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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 1150, Charroi de Nîmes|origins=la aequus}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA: /e.ɡal.mɑ̃/^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''également'''^(Wiktionary)
+ Old French ''egalment'' (about 1150).^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is formed [[af|fr|égal|-ment]].^(TLFi)^(Wiktionary)^(Grand Robert 2005) [[égal]] (⟨igal⟩ about 1150, ⟨egal⟩ about 1160) remade, after [[la|aequālis|t=equal]], the popular Old French forms [[m|fro|uel]], [[m|fro|oel]] and [[m|fro|evel]] (about 1119), which had developed from the same Latin word;^(DHLF 1992) the Latin adjective is formed on [[m|la|aequus|t=level, even]].^(DHLF 1992)
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+ Compare [[pro|egalmen]], [[es|igualmente]] and [[it|egualmente]].^(Littré 1873)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The ''Charroi de Nîmes'' (about 1150) has ''egalment'' “in an equal way”.^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ The sense “also, in addition” is recorded in 1797, in the account of La Pérouse's voyage;^(TLFi) the Petit Robert dates it to the 19th century.^(Petit Robert 2007) The older sense survives in formal style, as in the Declaration of the Rights of Man: ''Tous les citoyens sont également admissibles à toutes dignités''.^(Petit Robert 2007)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 1150 – ''Egalment'' in the ''Charroi de Nîmes''.^(TLFi)
+ * 1694 – Recorded by the Académie.^(TLFi)
+ * 1797 – “Also, in addition”.^(TLFi)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adverb===
+ # [[m|en|equally|alt=Equally]], in the same way, to the same degree: ''aimer également ses enfants''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)
+ # [[m|en|also|alt=Also]], too, as well: ''Vous pouvez également prendre ce chemin.''^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[égal]]
+ * [[égaler]]
+ * [[égalité]]
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+ ==Usage notes==
+ Littré also records a noun ''également'', “equalization”, formed on [[égaler]] and used in 16th-century customary law for the sharing out of rents.^(Littré 1873)
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}