déplacer French · revision 17576

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /de.pla.se/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''déplacer'''^(Wiktionary)

+ Middle French ''desplacer''.^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[dé-]] and [[place]] with a verb ending;^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Wiktionary) the TLFi also sees it as the opposite of [[m|fr|emplacer]] (see [[emplacement]]).^(TLFi) The noun continues [[la|platea|t=broad street]], which took the sense “public square” in Late Latin.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Littré compares [[pcd|déplacher]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A text of 1404, quoted in a note to the diary of Nicolas de Baye, has ''les avoient desplacé'', “they had moved them”.^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the 16th century the verb was also intransitive, “to leave one's place, march off”, as in Jean Marot and in Montluc's ''Mémoires''.^(Littré 1873) The figurative ''déplacé'' “unseemly, out of place” is recorded by Trévoux in 1752, and ''déplacer la question'' by the Académie in 1835.^(TLFi) Littré (1863–1864) records ''déplacer un fonctionnaire'', to transfer an official, often as a punishment.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989) In physics a ship ''déplace'' its weight in water (1890).^(TLFi) After the Second World War ''personnes déplacées'', for people uprooted by war or politics, appears in Camus.^(TLFi) The reflexive ''se déplacer'', to move about, travel, is common in modern French.^(Wiktionary)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1404 – ''Desplacer'' “to move (something)”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1752 – ''Déplacé'' “unseemly”, in Trévoux.^(TLFi)

+ * 1835 – ''Déplacer la question'', in the Académie.^(TLFi)

+ * 1863 – “To transfer an official”, in Littré.^(TLFi)

+ * 1890 – Of a floating body, in physics.^(TLFi)

+ * 1944–1948 – ''Personnes déplacées'', in Camus.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|move|alt=move]] something from its place: ''déplacer un meuble'', ''déplacer un rendez-vous''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Le Robert)

+ # To transfer someone to another post: ''déplacer un fonctionnaire''; to [[m|en|displace]] a population.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''(figurative)'' ''Déplacer la question'', ''le problème'': to shift the point of a difficulty.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''(nautical)'' Of a ship, to displace a given weight of water: ''navire qui déplace 1 000 tonnes''.^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # ''Se déplacer'': to move about; to [[m|en|travel]].^(Wiktionary)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # ''Déplacer des montagnes'': to move mountains.^(Wiktionary)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[déplacement]]

+ * [[déplaçable]]

+ * [[déplacé]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[place]]

+ * [[placer]]

+ * [[remplacer]]

+ * [[replacer]]

+ * [[la|platea]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}