accueillir French · revision 17566

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=1080, Chanson de Roland|origins=la colligō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /a.kœ.jiʁ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''accueillir'''^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French [[m|fro|acueillir]] (1080), [[m|fro|acoillir]], [[m|fro|acoildre]] (12th century).^(DHLF 1992)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|fro|acoillir]], [[inh|la-vul|*accolligō|t=to gather, receive]], a compound of [[m|la|ad-]] and [[m|la|colligō|t=to gather]], which gave [[cueillir]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary) The change from the third to the fourth conjugation is very old;^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Littré 1873) Old French also had an infinitive [[m|fro|acueudre]] that kept the Latin type.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Littré 1873) Cognate with [[ca|acollir]], [[it|accogliere]], [[oc|aculhir]], [[pt|acolher]] and [[es|acoger]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The ''Chanson de Roland'' uses it for being seized: ''Les aquillit e tempeste e oret'', “storm and wind seized them”.^(Littré 1873)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From 1080 to the 14th century Old French gave it many senses: “to gather”, “to join”, “to attack” and “to drive” (cattle), a sense the eastern dialects still have.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Phrases such as ''acoillir sa voie'', “to set out on one's way”, kept the sense “to take”.^(DHLF 1992)^(Littré 1873) The modern sense, to receive someone well or badly, is a favourable narrowing of “to seize, take”; it appears with Chrétien de Troyes and becomes general in the 13th century.^(DHLF 1992) The Grand Robert dates the sense “to receive, admit” to 1292 and its spread to the 17th century.^(Grand Robert 2005) Middle French also used it intransitively for “to enter someone's service”.^(DHLF 1992) Balzac uses it regionally for hiring a servant.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1080 – ''Acueillir'' “to seize”, in the ''Chanson de Roland''.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 12th century – ''Acoillir sa voie'' “to set out”.^(Littré 1873)

+ * 13th century – “To receive someone well or badly”.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1292 – “To receive, admit”.^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 14th–15th centuries – “To enter someone's service”.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|welcome|alt=welcome]], receive someone in a certain way: ''accueillir un ami chaleureusement''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Littré 1873)

+ # To meet someone on arrival: ''ils sont venus m'accueillir à la gare''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # To give [[m|en|hospitality]] to; to admit into a group: ''pays qui accueille les immigrés''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''(of a place)'' To hold, [[m|en|accommodate]]: ''le stade peut accueillir cent mille personnes''.^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # To receive an idea or a proposal: ''le projet a été bien accueilli''.^(Le Robert)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[accueil]]

+ * [[accueillant]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cueillir]]

+ * [[recueillir]]

+ * [[la|colligō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}