robe French · revision 17223

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1155, Wace|origins=gem-pro *raubō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ʁɔb/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''robe''' ''f'' (plural robes)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|gmw-pro|*rauba|t=booty, plunder]], whence the sense “clothing taken as booty”.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(FEW|16, 674a) The Germanic word, Wiktionary's [[gem-pro|*raubō]], is related to [[en|rob]] and to French [[dérober]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Wiktionary) Rey thinks the sense “garment” may have arisen already in Germanic.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ Cognate with [[it|roba|t=goods; clothes]], [[pro|rauba|t=booty; robe]] and [[es|ropa|t=clothes]], with an irregular /p/.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In Wace's ''Brut'' (1155) ''robe'' is booty, the spoils of war, and also the movable goods a person uses; the sense “booty” is frequent in Old French and lasts until the 16th century.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ About 1165 it meant a set of garments cut from the same cloth, and in Chrétien de Troyes (1165–70) the long one-piece garment worn by women.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Long robes worn by men gave the robes of the clergy (about 1160, ''la robe ne fet pas le moine'', 1269–78) and of lawyers and magistrates (1530), whence ''la robe'', the legal profession (1642), and ''noblesse de robe''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) ''Robe de chambre'' (1576) followed ''robe a relever'' (1387) and ''robe de nuyt'' (about 1462), and potatoes ''en robe de chambre'' (1870) were later called ''en robe des champs'' (1938).^(TLFi) By analogy it named the skin of vegetables (Rabelais, 1546), an animal's coat (about 1640), the wrapper leaf of a cigar (1730) and the colour of wine (1833).^(TLFi)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1155 – “Booty”, Wace.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1160 – A monk's robe.^(TLFi)

+ * 1165–70 – A woman's dress, Chrétien de Troyes.^(TLFi)

+ * 1530 – ''Homme de robe longue'', a lawyer.^(TLFi)

+ * 1576 – ''Robe de chambre''.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1640 – An animal's coat, Voiture.^(TLFi)

+ * 1833 – The colour of a wine.^(TLFi)

+ * 1889 – ''Robe du soir''.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|dress]], frock: ''une robe d'été'', ''robe du soir'', ''robe de mariée''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|robe]], gown of a judge, lawyer, priest or academic: ''robe d'avocat'', ''(historical)'' ''gens de robe'', the legal profession.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi)

+ # ''Robe de chambre'': a dressing gown, ''pommes de terre en robe des champs'', jacket potatoes.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi)

+ # The coat of an animal, especially a horse: ''la robe d'un cheval''.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

+ # The colour of a wine.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

+ # The skin or outer leaf of some vegetables; the wrapper of a cigar.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[robette]]

+ * [[enrober]]

+ * [[garde-robe]]

+ * [[robin]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dérober]]

+ * [[en|rob]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}