infirmier French · revision 17647

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=1398|origins=la īnfirmus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɛ̃.fiʁ.mje/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''infirmier''' ''m'' (plural infirmiers, feminine infirmière)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French [[m|fro|enfermier]] (1288–1675); ''infirmier'' from 1398.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989) The feminine ''infirmière'' is recorded in 1765, in the Encyclopédie.^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a remaking, after [[infirme]] and [[infirmité]], of Old French [[m|fro|enfermier]], derived from the old adjective [[m|fro|enferm|t=sick]], which came from [[la|īnfirmus|t=weak, infirm]].^(TLFi)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005) Bloch and Wartburg note that although it was remade on that adjective, the word kept its old sense.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Littré compares [[pro|enfermier]], [[es|enfermero]] and [[it|infermiere]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ ''Enfermier'' (1288) named the person who looked after the sick in an infirmary or a hospital, often in a religious house; the form ''infirmier'' is first found in 1398.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In a 15th-century tale an ''enfermiere'' tends a sick lady, and a monastic document mentions the ''enfermier'' among the officers of a convent.^(Littré 1873) The word has kept the sense of a person who looks after the sick, now a qualified health professional who gives care under a doctor's direction.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi) The feminine ''infirmière'' appears in the Encyclopédie (1765); ''infirmier-major'' is recorded in 1873.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989) The noun [[infirmerie]] dates from 1606, after medieval ''enfermerie''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1288 – ''Enfermier''.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1398 – ''Infirmier''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1606 – ''Infirmerie''.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

+ * 1675 – Last record of ''enfermier'', in Oudin.^(TLFi)

+ * 1765 – ''Infirmière'' in the Encyclopédie.^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 1873 – ''Infirmier-major''.^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|nurse]], a qualified person who cares for the sick under a doctor's direction: ''infirmière à domicile''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(military)'' A medical orderly: ''infirmier militaire''.^(GLLF 1989)^(TLFi)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # Relating to nursing: ''le personnel infirmier''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[infirmerie]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[infirme]]

+ * [[infirmité]]

+ * [[la|īnfirmus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}