aussitôt French · revision 16561

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /o.si.to/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aussitôt''' (invariable)^(Wiktionary)

+ ''Aussi tost com'' (about 1260), ''aussi tost que'' (about 1330); written as one word from Du Bellay.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ Older spellings ''aussitost'', ''aussi-tôt''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|fr|aussi|tôt]].^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Littré 1873)^(Wiktionary) [[tôt]] continues popular Latin “tostum”, the neuter of [[la|tostus|t=roasted, burnt]] used as an adverb, which must first have meant “hotly”, hence “promptly”.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(FEW|13/2, 119b)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Bloch and Wartburg date ''aussi tost com'' “as soon as” to about 1260.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Aussi tost que'' is found about 1330, and the adverb written as one word from Du Bellay in the 16th century.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Littré 1873) Montaigne has ''aussi tost qu'il y a tant soit peu d'apparence'', and Du Bellay ''Il est parfaict aussi tost que conceu''.^(Littré 1873) In classical French ''aussitôt que'' could also mean “as quickly as” (Fénelon) or “as well as” (Saint-Simon).^(GLLF 1989) The use as a preposition, ''aussitôt la lettre reçue'', is accepted by Littré but criticized by some grammarians.^(GLLF 1989)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1260 – ''Aussi tost com''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * c. 1330 – ''Aussi tost que''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 16th century – ''Aussitôt'' as one word, Du Bellay.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|immediately]], at once, straight away: ''il est accouru aussitôt'', ''aussitôt après'', ''aussitôt dit, aussitôt fait''.^(Larousse)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ===Conjunction===

+ # ''Aussitôt que'': as soon as: ''aussitôt qu'il fut parti''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ===Preposition===

+ # Immediately after: ''aussitôt son arrivée'', ''aussitôt la lettre reçue''.^(GLLF 1989)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sitôt]]

+ * [[bientôt]]

+ * [[plutôt]]

+ * [[tantôt]]

+ * [[tôt]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}