salaud French · revision 17030

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=1584 (salaude); 13th century (Dauzat)|origins=frk *salo}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /sa.lo/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''salaud''' ''m'' (plural salauds, feminine salaude or salope)^(Wiktionary)

+ Sometimes written ''salop'' by attraction of the feminine ''salope''.^(TLFi)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|fr|sale|-aud]].^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|17, 13b) “Sale” “dirty” comes from [[frk|*salo|t=murky, dull]], matched by [[ang|salu]] and [[sga|sail]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) The feminine “salaude” was supplanted by [[salope]], which Bloch and Wartburg explain as probably “sale” combined with “hoppe”, a dialect word for the hoopoe, a bird known as very dirty.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Dauzat cites a 13th-century text from Provins.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989) Rey dates it from 1584, and Guillaume Bouchet's ''Serées'' (1597) has the adjective ''une salaude femme'', a very dirty woman.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As a noun it meant a very dirty person in d'Aubigné (1617).^(TLFi) The Académie (1798) records it as an insult, the feminine for a prostitute, and, from the mid-19th century the masculine is a morally repugnant man, as in Zola (1885); it can also mean a lecherous man, without real disapproval.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Since Rictus (1897) ''mon salaud'' can be said with admiring surprise to a lucky or bold friend.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989) In Canadian French the adjective ''salaud'' simply means “dirty” (1934).^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 13th century – Provins, according to Dauzat.^(TLFi)

+ * 1597 – Adjective ''salaude'', Guillaume Bouchet.^(TLFi)

+ * 1617 – Noun, a dirty person, d'Aubigné.^(TLFi)

+ * 1798 – An insult, Académie.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1885 – A morally repugnant man, Zola.^(TLFi)

+ * 1897 – ''Ben, mon salaud !'', Rictus.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(vulgar)'' A [[m|en|bastard]], a contemptible man: ''il s'est conduit comme un salaud'', ''bande de salauds !''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(familiar, not insulting)'' ''Mon salaud'': you lucky devil.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''(obsolete)'' A very dirty person.^(TLFi)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # Vile, base: ''être salaud'', ''(Canada)'' dirty.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sale]]

+ * [[salope]]

+ * [[saligaud]]

+ * [[salir]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}