fabriquer French · revision 17593

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /fa.bʁi.ke/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''fabriquer'''^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French ''favricher'', ''fabricher'', ''fabriker'';^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989) ''fabriquer'' from the 16th century.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|fabricō|t=to shape, make]], from [[m|la|fabrica|t=craft, workshop]], a derivative of [[m|la|faber|t=craftsman working hard materials]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) The popular outcome of the same Latin verb is [[forger]], its doublet.^(Wiktionary)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Latin [[m|la|faber]] gave Old French [[m|fro|fevre|t=smith]], which survives in [[orfèvre]] and in the surnames Fèvre and Lefèvre.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The Oxford Psalter (first half of the 12th century) renders Latin ''fabricaverunt peccatores'' as ''favricherent li peccheur'', “the sinners plotted”;^(TLFi) at the end of the 12th century a translation of the Song of Songs has ''fabricher'' for making something by hand.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The verb was rare before the 16th century.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005) Montaigne writes that wickedness ''fabrique des torments contre soy'' (1580).^(Littré 1873)^(GLLF 1989) The industrial sense, turning raw materials into manufactured goods, is in Furetière in 1690, and ''fabricant'' in 1604.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) The idea of deceit, already present in Latin, lives on in ''fabriquer de faux papiers'' and ''fabriquer une calomnie''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Littré 1873) Sainte-Beuve in 1828 uses it of a work made by technique instead of being felt.^(TLFi) In familiar French ''qu'est-ce que tu fabriques ?'' means “what are you up to?” (1879); old slang also used it for “to arrest” (1876), “to cheat” (1878) and “to steal” (1887).^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * First half of the 12th century – “To plot”, in the Oxford Psalter.^(TLFi)

+ * Late 12th century – “To make by hand”.^(TLFi)

+ * 1580 – In Montaigne.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1604 – ''Fabricant''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1690 – The industrial sense, in Furetière.^(TLFi)

+ * 1828 – Of an artificial work, in Sainte-Beuve.^(TLFi)

+ * 1879 – ''Qu'est-ce que tu fabriques ?''^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To make something by working a material: ''il a fabriqué lui-même ces étagères''.^(Le Robert)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # To [[m|en|manufacture|alt=manufacture]], produce goods from raw materials by industrial processes: ''fabriquer en série''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # To make up in order to deceive, [[m|en|fabricate]]: ''fabriquer de faux papiers'', ''de fausses nouvelles''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Littré 1873)

+ # ''(familiar)'' To be doing, be up to: ''qu'est-ce que tu fabriques ?''^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Le Robert)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[fabricant]]

+ * [[fabrication]]

+ * [[préfabriquer]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fabricateur]]

+ * [[fabrique]]

+ * [[forger]]

+ * [[orfèvre]]

+ * [[la|fabricō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}