dangereux French · revision 17031

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=early 13th century, Reclus de Molliens (dangereus)|origins=la dominus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /dɑ̃ʒ.ʁø/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA: /dɑ̃.ʒə.ʁø/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dangereux''' (feminine dangereuse, masculine plural dangereux, feminine plural dangereuses)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French ''dangereus''.^(Wiktionary)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|fr|danger|-eux]].^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary) “Danger”, Old French “dangier”, comes from a late Latin “*domniarium” “power”, from [[la|dominus|t=lord, master]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) The Medieval Latin nickname “Dangerosa” borne by a woman in 1060 shows that the adjective already existed.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ It is the source of [[en|dangerous]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its sense in the first records, in Reclus de Molliens (early 13th century), is unclear: perhaps “weak”, perhaps “acting rashly”; the Grand Robert and the GLLF give “difficult” in the late 12th century.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It followed the history of ''danger'', which first meant “power, domination” and then “refusal, difficulty”: in the ''Roman de la Rose'' ''dangereus'' means hard to please, standoffish, and Anglo-Norman ''dangerus'' “exacting, difficult” (about 1292).^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Littré 1873)^(AND) As ''danger'' came to mean “peril” (1340), ''dangereux'' took the modern sense “presenting a danger” in the 13th century, used of people as well as things.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Montaigne writes ''C'est une dangereuse invention que celle des gehennes'' “torture is a dangerous invention”.^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1060 – Medieval Latin nickname ''Dangerosa''.^(TLFi)

+ * early 13th century – ''Dangereus'', Reclus de Molliens.^(TLFi)

+ * 13th century – “Hard to please”, ''Roman de la Rose''.^(Littré 1873)

+ * 13th century – “Presenting a danger”.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|dangerous]], perilous: ''un virage dangereux'', ''une maladie dangereuse'', ''un sport dangereux''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Harmful, likely to do wrong (of a person): ''un individu dangereux''.^(GLLF 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # ''(figurative)'' Risky, delicate: ''un terrain dangereux''.^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[danger]]

+ * [[en|dangerous]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}