disposer French · revision 16936

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1180, Enfances Vivien|origins=la pono}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /dis.po.ze/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''disposer'''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|dispōnō|t=to set out, arrange; to order, regulate]],^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Wiktionary) reshaped after [[poser]], as in [[composer]] and [[déposer]].^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(GLLF 1989)^(FEW|8, 69a) The Latin verb is formed with [[m|la|dis-|t=apart]] and [[m|la|pōnō|t=to put, place]], “to place separately and distinctly”.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989) Littré notes that the French verb has another origin than the Latin one, so that the Latin participle [[m|la|dispositus]] must have influenced the sense.^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The GLLF finds the participle about 1180, in the ''Enfances Vivien'', of the state of the body, and the Grand Robert gives “to decide on” for 1180;^(GLLF 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005) the TLFi's first record (''Dialogues'' of Gregory, about 1200) has “to put in order”, of what almighty God has ordained.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The psychological sense “to prepare (someone), put in a certain frame of mind” is in a translation of Ovid's ''Remedia amoris'' (1370–1380), where jealousy ''dispose les cuers a häyne mortelle''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) In the 13th century it began to be used with ''de'', first for “to decide, decree” (1236), then “to use (something) as one pleases” (1298).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) ''Se disposer à'' “to get ready to” dates from about 1393, and the verb is also used alone in formulas of dismissal (''vous pouvez disposer'').^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)

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+ ''Bien'' or ''mal disposé'' meant “in good or poor health” in Oresme (1365), a sense now lost, and “well or ill intentioned” in Furetière (1690).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) The physical sense survives in [[indisposé]] (1407) and [[indisposer]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) [[prédisposer]] dates from 1798.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1180 – The participle, of the body, in the ''Enfances Vivien''.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * c. 1200 – “To put in order”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1236 – ''Disposer de'' “to decree”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1298 – ''Disposer de'' “to use as one pleases”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1365 – ''Bien'', ''mal disposé'', of health.^(TLFi)

+ * 1370–1380 – “To prepare (someone)”.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1393 – ''Se disposer à''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1407 – ''Indisposé''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1690 – ''Bien'', ''mal disposé envers''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1798 – ''Prédisposer''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(transitive)'' To [[m|en|arrange|alt=Arrange]], lay out: ''disposer des fleurs dans un vase'', ''disposer ses troupes''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''Disposer quelqu'un à'': to prepare, incline someone to.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''Se disposer à'': to get ready to, be about to.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

+ # ''Disposer de'': to have at one's disposal; to use freely, ''(law)'' to dispose of (property).^(Wiktionary)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''(intransitive)'' ''Vous pouvez disposer'': you may go.^(DHLF 1992)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''Bien'', ''mal disposé'': well or ill disposed (towards someone).^(TLFi)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[indisposer]]

+ * [[prédisposer]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[disposé]]

+ * [[disposition]]

+ * [[poser]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}