année French · revision 16383

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 1170 (anée)|origins=la annus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /a.ne/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''année''' ''f'' (plural années)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French ''anee'', ''anée''.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Littré 1873)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is derived from [[an]] with the suffix “-ée”, or continues a popular Latin [[la-vul|*annāta]] “a year's length”, from [[la|annus|t=year]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(GLLF 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|24, 623a) The Grand Robert derives it from “an”, while Bloch and Wartburg, the GLLF and the Petit Robert allow a Latin “*annāta”, which [[it|annata]] and [[pro|anada]] would support.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(GLLF 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found about 1170 as ''anée''.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(DHLF 1992) In the 13th century ''Berte aus grans piés'' has ''Ains qu'ele i eüst mes anée ne demie'' “before she had stayed there a year or a half”.^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Année'' named the time of the Earth's revolution, with a socially fixed start, and, from the 16th century a period of twelve months.^(DHLF 1992) It gradually replaced [[an]] in many phrases: ''année civile'' (1671), ''année grégorienne'' (1680), ''d'année en année'' (1694) for ''d'an en an'', and ''bonne année'' (1771) for ''bon an''.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ Of age it is used in ''jeunes années'' (Corneille) and ''le poids des années'' (1824).^(DHLF 1992) Where content matters, ''année'' is preferred: a financial year (1669), a year of study (''première année'', 1835), and the title of yearbooks (''L'Année littéraire'', 1754).^(DHLF 1992) ''Les années vingt'' and similar names for decades date from the 20th century.^(BHVF) In Quebec ''à l'année longue'' means “all year round”.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1170 – ''Anée''.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 16th century – ''Année lunaire''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1671 – ''Année civile''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1694 – ''D'année en année''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1754 – ''L'Année littéraire''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1771 – ''Bonne année''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1877 – ''Année de lumière''.^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|year]], seen as a period of time or as a unit of a calendar: ''l'année dernière'', ''bonne année !''^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(astronomy)'' The time of a revolution of the Earth or a planet round the Sun: ''année solaire'', ''année-lumière''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # A year of activity or study: ''année scolaire'', ''en deuxième année''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''Les années'': age, time: ''le poids des années'', ''les années vingt'', the twenties.^(DHLF 1992)^(BHVF)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[an]]

+ * [[annuel]]

+ * [[anniversaire]]

+ * [[la|annus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}