arrivé French · revision 17688

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /a.ʁi.ve/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''arrivé''' (feminine '''arrivée''', masculine plural '''arrivés''', feminine plural '''arrivées''')^(TLFi)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the past participle of [[arriver]], used as an adjective and a noun.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi) The verb comes from [[la-vul|*arrīpō|t=to reach the shore]], formed from [[m|la|ad-|t=to]] and [[m|la|rīpa|t=riverbank, shore]], the source of [[rive]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The verb was first a sailors' word meaning to come to the shore (mid-11th century), and by the 16th century this origin was no longer felt outside navigation.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) The participle shares its general sense, “having reached a place”, and was said of an event that has happened.^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873) As an adjective and a noun it also means someone who has succeeded, as in Huysmans's ''les hommes les plus arrivés'' (1883) and Zola's ''femme arrivée''.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Who has reached a destination; [[m|en|present]].^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873)

+ # Who has [[m|en|succeed|alt=succeeded]] socially or professionally: ''un homme arrivé''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # Of an event, that has happened.^(TLFi)^(Littré 1873)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A person who has arrived: ''premier arrivé'', ''dernier arrivé'', ''les nouveaux arrivés''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi)

+ # A person who has succeeded in life, beside the [[arriviste]].^(TLFi)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[arriver]]

+ * [[arrivée]]

+ * [[arriviste]]

+ * [[rive]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Croire que c'est arrivé'', to take something too seriously or think too highly of oneself, is found in 1860, earlier than the 1866 date in the dictionaries.^(BHVF)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}