révéler French · revision 17498

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1120, Cambridge Psalter|origins=la vēlum}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ʁe.ve.le/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''révéler'''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|revēlō|t=to uncover, unveil]], from [[m|la|re-]] marking movement back and [[m|la|vēlō|t=to cover, veil]] (see [[voiler]]), from [[m|la|vēlum|t=veil]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)^(FEW|10, 349b) In Late Latin Christian writers used it for God's making knowledge known to men, the sense in which it was first borrowed.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It first appears in the Cambridge Psalter (first half of the 12th century) in the religious sense “to make known by divine revelation”.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The general sense “to make known what was unknown or secret” is in Wace's ''Roman de Rou'' (1160–1174): ''n'est chose si reposte qui ne soit revelee''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Descartes has ''vérité révélée'' (1637), and ''religion révélée'' is recorded in 1725.^(TLFi) Racine used it with a person as object, “to reveal the identity of” (1691).^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ With a thing as subject it came to mean “to be the sign of” (Chénier, 1794).^(TLFi) The photographic sense “to develop” (1895) probably follows [[révélateur]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Reflexive ''se révéler'' “to be disclosed” is in Montesquieu (1715); “to show oneself in a new light” is from 1807, and of a sportsman or actor, to show one's talent (1886, 1906); with an adjective it means “to prove (to be)” (1875, Proust 1922).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1120 – Religious sense, in the Cambridge Psalter.^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1160–1174 – “To disclose a secret”, in Wace.^(TLFi)

+ * 1637 – ''Vérité révélée'', in Descartes.^(TLFi)

+ * 1715 – ''Se révéler'', in Montesquieu.^(TLFi)

+ * 1725 – ''Religion révélée''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1794 – “To be the sign of”, in Chénier.^(TLFi)

+ * 1886 – Of a sportsman showing his talent.^(TLFi)

+ * 1895 – Photographic sense.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|reveal]], disclose (what was unknown or secret): ''révéler ses intentions''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Le Robert)

+ # ''(religion)'' To make known by [[révélation|alt=revelation]]: ''les religions révélées''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # To show, be the sign of.^(GLLF 1989)^(TLFi)

+ # ''Révéler quelqu'un à lui-même'': to make someone discover what they really are.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Le Robert)

+ # ''(photography)'' To [[m|en|develop]] (an image).^(Wiktionary)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''Se révéler'': to show oneself, to come out; with an adjective, to prove (to be).^(Wiktionary)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[révélé]]

+ * [[révélable]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[révélation]]

+ * [[révélateur]]

+ * [[voile]]

+ * [[voiler]]

+ * [[la|revēlō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}