lampe French · revision 16827

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=1119, Philippe de Thaon, Comput|origins=grc λάμπω}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /lɑ̃p/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lampe''' ''f'' (plural lampes)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|la-lat|lampada|t=torch, lamp]], a Greek-type accusative taken as a feminine nominative, of [[la|lampas|t=torch]],^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(FEW|5, 143b) borrowed from [[grc|λαμπάς|tr=lampás|t=torch; torch race; later, lamp]],^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Wiktionary) a derivative of [[m|grc|λάμπω|tr=lámpō|t=to shine]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Littré 1873)^(Petit Robert 2007) Rey compares [[sga|lassaim|t=I blaze]] and [[lv|lāpa|t=torch]].^(DHLF 1992) [[m|grc|λαμπτήρ|tr=lamptḗr|t=lantern]], from the same verb, was borrowed into Latin as [[m|la|lanterna]] (see [[lanterne]]).^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ Cognate with [[ro|lampă]], [[it|lampada]], [[es|lámpara]], [[pt|alâmpada]] and [[br|lamp]].^(Petit Robert 2007)^(REW 1935)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Philippe de Thaon's ''Comput'' (1119) has it for a vessel holding a combustible liquid that gives light.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Furetière (1690) records a lamp whose flame is used for heat, as in enamelling.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) ''Lampe électrique'' is found before 1870 (Jules Verne) and in dictionaries in 1890; the word then named many kinds of lamp: ''à huile'', ''à pétrole'', ''lampe-tempête'', ''lampe de poche'' (1907).^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989) In 1923 it named a vacuum tube, a sense still alive though the device has mostly been replaced by transistors.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ In drinkers' slang it meant the stomach (1683), whence ''s'en mettre, s'en foutre plein la lampe'' “to stuff oneself” (1915), probably influenced by the verb [[lamper]].^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007) In African French a tall-chimneyed paraffin lamp is a ''lampe Aladin''.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1119 – An oil lamp, Philippe de Thaon.^(TLFi)

+ * Mid-16th century – ''Lampe du tabernacle'', Ronsard.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1683 – “Stomach”, drinkers' slang.^(TLFi)

+ * 1690 – A heating lamp, Furetière.^(TLFi)

+ * 1835 – The derivative [[lampiste]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1890 – ''Lampe électrique'' in the dictionaries.^(TLFi)

+ * 1915 – ''S'en foutre plein la lampe''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1923 – A radio valve.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|lamp]] burning a liquid or gas fuel: ''lampe à huile'', ''lampe à pétrole'', ''lampe-tempête'', hurricane lamp.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # An electric light, a lamp; a light [[m|en|bulb]]: ''lampe de soixante watts'', ''lampe de poche'', torch, flashlight^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A heating appliance with a flame: ''lampe à souder'', blowlamp.^(TLFi)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(dated)'' A radio [[m|en|valve]], vacuum tube.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''(familiar)'' ''S'en mettre plein la lampe'': to eat and drink one's fill.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[lampe-tempête]]

+ * [[lampiste]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[lanterne]]

+ * [[lampadaire]]

+ * [[lampion]]

+ * [[lampant]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}