admettre French · revision 16972

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ad.mɛtʁ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''admettre'''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a remaking (once in the 13th century, then from 1508) of Old French [[m|fro|amettre]], after the verb it comes from,^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005) [[bor|la|admittō|t=to let in; to allow]],^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(FEW|24, 168a) formed with [[m|la|ad-]] and [[m|la|mittō|t=to send, let go]], the source of [[mettre]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ The popular Old French verb meant “to charge with, accuse” until the 15th century, and still does in Walloon;^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(TLFi) that sense is not found in Latin, and the TLFi takes it as a figurative use of “to put on (someone)”.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ ''Amettre'' “to impute, charge with” is in ''Guillaume d'Angleterre'' (1165);^(TLFi) ''admettre'' in the sense “to receive someone as qualified to enter” is in the 13th-century ''Sermons poitevins'': ''la poestez... de vos admettre en la gloire''.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ French developed the sense “to accept, receive”, also figuratively, as with excuses in Amyot.^(DHLF 1992)^(Littré 1873) With a thing as subject it meant “to allow, permit” in Corneille's ''Le Cid'' (1637): ''Ce haut rang n'admet point un homme sans honneur''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) ''Admettre quelqu'un à'' “to allow to” dates from the 1640s,^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi) and the intellectual sense “to accept as true” from the mid-17th century (Pascal), recorded by Richelet in 1680.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi) It is used in science, as in a problem that admits two solutions.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ The participle [[admis]] meant “received into a society” in 1671 and, as a noun, a successful candidate in 1919.^(DHLF 1992) [[admission]] is a borrowing from Latin (1568, or 1539 according to Bloch and Wartburg), and [[réadmettre]] dates from 1829.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1165 – ''Amettre'' “to impute”.^(TLFi)

+ * 13th century – ''Admettre'' “to receive”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1508 – ''Admettre'' in regular use.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1637 – “To allow”, in Corneille.^(TLFi)

+ * 1644 – ''Admettre quelque chose à'', in Rotrou.^(TLFi)

+ * 1680 – “To accept as true” (Richelet).^(TLFi)

+ * 1829 – ''Réadmettre''.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|admit|alt=Admit]], let in, accept (someone) as a member, guest or pupil: ''admettre quelqu'un à sa table'', ''Les chiens ne sont pas admis'', ''être admis à un examen'', to pass.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To accept as true or valid, to [[m|en|acknowledge]]: ''une chose communément admise''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To allow, tolerate; of a thing, to admit of: ''Ce problème admet deux solutions.''^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)

+ # ''Admettre quelqu'un à'' (and infinitive): to allow someone to.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[admis]]

+ * [[admissible]]

+ * [[admission]]

+ * [[inadmissible]]

+ * [[réadmettre]]

+ * [[mettre]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}