intérieur French · revision 17294

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɛ̃.te.ʁjœʁ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''intérieur''' (feminine intérieure, masculine plural intérieurs, feminine plural intérieures)^(Wiktionary)

+ First written ''interior'' (1406, 1530); ''intérieur'' from 1535 (Olivétan) or 1556 (Bonivard).^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|interior|t=inner, further in; more personal, more intimate]], an old comparative of [[m|la|inter|t=between, among]] that replaced an assumed “*interus” “inner”.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(FEW|4, 754b) The Latin plural “interiora”, the inner parts of a house and the entrails, gave Middle French “enteriors” “heart and liver (of a bird)” in the 14th century and “interieures” “entrails” in 1542.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ Cognate with [[pro|interior]], [[es|interior]] and [[it|interiore]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It came in through religious writing: in the ''Internelle consolacion'' (1406, manuscript of about 1447), a translation of the ''Imitation of Christ'', it describes what is within the soul.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The concrete sense, opposed to [[extérieur]], appears in 1530 in Lefèvre d'Étaples' Bible (''interiores parties de la maison''), and the noun ''l'intérieur'' “the inside” in Palissy (1580).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Olivétan's Bible has ''l'homme intérieur'' (1535), the spiritual man, Pascal uses it for mental life (''disposition intérieure''), and ''vie intérieure'' is recorded in 1704.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ From 1779 (Madame de Genlis) the noun means one's home and domestic life, whence ''vêtement d'intérieur''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) It also meant the territory of a country (1787), whence the ''ministère de l'Intérieur'' (1812); in Alsace, since the Revolution, ''l'intérieur'' is the rest of France.^(DHLF 1992) In painting a ''tableau d'intérieur'' (1829) shows a room; in football an ''intérieur'' is an inside forward (1927).^(TLFi)^(BHVF)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1406 – ''Interior'', of the soul.^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 1530 – Concrete sense, Lefèvre d'Étaples.^(TLFi)

+ * 1535 – ''L'homme intérieur'', Olivétan.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1580 – The noun “inside”, Palissy.^(TLFi)

+ * 1779 – One's home, Madame de Genlis.^(TLFi)

+ * 1812 – ''Ministère de l'Intérieur'', ''commerce intérieur''.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)

+ * 1829 – ''Tableau d'intérieur''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1927 – A football position.^(TLFi)^(BHVF)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|interior]], [[m|en|inner]], inside: ''cour intérieure'', ''poche intérieure'', ''mer intérieure''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Concerning a country or group internally: ''politique intérieure'', ''commerce intérieur'', ''règlement intérieur''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi)

+ # Of the mind or soul: ''vie intérieure'', ''voix intérieure''.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # The inside of something: ''à l'intérieur'', ''de l'intérieur'', from within.^(Wiktionary)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # A [[m|en|home]], household; its furnishings: ''un intérieur bourgeois'', ''d'intérieur'', for wear at home.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)

+ # The interior of a country, ''l'Intérieur'', the Ministry of the Interior.^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''(art)'' A painting of a room, ''(cinema)'' a studio shot (''en intérieur'').^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)

+ # ''(football)'' An inside forward.^(TLFi)^(BHVF)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[intérieurement]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[extérieur]]

+ * [[interne]]

+ * [[la|interior]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}