reposer French · revision 17140

+ {{homograph|1|to rest}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=10th century, Fragment de Valenciennes (repauser)|origins=la pausa}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ʁə.po.ze/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''reposer'''^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French ''repauser'' (10th century), respelt ''reposer'' after ''pose'' (about 1050).^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The verb “to rest” is [[inh|la-lat|repausō|t=to calm; to rest]] (4th century), from the intensive [[m|la|re-]] and Late Latin [[m|la-lat|pausō|t=to cease, stop]] (see [[poser]]), from [[m|la|pausa|t=stop, pause]] (see [[pause]]).^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)^(FEW|10, 263a)^(Wiktionary)

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+ Compare [[it|riposare]], [[pro|repausar]], [[es|reposar]] and [[pt|repousar]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The 10th-century ''Fragment de Valenciennes'' has ''E repauser se podist'' “and he could rest”; from the first texts ''se reposer'' means to stop working or moving so as to recover from fatigue.^(Littré 1873)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The intransitive “to lie at rest” (about 1050, ''Vie de saint Alexis'') is now literary, and the transitive “to rest (the body)” is from about 1112.^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005) About 1150 it was used of the dead, first of a saint's relics, whence the epitaph ''ici repose'' (1690).^(DHLF 1992) With a preposition it expresses being placed on a support, and figuratively being founded on something.^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007) ''Se reposer'' meant “to calm down” in the early 17th century, ''se reposer sur qqn'' is to rely on someone.^(DHLF 1992)^(Wiktionary) The noun [[repos]] is in the ''Chanson de Roland''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 10th century – ''Repauser'', ''Fragment de Valenciennes''.^(Littré 1873)

+ * c. 1050 – The form ''reposer''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * c. 1080 – ''Repos'', ''Chanson de Roland''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * c. 1112 – To rest the body, ''Voyage de saint Brendan''.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * c. 1150 – Of the dead.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1690 – ''Ici repose''.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''Se reposer'': to [[m|en|rest]], take a rest, ''se reposer sur'', to rely on, ''se reposer sur ses lauriers'', to rest on one's laurels.^(Wiktionary)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # To rest, relax (the body or mind): ''reposer ses jambes'', ''cela repose les yeux''.^(Wiktionary)^(Littré 1873)

+ # ''(literary, intransitive)'' To lie at rest; to sleep: ''il ne dort pas, il repose''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ # ''(intransitive)'' Of the dead, to lie, be buried: ''ici repose…'', ''qu'il repose en paix''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''(intransitive)'' ''Reposer sur'': to rest on, be based on.^(Wiktionary)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[repos]]

+ * [[reposant]]

+ * [[reposoir]]

+ * [[reposée]]

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+ {{homograph|2|to put down again}}

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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=1831, Musset}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ʁə.po.ze/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''reposer''' (transitive)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The verb “to put back” is [[af|fr|re-|poser]].^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989) Earlier, “repoisier” meant “to put down” (15th century) and “reposer” “to deposit goods” (Monet, 1636).^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLFi first records it in Musset (1831), in the sense “to put down again”; the Grand Robert and the Petit Robert date it to Théophile Gautier (1838).^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To put down again: ''reposer son verre'', ''(military)'' ''reposez arme !'', order arms.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi)

+ # To put back in place, refit: ''reposer une moquette''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # To ask again: ''reposer la question''.^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[repose]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[poser]]

+ * [[pause]]

+ * [[la|repausō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}