renoncer French · revision 16952

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1155, Wace, Roman de Brut|origins=la nuntius}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ʁə.nɔ̃.se/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''renoncer'''^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French [[m|fro|renoncier]] (about 1155); ''renoncer'' from the 13th century.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|renūntiō|t=to report back; to send back; to renounce]],^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(FEW|10, 258a) formed with [[m|la|re-|t=back]] and [[m|la|nūntiō|t=to announce]], of the family of [[m|la|nūntius|t=messenger]] (compare [[nonce]]).^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007) In Latin the verb had come to mean “to give up the use of something”, in law “to repudiate a contract”, and in Late Latin, in the Church, “to forsake the world”.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ Compare [[pro|renunciar]], [[es|renunciar]] and [[it|rinunziare]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Wace's ''Roman de Brut'' (about 1155) uses ''renoncier'' for “to announce, report”;^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) this sense, with “to explain” (about 1220), lasted until the 15th century, when it gave way to [[annoncer]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Before the end of the 12th century it took the sense “to stop claiming something”: ''renoncer à'' is in a charter of 1255, and with an infinitive about 1260.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989) With other objects it meant “to give up the use or enjoyment of something” (1274).^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989) Bloch and Wartburg date the verb and [[renonciation]] in this legal use to 1247.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ The transitive sense “to deny, disown” (about 1320) fell out of common use after the 17th century but survives in literary style, and in Belgian French for giving notice to a tenant.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi) The religious sense of Christian Latin returns in Calvin (1541), with ''renoncer à soi-même'' and ''renoncer au monde''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Richelet (1680) records it as a card-playing term, and [[renonce]] in cards dates from 1690.^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) [[renoncement]] is from the 15th century.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1155 – ''Renoncier'' “to announce”, in Wace.^(TLFi)

+ * 1247 – Legal ''renoncer'' and ''renonciation''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1255 – ''Renoncer à''.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1260 – ''Renoncer à'' with an infinitive.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1320 – “To disown”.^(TLFi)

+ * 15th century – ''Renoncement''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1541 – ''Renoncer à soi-même'', ''au monde'', in Calvin.^(TLFi)

+ * 1680 – A card-playing term, in Richelet.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''Renoncer à'': to give up, [[m|en|renounce]] (a right, a claim): ''renoncer à un droit, à une succession''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''Renoncer à'': to give up the idea of: ''renoncer à un voyage''; with an infinitive, ''renoncer à comprendre''.^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # ''Renoncer à'': to forsake (pleasures, the world): ''renoncer au monde'', ''renoncer à soi-même''.^(GLLF 1989)^(TLFi)

+ # To [[m|en|resign]], quit.^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(literary, transitive)'' To disown, deny, ''(Belgium)'' to give notice to (a tenant).^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[renoncement]]

+ * [[renonce]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[renonciation]]

+ * [[annoncer]]

+ * [[nonce]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}