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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=1306, Guillaume Guiart (deusiesme)|origins=la duo}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA: /dø.zjɛm/^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''deuxième''' (plural deuxièmes)^(Wiktionary)
+ ''Deusiesme'' (1306), ''deusime'' (1319–40, Watriquet de Couvin).^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873)
+
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is formed [[af|fr|deux|-ième]].^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary) That numeral comes from [[la|duo|t=two]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Guillaume Guiart's ''Royaux lignages'' (1306) has ''deusiesme'' as an ordinal; the ''Chanson de Bertrand du Guesclin'' (14th century) has ''lui deuxieme'' “with one other”.^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ As a noun it is recorded by Richelet (1680), or in 1665 according to the GLLF, and used by La Fontaine.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989) ''Le deuxième'' is also the second floor of a house (1870, Larousse) and a regiment (''le deuxième hussards'', Balzac).^(GLLF 1989)^(BHVF) Soldiers speak of ''un deuxième classe'', a private.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989) Littré called “quite arbitrary” the rule by which ''deuxième'' is used when there are more than two and [[second]] when there are only two, though some purists still follow it.^(Petit Robert 2007)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 1306 – ''Deusiesme'', Guillaume Guiart.^(TLFi)
+ * 1319–1340 – ''Deusime'', Watriquet de Couvin.^(TLFi)
+ * 1680 – As a noun, Richelet.^(TLFi)
+ * 1870 – ''Le deuxième'' “the second floor”.^(GLLF 1989)^(BHVF)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # [[m|en|second]]: ''la deuxième fois'', ''la Deuxième Guerre mondiale'', ''la deuxième personne du singulier''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ===Noun===
+ # The second (person or thing): ''arriver deuxième''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)
+ # The second floor: ''habiter au deuxième''.^(GLLF 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007)
+ # ''(military)'' ''Un deuxième classe'': a private.^(GLLF 1989)^(TLFi)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[deuxièmement]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[deux]]
+ * [[second]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}