troisième French · revision 16739

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=late 12th century, Sermons de saint Grégoire sur Ézéchiel (trecime)|origins=la trēs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /tʁwa.zjɛm/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA: /tʁwɑ.zjɛm/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''troisième''' (plural troisièmes)^(Wiktionary)

+ ''Trecime'', ''troisime'' (12th century), ''troisiesme'' (1487); the Académie wrote ''troisiesme'' in 1694, ''troisieme'' in 1718 and ''troisième'' from 1740.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|fr|trois|-ième]].^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary) That numeral comes from [[la|trēs|t=three]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Littré notes that the old language said [[tiers]] for “third”.^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The sermons of Saint Gregory on Ezekiel (late 12th century) have ''trecime an'' “third year”.^(TLFi) Chrétien de Troyes (about 1175) has ''troisime''.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is used in dates (1366) and in the names of kings (''le roy Henry troisième'', 1580, Palissy), and in a ranking from Montaigne (1588).^(TLFi) As a noun it is in d'Urfé's ''Astrée'' (1619); Furetière (1690) calls a pupil of the third class ''un troisième'', and the Académie (1694) has ''la troisième'' for the class itself.^(TLFi) ''Le troisième'' is also the third floor (1835, Académie, Casanova).^(BHVF) Modern phrases include ''le troisième âge'' “old age, the elderly”, ''la Troisième République'' and La Fontaine's ''troisième larron''.^(GLLF 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Late 12th century – ''Trecime''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1487 – ''Troisiesme''.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1580 – ''Le roy Henry troisième'', Palissy.^(TLFi)

+ * 1619 – As a noun, d'Urfé.^(TLFi)

+ * 1694 – ''La troisième'', the school class.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|third]]: ''le troisième jour'', ''la troisième personne'', ''le troisième âge''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # The third (person or thing): ''arriver troisième''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # The third floor: ''habiter au troisième''.^(BHVF)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # ''(education)'' ''La troisième'': the fourth year of secondary school in France, for pupils of about 14.^(TLFi)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[troisièmement]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[trois]]

+ * [[tiers]]

+ * [[tertiaire]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}