oublier French · revision 17476

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=late 10th century, Passion de Clermont (oblider)|origins=la oblīvīscor}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /u.bli.je/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''oublier'''^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French ''oblider'' (late 10th century), ''oblier'', ''ublier'' (about 1050); ''oublier'' from about 1228.^(GLLF 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|fro|oblier]], [[inh|la-vul|*oblītō]], formed on “oblītus”, the past participle of [[la|oblīvīscor|t=to forget]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(FEW|7, 271b)^(Wiktionary) Rey relates the Latin verb to [[m|la|oblinō|t=to smear over, efface]] and an Indo-European root “*lei-” “to pour a greasy substance”, Littré instead followed Corssen in linking it with [[m|la|līvor|t=bluish colour]], so that it would mean “to grow dim”.^(DHLF 1992)^(Littré 1873)

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+ Cognate with [[ro|uita]], [[oc|oblidar]], [[ca|oblidar]] and [[es|olvidar]]; [[it|obliare]] was borrowed from French.^(REW 1935)^(Wiktionary) Many dialects strengthen it with a prefix (“r-”, “d-”, “es-”).^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ At the end of the 10th century the ''Passion'' of Clermont uses ''oblider'' for “not to keep in mind”; about 1050 the ''Vie de saint Alexis'' has ''Mais la dolur ne pothent ublïer'' “but they could not forget the grief”.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From the first texts it also meant “to neglect” and, in 1214, “to leave something behind by mistake”.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) The reflexive ''s'oublier'' meant “to fail in one's duty” (about 1100); in courtly literature, “to lose consciousness of oneself”, as in a lover's trance (1176–81); later “to put others before oneself” (Montaigne, 1588), and as a euphemism “to relieve oneself in the wrong place” (Zola, 1882).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ''Avoir oublié d'être bête'' “to be no fool” dates from before 1848.^(DHLF 1992) The flower name ''ne m'oubliez mie'' (1408, later ''ne-m'oubliez-pas'') was translated as German ''Vergissmeinnicht'' and English ''forget-me-not''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) The derivative [[oubliette]] dates from 1372–74.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Late 10th century – ''Oblider'' in the ''Passion'' of Clermont.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

+ * c. 1050 – ''Ublïer'' in the ''Vie de saint Alexis''.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1080 – The noun ''oubli''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * c. 1100 – ''S'oublier'' in the ''Chanson de Roland''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1214 – “To leave behind by mistake”.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1408 – ''Ne m'oublie mie'', the forget-me-not.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1588 – ''S'oublier'', self-denial, in Montaigne.^(TLFi)

+ * 1882 – ''S'oublier'' as a euphemism, in Zola.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|forget]]: ''j'ai oublié son nom''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To forget to: ''oublier de fermer la porte''.^(Littré 1873)

+ # To leave behind: ''oublier son parapluie''.^(Wiktionary)^(Larousse)

+ # To neglect; to overlook, forgive: ''oublier une offense''.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''S'oublier'': to forget oneself, misbehave; to think only of others, ''(euphemism)'' of a child or animal, to have an accident.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[oubliette]]

+ * [[oublieux]]

+ * [[oubli]]

+ * [[inoubliable]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[la|oblīvīscor]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}