désormais French · revision 16712

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=1130–40, Chanson de Guillaume (des ore mais)|origins=la hōra, la magis}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /de.zɔʁ.mɛ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''désormais'''^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French ''des ore mais'', ''des ores mes'', ''desoremais''.^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|fr|dès|or|mais|t2=now|t3=more]]: literally “from this hour onwards”.^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)^(Littré 1873)^(FEW|4, 473b) Bloch and Wartburg see it as a strengthened form of Old French [[m|fro|desor|t=henceforth]] (11th–16th centuries).^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) The adverb [[or]] continues [[la|hōra|t=hour]], and [[mais]] [[la|magis|t=more]], a sense that the conjunction keeps only in ''n'en pouvoir mais''.^(Littré 1873)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ Compare [[it|ormai|t=by now]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The ''Chanson de Guillaume'' (1130–40) has ''des ore mais'' “from now on”.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the 13th century it was still often written separately, as in the ''Roman de la Rose'' (''Dès ores mès'') and in Beaumanoir.^(Littré 1873) Chrétien de Troyes (about 1175) uses it in its two senses, “from the present moment on” and “from a given moment in the past on”.^(GLLF 1989) Féraud (1787) criticized a pronunciation with a mute ⟨e⟩, ''desormais''.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1130–40 – ''Des ore mais'', ''Chanson de Guillaume''.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1175 – Both modern senses, Chrétien de Troyes.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1787 – Féraud criticizes the pronunciation with mute ⟨e⟩.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # From now on, [[m|en|henceforth]]: ''désormais je ne l'écouterai plus''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # From then on (with reference to a moment in the past): ''ma vie s'organisa désormais''.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dorénavant]]

+ * [[dès]]

+ * [[or]]

+ * [[mais]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}