dossier French · revision 16661

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=1352 (dossier de lit)|origins=la dorsum}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /do.sje/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dossier''' ''m'' (plural dossiers)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|fr|dos|-ier]].^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|3, 144a) [[dos]] continues [[la-vul|*dossum]], from classical [[m|la|dorsum|t=back]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Littré compares [[la-med|dorsārium]].^(Littré 1873) The sense “file of papers” is named from the back of the bundle: Bloch and Wartburg say the bundle bore a label on its back, as the spine of a book does, while Littré compares the bulge of the papers to a back.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in ''dossier de lit'' (1352), the head of a bed.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cotgrave (1611) records it alone for the back of a seat, the part one leans against.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) The archives of Bayonne use it in 1586 for the papers of a tax affair, by reference to the back of a book, Richelet records the sense in 1680.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(BHVF) From “bundle of documents about one person or affair” it came to mean the folder holding them, the affair itself (''le dossier du chômage'') and, in computing, a folder of files.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

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+ English borrowed the word in the sense “bundle of documents” (1880, by 1868 as a French word).^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1352 – ''Dossier de lit''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1377 – The diminutive [[dosseret]].^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1586 – “File of documents”, Bayonne.^(TLFi)

+ * 1611 – The back of a seat, Cotgrave.^(TLFi)

+ * 1680 – Richelet records the file of documents.^(GLLF 1989)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1880 – English ''dossier''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The back of a seat: ''le dossier d'une chaise''; the head (of a bed).^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # A [[m|en|file]], [[m|en|dossier]], a set of documents about one affair or person: ''constituer un dossier'', ''dossier médical''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # The folder containing such documents, ''(computing)'' a [[m|en|folder]].^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An issue or affair under study: ''ouvrir un dossier'', ''le dossier des retraites''.^(GLLF 1989)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dosseret]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dos]]

+ * [[dossard]]

+ * [[endosser]]

+ * [[adosser]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}