interrompre French · revision 17530

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=first half of the 12th century, Oxford Psalter|origins=la rumpō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁɔ̃pʁ/^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA: /ɛ̃.te.ʁɔ̃pʁ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''interrompre'''^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French [[m|fro|entrerumpre]] (early 12th century), [[m|fro|entrerompre]] (still used in the early 17th century); Middle French ''interrumpre'' (1501), ''interrompre'' (1515–1520).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|interrumpō|t=to break apart; to interrupt]], from [[m|la|inter-|t=between]] and [[m|la|rumpō|t=to break]] (see [[rompre]]).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(FEW|4, 762b) The Old French forms were adapted to [[entre]] and the simple verb; the modern form is a remaking after the Latin.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Wiktionary calls the Old French verb a calque of the Latin one.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The Oxford Psalter (first half of the 12th century) has ''entrerumpre'' in the Latin sense “to split”: God ''entrerumpiet la pierre el desert''.^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The sense “to split, break” lasted until the 17th century.^(DHLF 1992) About 1195 Ambroise uses it for stopping something from going on, and ''interrompre la parolle à quelqu'un'' “to cut someone short” is in the ''Cent nouvelles nouvelles'' (1456–1467); Amyot (1559) has ''interrompre quelqu'un''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) The polite formula ''sans vous interrompre'' is from 1671, now out of use, and ''s'interrompre'' from 1675.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ It was applied to space in 1694 (''interrompre un chemin''), and in 1789 to disturbing someone at work.^(DHLF 1992) In 17th-century novels it was used after direct speech, ''interrompit Catherine''.^(BHVF) Law keeps ''interrompre la prescription''.^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * First half of the 12th century – ''Entrerumpre'' “to split”, in the Oxford Psalter.^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1195 – “To stop (something) going on”, in Ambroise.^(TLFi)

+ * 1456–1467 – ''Interrompre la parolle à''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1501 – The form ''interrumpre''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1515–1520 – The form ''interrompre'', in Marot.^(TLFi)

+ * 1559 – ''Interrompre quelqu'un'', in Amyot.^(TLFi)

+ * 1675 – ''S'interrompre''.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To break the continuity of: ''interrompre un circuit électrique''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Le Robert)

+ # To [[m|en|interrupt]], break off, [[m|en|suspend]]: ''interrompre ses études'', ''interrompre un voyage''.^(Le Robert)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # To interrupt (someone), to cut short: ''ne m'interrompez pas''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # ''S'interrompre'': to stop, break off (speaking or doing something).^(Petit Robert 2007)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''(law)'' ''Interrompre la prescription'': to stop the period of limitation running.^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ininterrompu]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[interruption]]

+ * [[interrupteur]]

+ * [[rompre]]

+ * [[la|interrumpō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}