pantalon French · revision 16970

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing, eponym|attested=1550, Chronique bordeloise|origins=la Pantaleon}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /pɑ̃.ta.lɔ̃/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pantalon''' ''m'' (plural pantalons)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|it|Pantalone]], the name of a buffoon of the ''commedia dell'arte'' who wore a garment all of one piece, with the hose falling straight to the feet.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(FEW|7, 564b) He was the stock figure of the old man, gouty, stooping, greedy and always duped, and first appeared at Venice;^(DHLF 1992) in Italian the name was a nickname for Venetians, because the given name was common there in honour of Saint Pantaleone, patron of the city.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) The saint's name is [[la|Pantaleon]], of Greek origin;^(GLLF 1989) Littré explains it as “all-merciful”.^(Littré 1873)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The ''Chronique bordeloise'' (1550) speaks of actors ''l'un vestu en Pantalon, l'autre en Zani'', “one dressed as Pantalone, the other as Zanni”.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(GLLF 1989) The TLFi's first record of the name is in Brantôme (1583–1584).^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From 1585 the word named the costume of Pantalone, a one-piece suit from neck to feet with straight legs.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Furetière (1690) describes it as a one-piece garment with the stockings, or close breeches held up with the stockings; the Grand Robert and the GLLF date that sense to 1650.^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989) The modern long trousers came with the Revolution, in contrast to the knee breeches, the [[culotte]] (compare [[sans-culotte]]): the TLFi finds it in Marat in 1790, the Robert dictionaries in 1802.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ From 1797 it also named a women's undergarment worn beneath the petticoats.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(BHVF) In the 19th century it was a theatre term for a painted flat (1840) and the name of a figure of the quadrille (1842).^(TLFi) Of the character came ''un Pantalon'' “buffoonish hypocrite” (1650, Retz, 1679) and [[pantalonnade]] (1597).^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) English [[m|en|pantaloon]] (1580s) and ''pantaloons'' (1660s) have the same origin.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1550 – ''Pantalon'' as the name of the character.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1585 – The costume of Pantalone.^(TLFi)

+ * 1597 – ''Pantalonnade''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1650 – Close breeches joined to the stockings.^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 1660s – English ''pantaloons''.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1790 – Long trousers, in Marat.^(TLFi)

+ * 1797 – A women's undergarment.^(TLFi)

+ * 1840 – A painted flat in the theatre.^(TLFi)

+ * 1842 – A figure of the quadrille.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|trousers|alt=Trousers]], [[m|en|pants]]: ''enfiler son pantalon'', ''pantalon court''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(dated)'' Women's drawers, knickers.^(Wiktionary)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''(theatre, dated)'' A painted flat masking an opening in the set.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)

+ # ''(dance)'' The first figure of the [[m|en|quadrille]].^(TLFi)

+ # ''(dated)'' A buffoonish hypocrite.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[pantalonnade]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[culotte]]

+ * [[bénard]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}