partout French · revision 17321

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=late 10th century, Passion de Clermont (per tot)}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /paʁ.tu/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''partout'''^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French [[m|fro|per tot]], ''par tut'', ''par tot''; the Académie wrote ''par tout'' from 1694 to 1762 and ''partout'' from 1798.^(GLLF 1989)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|fr|par|tout]], in their old forms “per” and “tot”.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(FEW|13/2, 125b) Wiktionary compares [[ca|pertot]], and the different constructions [[it|dappertutto]] and Spanish “por todas partes”.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ As ''per tot'' it is found in the ''Passion de Clermont'' (late 10th century), meaning “everywhere”.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) A 12th-century life of Thomas Becket has ''Pur ço ert il par tut durement renumez'' (“therefore he was greatly renowned everywhere”).^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''De par tot'' “from everywhere” dates from about 1175 and the popular intensive ''tout partout'' from about 1190.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989) By the end of the 12th century it could also mean “in all circumstances”, and Montaigne (1580) uses it for “in many places”.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989) ''Partout où'' “wherever” is recorded in 1396.^(TLFi)

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+ In games it follows a number to show a tie, as in dominoes (''six partout'') and, more recently, in tennis and football (''quarante partout'', ''trois partout'').^(DHLF 1992)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * late 10th century – ''Per tot'' in the ''Passion de Clermont''.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1175 – ''De par tot''.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1190 – ''Tout partout''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1396 – ''Partout où''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1580 – “In many places”, in Montaigne.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1798 – The Académie adopts the spelling ''partout''.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|everywhere]]: ''on ne peut être partout à la fois''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # In many places: ''ses vêtements traînent partout''.^(Larousse)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''(games, sport)'' All, apiece: ''trois partout'', ''quarante partout''.^(Larousse)^(Le Robert)

+ # ''De partout'': from all sides, ''partout où'': wherever.^(Larousse)^(TLFi)

+ # ''Mettre son nez partout'': to poke one's nose into everything.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[par]]

+ * [[tout]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}