origine French · revision 38597

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1461–1466, Jean de Bueil, Le Jouvencel|origins=la orior}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ɔ.ʁi.ʒin/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''origine''' ''f'' (plural origines)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|orīgō|t=source; beginning; descent, ancestry; cause]], taken in the form of its accusative ⟨orīginem⟩,^(TLF-Étym)^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(FEW|7, 416a) a derivative of [[m|la|orior|t=to rise; to spring from; to be born]], which also gave [[orient]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ It replaced its inherited doublet [[m|fro|orine]] (1138, Gaimar), which survived until the 16th century and is still used in the western dialects.^(TLF-Étym)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(GLLF 1989) Littré notes that the old form kept the Latin stress on the syllable ⟨ri⟩, while the modern word was remade on the written Latin form.^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Jean de Bueil's ''Jouvencel'' (1461–1466) says that a deadly plague ''avoir prins naissance, origine et commencement d'une seulle personne'', “had taken its birth, origin and beginning from one single person”: the first appearance of a phenomenon.^(TLF-Étym)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Georges Chastellain uses it about 1462–1470 for the source of things and for a person's descent (''d'excellente origine'').^(TLF-Étym)^(DHLF 1992) The sense “cause” is found in 1537, and the plural for the beginnings of a changing reality in 1549 (Du Bellay, ''l'Origine des Langues''), as later in the title of Ménage's ''Origines de la langue françoise'' (1650).^(TLF-Étym)^(TLFi) The phrases ''dès l'origine'' (1566), ''à l'origine'' (1603) and ''tirer son origine de'' (1634) followed, and Nicot speaks of the ''origine du mot'' in 1606.^(TLF-Étym)

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+ Technical senses developed in medicine, for the point where a nerve or organ starts (about 1450–1500), and in mathematics, for the point from which coordinates are measured (1679, La Hire).^(TLF-Étym) Cotgrave (1611) uses it for an animal's pedigree.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) The ''certificat d'origine'' of goods is recorded in 1784, and ''origine des espèces'' (1862) is a calque of the title of Darwin's book in Clémence Royer's translation.^(TLF-Étym)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1138 – The inherited form ''orine'' (Gaimar).^(GLLF 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 1461–1466 – Jean de Bueil: the first appearance of a phenomenon.^(TLF-Étym)

+ * c. 1470 – Chastellain: descent, ancestry.^(TLF-Étym)^(TLFi)

+ * 1537 – “Cause”.^(TLF-Étym)

+ * 1549 – Du Bellay: ''l'Origine des Langues''.^(TLF-Étym)

+ * 1603 – ''À l'origine''.^(TLF-Étym)

+ * 1606 – Nicot: the ''origine'' of a word.^(TLF-Étym)

+ * 1679 – La Hire: the origin of coordinates.^(TLF-Étym)

+ * 1784 – ''Certificat d'origine''.^(TLF-Étym)

+ * 1862 – ''L'origine des espèces'', Royer's translation of Darwin.^(TLF-Étym)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|ancestry|alt=Ancestry]], descent; the people, class or country one comes from: ''une famille d'origine paysanne''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Le Robert)^(Larousse)

+ # ''(of animals)'' [[m|en|pedigree|alt=Pedigree]].^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi)

+ # The time, place or milieu a thing comes from; [[m|en|provenance]]: ''un mot d'origine arabe'', ''pays d'origine''.^(Larousse)^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # The beginning, first appearance of something, ''à l'origine'', at first, ''dès l'origine'', from the start.^(Larousse)^(TLF-Étym)

+ # The cause or source of something, ''être à l'origine de'', to be behind, cause.^(Larousse)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''(mathematics)'' The point from which coordinates or distances are measured.^(Littré 1873)^(TLF-Étym)

+ # ''(anatomy)'' The point where a nerve, vessel or muscle begins.^(Littré 1873)^(TLF-Étym)

+ # ''D'origine'': of certified provenance, original, ''appellation d'origine contrôlée''.^(Wiktionary)^(TLF-Étym)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[originaire]]

+ * [[original]]

+ * [[originel]]

+ * [[orient]]

+ * [[fro|orine]]

+ * [[la|orīgō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}