lendemain French · revision 17135

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=1292 (landemain)}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /lɑ̃.d(ə).mɛ̃/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''lendemain''' ''m'' (plural lendemains)^(Wiktionary)

+ ''L'endemain'', from ''endemain'' (about 1140, Gaimar), until the 15th century, ''lendemain'' as one word from 1292.^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the elided article “l’” fused with Old French “endemain” “the following day”, itself [[af|fr|en|demain]].^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary) Littré explains that once the article had fused, its origin was forgotten and another article was added, ''le l'endemain“; the two forms competed in the 15th and 16th centuries, and by the 17th ”lendemain“ was felt as a single word.^(Littré 1873) ”Demain'' is from [[la-lat|dē māne|t=from the morning]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(FEW|3, 37a)

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+ Compare [[it|l'indomani]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A document of 1292 has ''li seconz landemain de l'Assumpcion'', the day after a given day.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Le lendemain que'' “the day after” is in Commynes (end of the 15th century), ''du jour au lendemain'' in Ronsard (mid-16th century).^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989) Marot (before 1544) uses it for the time to come, in ''avoir souci du lendemain''.^(TLFi) Furetière (1690) has it for the period just after an event: a marriage one sometimes regrets the next day.^(TLFi) [[surlendemain|alt=Surlendemain]] is in Lesage (18th century).^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1140 – ''Endemain'', Gaimar.^(TLFi)

+ * 1292 – ''Landemain''.^(TLFi)

+ * late 15th century – ''Le lendemain que'', Commynes.^(TLFi)

+ * before 1544 – The future, Marot.^(TLFi)

+ * mid-16th century – ''Du jour au lendemain'', Ronsard.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 17th century – The single form ''lendemain'' prevails.^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The next day, the day after: ''le lendemain matin'', ''le lendemain de son arrivée''.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''Du jour au lendemain'': overnight, very suddenly.^(GLLF 1989)

+ # The future: ''penser au lendemain'', ''sans lendemain'', short-lived.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # The time just after an event, ''(plural)'' consequences: ''les lendemains de la guerre''.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[demain]]

+ * [[surlendemain]]

+ * [[après-demain]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The proverb ''il ne faut jamais remettre au lendemain ce qu'on peut faire le jour même'' is quoted by the GLLF.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}