radio French · revision 16735

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=clipping|attested=1907; 1915 (radiotélégramme)|origins=la radius}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ʁa.djo/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''radio''' ''f'' (plural radios)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a clipping of several compounds in [[radio-]]: [[radiotélégramme]], [[radiotélégraphiste]], [[radiographie]], [[radiodiffusion]] and others.^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary) [[en|radio]] developed the same senses from 1906 to 1922.^(TLFi) The element goes back to [[la|radius|t=ray]].^(FEW|10, 25a)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The Grand Robert dates the clipping to 1907; the TLFi finds ''radio'' “radiotelegram” in soldiers' slang in 1915 and “radio operator” in 1917.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Martin du Gard (1922) uses ''la radio'' for radiography, and Céline (1936) for an X-ray photograph.^(TLFi) Giraudoux (1926) uses it for broadcasting, Saint-Exupéry (1931) has ''des postes radio'', and Julien Green (1933) uses it for the receiving set.^(TLFi) The masculine ''un radio'', the radio operator of a ship or aircraft, is common in Saint-Exupéry.^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(BHVF) From broadcasting came a radio station, ''radios périphériques'' and the ''radios libres'' of the 1980s.^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1907 – The clipping, according to the Grand Robert.^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 1915 – “Radiotelegram”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1917 – “Radio operator”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1922 – “Radiography”, Martin du Gard.^(TLFi)

+ * 1926 – “Broadcasting”, Giraudoux.^(TLFi)

+ * 1933 – A receiving set, Green.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(feminine)'' [[m|en|radio]], broadcasting: ''écouter la radio'', ''passer à la radio''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(feminine)'' A radio set: ''allumer la radio''; a radio station: ''une radio locale''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi)

+ # ''(feminine)'' An [[m|en|X-ray]]: ''passer une radio''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(masculine)'' A radio operator: ''le radio de bord''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(masculine, dated)'' A radiotelegram.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[radiographie]]

+ * [[radiodiffusion]]

+ * [[rayon]]

+ * [[en|radio]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The Grand Robert and the Petit Robert give separate numbered entries to the masculine ''radio'' (radiogram, radio operator) and the feminine (radiography, broadcasting).^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}