recouvrir French · revision 17658

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 1160, Roman d'Eneas|origins=la cooperiō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ʁə.ku.vʁiʁ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''recouvrir'''^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French [[m|fro|recovrir]] (about 1130); ''recouvrir'' from the late 12th century.^(GLLF 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|fr|re-|couvrir]].^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989) The verb [[couvrir]] continues [[la|cooperiō|t=to cover completely]], formed on [[m|la|operiō|t=to cover]]; the Romance languages all dropped the simple verb in favour of the more forceful compound.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(FEW|2, 1143a) Cognate with [[pro|recobrir]] and [[it|ricoprire]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ In the ''Roman d'Eneas'' (about 1160) the pronominal verb means to cover oneself again.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From about 1160–74 (Wace) it also meant to cover completely.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989) At the end of the 13th century it took the figurative sense of hiding something under deceptive appearances, as in Flaubert's ''la distinction du jeune praticien recouvrait une intelligence des plus pauvres''.^(GLLF 1989) In 1949 Simone de Beauvoir uses it for corresponding exactly to something, a sense used of a word or notion that covers a range of meanings.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1130 – ''Recovrir''.^(GLLF 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * c. 1160 – “To cover oneself again”, in the ''Roman d'Eneas''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1160–74 – Wace: “to cover completely”.^(TLFi)

+ * Late 13th century – “To hide, mask”.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1949 – Beauvoir: “to correspond exactly to”.^(TLFi)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To cover again; to put a new covering on: ''recouvrir un fauteuil, un livre''; to cover up (a child in bed).^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|cover]] completely: ''la neige recouvre le sol''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To hide, [[m|en|mask]].^(GLLF 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # Of a notion, to coincide with, cover the same range as.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''Se recouvrir'': to overlap.^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[couvrir]]

+ * [[découvrir]]

+ * [[recouvrement]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}