installer French · revision 16515

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1349|origins=frk *stal}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɛ̃s.ta.le/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''installer'''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la-med|īnstallō|alt=installāre|t=to install (a cleric) in his stall]], formed in the 13th century from [[m|la|in-]] and [[m|la-med|stallum|t=stall]], itself from [[frk|*stal|t=position, place]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|17, 208b) Taking possession of a church dignity gave the right to a stall in the choir.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) French [[stalle]] and [[étal]] belong to the same Germanic family.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ [[en|install]] (early 15th century) is from Old French “installer” or directly from the Medieval Latin.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first record, in the 1349 statutes of the order of Saint George (in a 17th-century copy), means to establish someone officially in office, Nicolas de Baye's journal (1403) has the same sense.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the 16th century it was extended to other office-holders (Amyot), and, from 1596 to putting something in its place.^(Littré 1873)^(TLFi) ''S'installer'' first meant, pejoratively, to settle in at someone else's home (1690); Rousseau (1770) uses ''installer'' for settling someone in a place to live, and Marat (1790) for putting someone in the post they are to hold.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) From 1857 it meant to fit an appliance, and in 1867 to fit out a house, ''installé'' “comfortably established” dates from 1936.^(TLFi) In computing it means to install software, whence ''désinstaller'' (1987).^(DHLF 1992) The slang ''en installer'' “to show off” (1888, 1917) is of unclear development.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1349 – To install in office.^(TLFi)

+ * 1349 – ''Installation''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1581 – ''Réinstaller''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1596 – To put something in place.^(TLFi)

+ * 1690 – ''S'installer'', Furetière.^(TLFi)

+ * 1857 – To fit an appliance.^(TLFi)

+ * 1936 – ''Installé'' “well established”, Martin du Gard.^(TLFi)

+ * 1987 – ''Désinstaller''.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|install]], put in, fit: ''installer le chauffage'', ''installer un logiciel''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To put, place, settle (someone): ''installer un malade dans son lit''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''S'installer'': to settle, settle in; to move in: ''s'installer à la campagne'', ''s'installer dans un fauteuil''.^(Wiktionary)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # To fit out (a place): ''installer un appartement''.^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # To install (someone) in office: ''installer un évêque''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[installation]]

+ * [[installateur]]

+ * [[réinstaller]]

+ * [[désinstaller]]

+ * [[installé]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[stalle]]

+ * [[étal]]

+ * [[en|install]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}