grand-père French · revision 16580

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=12th century|origins=fr grand, fr père}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɡʁɑ̃.pɛʁ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''grand-père''' ''m'' (plural grands-pères)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|fr|grand|père]], with “grand” in its old sense “aged”, which [[la|grandis]] already had in “grandis natu”.^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005) Bloch and Wartburg date it from the 12th century, like “grand-mère”; the TLFi's first dated example is from 1529.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The FEW and the Grand Robert date the word to the 12th century, in the sense of the father's or mother's father.^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Grand-père and the other kinship compounds in ''grand-'' gradually replaced [[aïeul]], which is now literary.^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) The familiar sense “old man” is recorded in Littré (1866).^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 12th century – First recorded.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1529 – Dated example in the archives of the Nord.^(TLFi)

+ * 1866 – “Old man”, Littré.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|grandfather]]: the father of one's father or mother, ''grand-père paternel'', ''maternel''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(familiar)'' An old man.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[grand-mère]]

+ * [[grand]]

+ * [[père]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The plural is ''grands-pères''.^(TLFi)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}