répéter French · revision 16479

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1210, Raoul de Houdenc, Meraugis|origins=la petō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ʁe.pe.te/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''répéter'''^(Wiktionary)

+ Spelled ''repeter'' by the Académie in 1694 and 1718, ''répéter'' since 1740.^(TLFi)

+ An Old French popular form, [[m|fro|repeïr]], meant to read a psalm a second time (about 1200).^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|repetō|t=to seek again; to resume; to recall; to claim back]], from [[m|la|re-]] and [[m|la|petō|t=to seek to reach, to ask for]] (compare [[pétition]]).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(FEW|10, 266a) Wiktionary takes it as inherited, through Old French “repeter”.^(Wiktionary)

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+ Cognate with [[pro|repetir]], [[es|repetir]] and [[it|ripetere]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first record, in Raoul de Houdenc's ''Meraugis'' (about 1210), has the sense “to say again”, which is still its main one.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Like the Latin verb it meant “to claim back” from about 1360, a sense that survives in law for reclaiming what one has paid or lent (1626).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) ''Répéter une leçon'' “to revise” is in Palsgrave (1530); in the theatre, to rehearse is in Molière's ''Impromptu de Versailles'' (1663).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) It meant to do again what one had done (La Fontaine, 1682), to coach pupils in a teacher's lesson (1660), and, pejoratively, to pass on what one has heard (1798).^(TLFi) The reflexive ''se répéter'', to use the same turns of phrase, is in Fontenelle (1693).^(TLFi) In mountaineering, to repeat a climb is recorded from 1903.^(BHVF)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1200 – Popular Old French ''repeïr''.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1210 – ''Repeter'' “to say again”, ''Meraugis''.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1360 – “To claim back”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1530 – ''Répéter une leçon'', Palsgrave.^(TLFi)

+ * 1663 – Rehearsing a play, Molière.^(TLFi)

+ * 1682 – “To do again”, La Fontaine.^(TLFi)

+ * 1693 – ''Se répéter'', Fontenelle.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|repeat]], say again (what one or another has said): ''je vous répète que c'est impossible''.^(Le Robert)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # To pass on, report (what one has heard).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # To do again; to reproduce: ''répéter une expérience''.^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # To [[m|en|rehearse]] (a play, a piece); to go over (a lesson).^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

+ # ''Se répéter'': to repeat oneself; to happen again.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

+ # ''(law)'' To claim back.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[répétition]]

+ * [[répéteur]]

+ * [[répétiteur]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pétition]]

+ * [[la|repetō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}