ressentir French · revision 17026

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=late 12th century, Béroul, Tristan (resentir)|origins=la sentiō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ʁə.sɑ̃.tiʁ/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA: /sə ʁsɑ̃.tiʁ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ressentir'''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|fr|re-|sentir]].^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|11, 468a) “Sentir” comes from [[la|sentiō|t=to feel, perceive]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In Béroul's ''Tristan'' (late 12th century) it means to feel in sympathy what another feels: ''l'un por l'autre resent mal'' “each feels pain for the other”.^(TLFi) The Grand Robert and the GLLF cite ''soi resentir'' “to feel oneself again”, on coming to, in a miracle of Saint Thomas (about 1190).^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Jean de Meun (1268–1278) uses it for feeling the painful effect of an outside cause; in the Middle Ages it also meant to smell, or to smell of: ''les aux rescent le mortier'' “the mortar smells of garlic” (13th century).^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005) Montaigne (1580) has it for being aware of a feeling, ''ressenti un singulier contentement de la victoire''.^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873)

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+ In the 16th and 17th centuries it also meant to resent an injury and wish to avenge it, as in Amyot's ''te ressentir des dommages'', the sense kept by [[ressentiment]] (1580); to feel gratitude for a favour (1633); and, of a thing, to show the marks of something: Thevet (1554) says the language of Malta ''ressentoit encore le vieil langage de Carthage''.^(Littré 1873)^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * late 12th century – “To feel in sympathy”, Béroul.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1190 – ''Soi resentir'' “to feel oneself again”.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 13th century – “To smell of”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1268–1278 – To feel a painful effect, Jean de Meun.^(TLFi)

+ * 1554 – “To bear the marks of”, Thevet.^(TLFi)

+ * 1580 – To feel an emotion, Montaigne.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|feel]] (a sensation or emotion), often keenly: ''ressentir une douleur'', ''ressentir de la colère''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # To be affected by, feel the effect of: ''ressentir un outrage''.^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # ''Se ressentir de'': to suffer from the effects of, show the marks of: ''il se ressent de sa chute''.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ressentiment]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sentir]]

+ * [[sentiment]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}