séparer French · revision 17124

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1314, Henri de Mondeville|origins=la parō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /se.pa.ʁe/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''séparer'''^(Wiktionary)

+ The Académie wrote ''separer'' in 1694 and 1718, ''séparer'' from 1740.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|sēparō|t=to set apart, separate; to distinguish]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(FEW|11, 474b)^(Wiktionary) The Latin verb is from [[m|la|sē-]], marking separation (see [[séduire]]), and [[m|la|parō|t=to prepare, arrange]] (see [[parer]]).^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)^(Littré 1873) Its inherited outcome is [[sevrer]], the older French form, of which “séparer” is a learned doublet remade on the Latin in the 14th century.^(DHLF 1992)^(Littré 1873)^(Wiktionary)

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

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Henri de Mondeville's ''Chirurgie'' (1314) has ''separer les choses conjointes'', to stop things being together or forming a whole, and to set apart the elements of a mixture.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Se séparer'' “to divide” is from about 1398.^(DHLF 1992) About 1330 it meant to keep apart from, and in 1375–79 to put at a distance in space; at the end of the 15th century a distance ''sépare'' places.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) In 1549 it meant to distinguish by an operation of the mind, in 1552 to break up an agreement or a union, and, from 1559 to come between fighters.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Boileau (1674) has ''du bon or je separe le faulx''.^(TLFi) Spouses who live apart are ''séparés'', ''séparés de corps'' in law.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1314 – ''Separer'', Henri de Mondeville.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1330 – To keep apart, Guillaume de Digulleville.^(TLFi)

+ * 1370 – ''Séparément'', Oresme.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1549 – To distinguish, Robert Estienne.^(TLFi)

+ * 1552 – To break up a union.^(TLFi)

+ * 1559 – To part fighters.^(TLFi)

+ * 1740 – The spelling ''séparer'', Académie.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|separate]], part, divide: ''séparer le blanc du jaune'', ''séparer deux combattants''.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

+ # To set apart, sort: ''séparer le bon grain de l'ivraie''.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

+ # To form a boundary between: ''la rivière sépare les deux villages''.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # To distinguish (in the mind): ''séparer deux notions''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # To estrange, split up: ''la guerre les a séparés''.^(TLFi)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''Se séparer'': to part, split up; to divide: ''ils se sont séparés'', ''la route se sépare en deux''.^(Wiktionary)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[séparément]]

+ * [[séparable]]

+ * [[inséparable]]

+ * [[séparatiste]]

+ * [[séparé]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[séparation]]

+ * [[sevrer]]

+ * [[parer]]

+ * [[la|sēparō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}