immédiatement French · revision 16861

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=1534, Le Guidon en françoys|origins=la medius}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /i.me.djat.mɑ̃/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''immédiatement''' (invariable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|fr|immédiat|-ment]].^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)^(Littré 1873) [[immédiat]] (1382) is [[bor|la-lat|immediātus|t=without intermediary]], from [[m|la|in-|t=not]] and [[m|la|medius|t=middle, intermediate]].^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ ''Le Guidon en françoys'' (1534) uses it for “directly, without an intermediary”; the GLLF has an example from 1503.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The sense “without an intermediary” was usual in classical French: Racine says that the abbey of Port-Royal had long depended ''immédiatement'' on the archbishop.^(GLLF 1989) Descartes uses it in 1641 in a philosophical sense, still current.^(GLLF 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007) Hulsius records the sense “at once, straight away” in 1602, now the usual one, and Crespin (1606 or 1616) the sense “just before or after (in space)”, as in ''suivre immédiatement''.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1534 – “Directly, without an intermediary”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1602 – “At once”, in Hulsius.^(TLFi)

+ * 1616 – “Just before or after (in space)”, in Crespin.^(TLFi)

+ * 1641 – In philosophy, in Descartes.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|immediately|alt=Immediately]], at once, without delay: ''sortez immédiatement !''^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Just before or after (in space or order): ''précéder, suivre immédiatement''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi)

+ # ''(philosophy, literary)'' Directly, without an intermediary.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[immédiat]]

+ * [[médiat]]

+ * [[la-lat|immediātus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}