inquiet French · revision 17567

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1588, Montaigne|origins=la quiēs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɛ̃.kjɛ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inquiet''' (feminine inquiète, masculine plural inquiets, feminine plural inquiètes)^(Wiktionary)

+ First written ''inquiete'' for both genders (Montaigne, 1588); ''inquiet'' from 1596.^(GLLF 1989)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a learned borrowing [[bor|la|inquiētus|t=restless, troubled]], formed from [[m|la|in-|t=not]] and [[m|la|quiētus|t=at rest]], from [[m|la|quiēs|t=rest]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005) The verb [[inquiéter]] (12th century) and the noun [[inquiétude]] (1406) are older borrowings of the same family.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary) The inherited form of [[m|la|quiētus]] is [[coi]] “quiet”.^(DHLF 1992)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Montaigne uses ''inquiete'' in the ''Essais'' (1588) for what finds no rest, restless, turbulent: ''cette volubilité soupple et inquiete'' of the mind.^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Until the 17th century the word kept the Latin sense of physical or moral agitation; since then it has narrowed to agitation caused by fear.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Hulsius in 1596 records “troubled by passion or fear”, and Corneille in 1662 uses it for what shows unease (''sa flamme inquiète'').^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Bossuet in 1669 applies it to a person never content with their state, the source of the positive “restless, searching mind”.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) Of sleep it means troubled (1671), and La Fontaine in 1678 uses it of a restless young man.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989) The modern everyday sense is “worried, anxious”.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Le Robert)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1588 – ''Inquiete'' “restless”, in Montaigne.^(TLFi)

+ * 1596 – “Troubled by fear”, in Hulsius.^(TLFi)

+ * 1611 – The adverb ''inquiètement'', in Cotgrave.^(TLFi)

+ * 1662 – “Showing unease”, in Corneille.^(TLFi)

+ * 1669 – “Never satisfied”, in Bossuet.^(TLFi)

+ * 1671 – ''Sommeil inquiet''.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|worried|alt=Worried]], [[m|en|anxious]]: ''elle est inquiète de votre silence'', ''je suis inquiet à son sujet''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Le Robert)

+ # Showing worry: ''un regard inquiet''.^(Le Robert)^(Littré 1873)

+ # ''(dated)'' [[m|en|restless|alt=Restless]], agitated: ''sommeil inquiet''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''(literary)'' Never satisfied with one's state: ''une curiosité inquiète''.^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # ''(literary, of things)'' Ever moving: ''une mer inquiète''.^(TLFi)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A worrier: ''c'est une inquiète''.^(Le Robert)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[inquiéter]]

+ * [[inquiétude]]

+ * [[inquiètement]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[coi]]

+ * [[quiet]]

+ * [[quitte]]

+ * [[quiétude]]

+ * [[la|inquiētus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}