sentiment French · revision 16516

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=late 12th century, Sermons de saint Bernard (sentement)|origins=la sentiō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /sɑ̃.ti.mɑ̃/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sentiment''' ''m'' (plural sentiments)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French [[m|fro|sentement]] (about 1190), surviving until the 16th century, ''sentiment'' from 1314 (Henri de Mondeville).^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a remaking of Old French “sentement”, [[af|fr|sentir|-ment]].^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007) [[sentir]] is from [[la|sentiō|t=to perceive, feel]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Wiktionary derives “sentement” from Medieval Latin “sentimentum”.^(Wiktionary)

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+ Compare [[pro|sentiment]], [[es|sentimiento]] and [[it|sentimento]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In the late 12th-century ''Sermons de saint Bernard'' ''sentement'' is the faculty of receiving physical impressions, sensation; the same century's ''Sermons de saint Grégoire'' use it for knowledge, being aware of something.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the Middle Ages and the 16th century it also meant sensation and the senses (''perdre le sentement'', late 13th century; smell, 1542–59, still a hunting term; taste, 1572), and intelligence, opinion and science (late 14th century).^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007) ''Au sentiment de'' “in the opinion of” is in Molière (1659).^(GLLF 1989) From 1279 it named any emotion, and by the late 13th century love: a ''chanson de sentement'' is a love song.^(TLFi) The 17th and 18th centuries added goodwill (Corneille, 1643), the artist's sensitivity (Fénelon) and ''le sentiment'', the affective side of man (Marivaux, 1741).^(TLFi) In 1799 a ''sentiment'' was also a bracelet of plaited hair worn as a keepsake.^(BHVF)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1190 – ''Sentement'' “sensation”, ''Sermons de saint Bernard''.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1279 – An emotion.^(TLFi)

+ * 1314 – The form ''sentiment'', Henri de Mondeville.^(TLFi)

+ * 1381 – “Opinion”, Eustache Deschamps.^(TLFi)

+ * 1580 – ''Ressentiment''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1741 – ''Le sentiment'', the affective life, Marivaux.^(TLFi)

+ * 1799 – A hair bracelet.^(BHVF)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|feeling]], emotion: ''un sentiment de joie'', ''des sentiments sincères''.^(Larousse)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A sense, impression: ''avoir le sentiment que'', ''un sentiment de solitude''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # Feelings, love: ''déclarer ses sentiments'', ''prendre par les sentiments'', to appeal to someone's heart.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A sense, an appreciation: ''le sentiment de la nature'', ''le sentiment du devoir accompli''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(literary)'' An [[m|en|opinion]], view: ''je ne partage pas votre sentiment''.^(Larousse)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''Le sentiment'': emotion as opposed to reason; sentimentality: ''faire du sentiment''.^(GLLF 1989)^(Larousse)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[sentimental]]

+ * [[sentimentalité]]

+ * [[sentimentalisme]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sentir]]

+ * [[ressentiment]]

+ * [[sens]]

+ * [[sensation]]

+ * [[senteur]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}