rendez-vous French · revision 16620

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ʁɑ̃.de.vu/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rendez-vous''' ''m'' (invariable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the imperative “rendez-vous” “betake yourselves (to such a place)” used as a noun, from [[rendre]] in its reflexive sense “se rendre” “to go” and the pronoun [[vous]].^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)^(Wiktionary)^(Littré 1873) It passed into [[en|rendezvous]] in the 1590s, first a place appointed for the assembling of troops, from the wording of orders.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The Grand Robert and the Petit Robert date it from 1578; in Du Monin's ''Uranologie'' (1583–1584) it is the place where people have agreed to meet.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ D'Aubigné writes ''ils se donnerent des rendez-vous en des lieux esgarez'' “they made appointments in out-of-the-way places”.^(Littré 1873) The meeting itself is recorded in Nicot (1606) and in 1612, when the Bohemians are said to give each other a ''rendez-vous'' every ten days.^(GLLF 1989)^(TLFi) It was used of ships from 1696, and La Bruyère (before 1696) applies it to a place where people habitually meet.^(GLLF 1989) The 20th century added ''rendez-vous spatial'' (1967), the docking of spacecraft.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1578 – First record.^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 1583–1584 – A meeting place, Du Monin.^(TLFi)

+ * 1606 – The meeting itself, Nicot.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1696 – A rendezvous of ships.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1967 – ''Rendez-vous spatial''.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|appointment]], a meeting arranged in advance: ''prendre rendez-vous'', ''avoir rendez-vous chez le médecin''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|date]]: ''rendez-vous galant''.^(Wiktionary)

+ # A meeting place: ''un rendez-vous de chasseurs''.^(GLLF 1989)^(TLFi)

+ # ''(figurative)'' ''Être au rendez-vous'': to be there as expected, ''avoir rendez-vous avec la chance''.^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # ''Rendez-vous spatial'': a space rendezvous, docking.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rendre]]

+ * [[en|rendezvous]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}