visite French · revision 16551

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=back-formation|attested=1350, ordinance (inspection)|origins=la visitō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /vi.zit/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Quebec): /vi.zɪt/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''visite''' ''f'' (plural visites)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a deverbal noun [[der|fr|visiter|t=to visit]].^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary) “Visiter” (1130) was borrowed from [[la|visitō|t=to go to see; to visit]], and in the Middle Ages was used above all in religious and legal language.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ An ordinance of 1350 has ''en toutes sortes de marchandises et en tous mestiers il y aura visite'', an inspection, an examination; the Grand Robert dates it to 1556, in the sense “search”.^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Montaigne (1580) uses it for going to see a place, ''la visite des pays estrangers'', and for going to see a person, ''visites estrangieres''.^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873) The tour of inspection of a bishop or a religious superior is recorded by Monet (1636), and Furetière (1690) has the visits of the sick, of prisoners and of doctors.^(TLFi) ''Rendre visite à quelqu'un'' is in d'Aubigné, the ''carte de visite'' in 1785, and ''une visite'' for the person visiting in Marivaux (1740).^(GLLF 1989)^(TLFi) The ''visite domiciliaire'', a police search of a house, dates from 1790, and the customs ''visite'' from 1723.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1350 – An inspection.^(TLFi)

+ * 1556 – A search.^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 1580 – Visiting a place; visiting a person, Montaigne.^(TLFi)

+ * 1636 – A bishop's visitation.^(TLFi)

+ * 1690 – A doctor's visit, Furetière.^(TLFi)

+ * 1740 – A visitor, Marivaux.^(TLFi)

+ * 1785 – ''Carte de visite''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1790 – ''Visite domiciliaire''.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|visit]] to someone: ''rendre visite à quelqu'un'', ''une visite de politesse'', ''carte de visite''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # A visitor, visitors: ''avoir de la visite''.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # A visit to a place: ''la visite d'un musée'', ''visite guidée''.^(TLFi)^(Larousse)

+ # A doctor's call or examination: ''visite médicale''.^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # An inspection, a search: ''visite de douane'', ''droit de visite''.^(GLLF 1989)^(TLFi)

+ # An official visit: ''la visite du président''.^(Larousse)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[contre-visite]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[visiter]]

+ * [[visiteur]]

+ * [[visitation]]

+ * [[voir]]

+ * [[la|visitō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}