repas French · revision 16699

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 1112, Voyage de saint Brendan (repast)|origins=la pāscō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ʁə.pa/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA: /ʁə.pɑ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''repas''' ''m'' (invariable)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French ''repast'', in use until the 15th century, ''repas'' from about 1350.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is Old French [[m|fro|repast]], formed with [[re-]] on [[m|fro|past|t=food; meal]] after the verb [[repaître]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(FEW|7, 699a) That noun continues [[la|pāstus|t=pasture, food of animals or of man]], from [[m|la|pāstum]], the supine of [[m|la|pāscō|t=to pasture, feed]] (see [[paître]]).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989) In hunting the Old French noun was also the quarry given to the hounds (about 1175).^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The GLLF and Rey date ''repast'' to the ''Voyage de saint Brendan'' (about 1112), in the general sense “food”; the TLFi's first record is Wace's ''Roman de Rou'' (1160–74).^(GLLF 1989)^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Until the 16th century the word meant food in general, a sense still found in Marot, Rabelais (1534) has it for the food taken at set hours, the modern meal.^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(DHLF 1992) In that sense it was no longer felt to be linked with ''repaître'' and took on a strongly social, codified value, the meals of the day having names (''déjeuner'', ''dîner'', ''souper'') whose times have varied.^(DHLF 1992) It was used of the food given to animals about 1350, and Musset (1829) of the food animals find for themselves.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Old phrases include ''repas de brebis'', a meal without drink (Furetière, 1690), and ''repas de Bernardins'', a cheerful meal (Lesage, 1735); compounds such as ''panier-repas'' and ''coin-repas'' are modern.^(GLLF 1989)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1112 – ''Repast'' “food”, ''Voyage de saint Brendan''.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1160–74 – ''Repast'', Wace.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1350 – ''Repas''; food for animals.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1534 – A meal taken at set hours, Rabelais.^(TLFi)

+ * 1690 – ''Repas de brebis'', Furetière.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1735 – ''Repas de Bernardins'', Lesage.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|meal]], food and drink taken at set times: ''faire un bon repas'', ''repas de noces'', ''prendre ses repas au restaurant''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Food given to animals at one time, ''(figurative)'' the prey an animal eats.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''Panier-repas'': a packed meal.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[panier-repas]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[repaître]]

+ * [[paître]]

+ * [[pâture]]

+ * [[appât]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}