demeurer French · revision 16622

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 1050, Vie de saint Alexis (demorer)|origins=la mora}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /də.mœ.ʁe/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA: /də.mø.ʁe/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''demeurer'''^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French ''demorer'' (about 1050), ''demurer'', ''demourer'' (until the 16th century); ''demeurer'' from 1176–1184, after the forms stressed on the stem.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|la-vul|*dēmorō|alt=*demorare]], for classical [[m|la|dēmoror|t=to delay, linger; to hold back]], from [[m|la|dē-]] and [[m|la|moror|t=to delay]], from [[m|la|mora|t=delay]] (see [[moratoire]]).^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(GLLF 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(FEW|3, 38a) The TLFi and Rey describe it as borrowed from Latin.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) The sense “to stay, live” must have developed in late Latin, since [[it|dimorare]] and [[pro|demorar]] have it too.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ Old French [[m|fro|demorer]] also gave [[en|demur]] in the 13th century.^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The ''Vie de saint Alexis'' (about 1050) uses ''demorer'' for “to delay”, and in the ''Chanson de Roland'' (about 1100) ''Li Arabiz de venir ne demurent'' “the Arabs are not slow to come”; the Roland also has it for staying where one is.^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The sense “to delay” faded in the 16th century, while “to stay” and, from before 1200, “to reside” spread.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi) The noun ''demorant'' “what remains” (1349) left the phrase ''au demeurant'' “after all”, used since Commynes.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) The past participle ''demeuré'' became a noun for a mentally backward person in 1919.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ The noun [[demeure]] kept the old sense “delay” in ''il y a péril en la demeure'' (1690), often misunderstood today, and in legal ''mettre en demeure''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1050 – ''Demorer'' “to delay”, ''Vie de saint Alexis''.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1100 – “To stay”, ''Chanson de Roland''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1176–1184 – The form ''demeurer'', Gautier d'Arras.^(TLFi)

+ * before 1200 – “To reside”.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1464 – ''Au demeurant'', Commynes.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1919 – ''Un demeuré''.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To live, reside: ''il demeure à Paris'' (with ''avoir'').^(Wiktionary)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # ''(formal)'' To remain, stay (with ''être''): ''demeurer immobile'', ''il est demeuré fidèle''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To last, persist: ''le souvenir demeure''.^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''En demeurer là'': to leave it at that.^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # ''Au demeurant'': for all that, after all.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[demeure]]

+ * [[demeuré]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[moratoire]]

+ * [[la|dēmoror]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}