immeuble French · revision 16856

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1200, Dialogues de saint Grégoire|origins=la mobilis}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /i.mœbl/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''immeuble''' ''m'' (plural immeubles)^(Wiktionary)

+ ''Immoble'' (about 1200), ''biens immobles'' (1258); ''immeuble'' after [[meuble]], in ''possessions immeubles'' (1475).^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|immōbilis|t=immovable]], with its form adapted to [[meuble]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary) The Latin adjective is formed from [[m|la|in-|t=not]] and [[m|la|mōbilis|t=movable]].^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005) The legal sense was taken from Medieval Latin, where the Latin adjective had it by 1162.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Wiktionary notes that the two adjectives formed a recurring pair in legal Latin; [[immobile]] is a later learned doublet.^(Wiktionary)

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+ Provençal had [[pro|immoble]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The ''Dialogues de saint Grégoire'' (about 1200) have ''immoble'' in the Latin sense “motionless”, now kept for [[immobile]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From 1258 ''biens immobles'' are immovable goods in law, ''immeubles'' from 1475; as a noun (1319) it named land and buildings, a sense later taken over by [[immobilier]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ By the same narrowing that turned [[meuble]] into “furniture”, ''immeuble'' came to mean a large house (1835, Balzac's letters), then a building with several storeys;^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007) Littré did not yet have this sense.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1200 – ''Immoble'' “motionless”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1258 – ''Biens immobles'', real property.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1319 – As a noun, “a piece of real property”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1475 – ''Possessions immeubles''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1835 – A house, in Balzac's letters.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1846 – A building.^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|building]], especially a block of flats or offices with several storeys: ''un immeuble de cinq étages''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(law)'' A piece of real property, land or a building.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # ''(law)'' Immovable: ''biens immeubles''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[immobilier]]

+ * [[meuble]]

+ * [[immobile]]

+ * [[la|immōbilis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}