chanson de Roland''.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1260 – The side of a thing, in Rutebeuf.^(TLFi)

+ * 1283 – ''De costé'', of collateral inheritance, in Beaumanoir.^(TLFi)

+ * 1409 – The sense “party, faction”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1580 – ''À costé'' in Montaigne.^(TLFi)

+ * 1664 – The sense “aspect” in La Rochefoucauld.^(TLFi)

+ * 1787 – ''Laisser de côté'' in Féraud.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The [[m|en|side]] of the body: ''avoir mal au côté'', ''point de côté'', a [[m|en|stitch]].^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi)

+ # The side of a thing, as opposed to the middle: ''les deux côtés de la route''.^(Larousse)

+ # ''(geometry)'' A side of a figure.^(TLFi)

+ # An [[m|en|aspect]] of something: ''le bon côté des choses''.^(TLFi)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A direction, part: ''du côté de la gare'', ''de mon côté'', as for me.^(Wiktionary)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # A party, camp: ''être du côté de quelqu'un''.^(TLFi)

+ # ''À côté'', ''à côté de'': nearby, next to, ''mettre de côté'', to put aside.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

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+ ===Preposition===

+ # ''(colloquial)'' As for, in terms of: ''côté travail, tout va bien''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[côte]]

+ * [[coteau]]

+ * [[latéral]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}