éloigner French · revision 17120

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 1050, Vie de saint Alexis (soi esluiner)|origins=la longē}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /e.lwa.ɲe/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''éloigner'''^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French ''esluiner'' (about 1050), ''esloignier'', ''esloigner'' (13th century); ''éloigner'' in Crespin (1606).^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|fr|é-|loin|-er]], from the prefix “es-” (Latin [[m|la|ex-]]) and [[loin]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)^(FEW|5, 404a) Wiktionary also mentions a popular Latin “*exlongāre”.^(Wiktionary) “Loin” is from [[la|longē|t=far]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ Compare [[pro|eslueingnar]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In the ''Vie de saint Alexis'' (about 1050) ''soi esluiner'' is to move away, in an abstract sense, from God and the precepts of Scripture.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The figurative “to turn (someone) away” is from the end of the 12th century, and in 1267 it meant to put off in time.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi) From the spatial sense came “to keep (someone) away from public life” and, before 1870, “to make seem distant”, of lenses.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989) The participle ''éloigné'' (early 13th century) is used of distant relatives (''des parents éloignés'') and remote causes, and, from 1580 ''être éloigné de'' meant to be far from doing something.^(DHLF 1992) Littré notes that some pronounced it ''élogner''.^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1050 – ''Soi esluiner'', ''Vie de saint Alexis''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1155 – ''Esluinement''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * late 12th century – To turn away.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1267 – To put off in time.^(TLFi)

+ * 1580 – ''Être éloigné de''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1606 – The spelling ''éloigner''.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To move away, take away: ''éloigner une lampe'', ''éloigner les enfants du feu''.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # To [[m|en|distance]], keep away (from a person, a plan, public life).^(DHLF 1992)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To turn away, divert: ''éloigner un soupçon''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ # To put off, postpone; to remove further in time: ''chaque jour nous éloigne de notre jeunesse''.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''S'éloigner'': to move away, go away; to drift apart, ''s'éloigner du sujet'', to digress.^(Wiktionary)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[éloignement]]

+ * [[éloigné]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[loin]]

+ * [[lointain]]

+ * [[la|longē]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}