sorte French · revision 17370

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1220, Auberon|origins=la sors}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /sɔʁt/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sorte''' ''f'' (plural sortes)^(Wiktionary)

+ Middle French also ''sourte'' (about 1500).^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|sors|t=lot, fate; rank, condition; kind]], accusative “sortem”.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Wiktionary) In classical Latin “sors” already meant “manner” (Virgil's “nova pugnae sors”), and the sense is common in Late Latin (Gregory of Tours).^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(DHLF 1992) Bloch and Wartburg take it as a borrowing because of its late date; the inherited form is [[sort]] “fate”, of which it is a doublet.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary) [[it|sorta]] is borrowed from French.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(REW 1935)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found about 1220 in ''Auberon'', meaning a group of people, a company, a sense it kept in Old and Middle French.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the 15th century it meant a person's rank or condition (''roys de noble sorte'', 1458), now obsolete.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) The sense “kind, category” is in Watriquet de Couvin (1327), and “manner” about 1485.^(TLFi) ''De sorte que'' (1531), ''de telle sorte que'' (1557), ''faire en sorte que'' (1668) and ''en quelque sorte'' (1650) date from the 16th and 17th centuries.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)^(BHVF) ''Une sorte de'', for something one cannot name exactly, is from 1664.^(TLFi) The verb [[assortir]] (about 1380) is derived from it.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1220 – “Company”, in ''Auberon''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1327 – “Kind”, in Watriquet de Couvin.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1380 – ''Assortir''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1458 – “Rank”, in Arnoul Greban.^(TLFi)

+ * 1531 – ''De sorte que''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1650 – ''En quelque sorte'', in Corneille.^(BHVF)

+ * 1664 – ''Une sorte de''.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|sort]], kind, type: ''toutes sortes de gens''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''Une sorte de'': a kind of, something like.^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # Manner, way: ''de la sorte'', ''de cette sorte''.^(Wiktionary)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''De sorte que'', ''en sorte que'': so that, ''faire en sorte que'': to see to it that.^(Wiktionary)^(TLFi)

+ # ''En quelque sorte'': in a way, as it were.^(Wiktionary)^(BHVF)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[assortir]]

+ * [[assortiment]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sort]]

+ * [[la|sors]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}