angle French · revision 38625

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 1170, Livre des Rois|origins=la angulus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ɑ̃ɡl/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''angle''' ''m'' (plural angles)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|fro|angle]], [[inh|la|angulus|t=corner; angle]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|24, 570b) Bloch and Wartburg note that the Latin word is certainly popular only in [[ro|unghi]], and that [[it|angolo]] and the French word may have been taken again from Latin.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ Rey connects the Latin noun with [[grc|ἀγκών|tr=ankṓn|t=elbow]] and, like [[m|grc|ἄγκυρα|tr=ánkura|t=anchor]], with an Indo-European stem expressing curvature; it corresponds to [[m|grc|ἀγκύλος|tr=ankúlos|t=bent, crooked]] and [[xcl|անկիւն|tr=ankiwn|t=corner]], and is akin to [[m|la|uncus|t=hook]].^(DHLF 1992)

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+ Compare [[pro|angle]] and [[es|ángulo]].^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in the ''Livre des Rois'' (about 1170) for the corners of Jerusalem, where altars were set up: ''par tuz les angles de Jerusalem''.^(Littré 1873)^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989) The first sense was concrete, the corner of a building or a street.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Old French also used ''angle'' for a narrow space, a nook (12th–14th centuries), a sense it later gave up to [[coin]].^(DHLF 1992) It was used abstractly from 1370, by Oresme, and became a word of geometry with ''angle droit'' (1377), ''obtus'' (1542) and ''aigu'' (1585, after Rabelais's ''angle acut'').^(DHLF 1992)

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+ Fortification added ''angle mort'' (1690), optics ''angle d'incidence'' and ''de réflexion'' (Descartes, 1637), and cinema and photography ''angle de champ'' (1948).^(DHLF 1992) In ordinary speech, ''sous un certain angle'' (1898) and ''sous l'angle de'' (about 1920) mean “from a certain point of view”, and ''arrondir les angles'' (mid-20th century) “to smooth things over”.^(DHLF 1992) The French derivatives have mostly fallen out of use; [[angulaire]] is a learned adjective based on [[m|la|angulāris]].^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1170 – ''Angle'' in the ''Livre des Rois''.^(DHLF 1992)^(Littré 1873)

+ * 1370 – Abstract use, in Oresme.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1377 – ''Angle droit''; the adjective ''angulaire''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1542 – ''Angle obtus''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1585 – ''Angle aigu''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1637 – Descartes's ''angle d'incidence''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1690 – ''Angle mort'' in fortification.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1898 – ''Sous un certain angle''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1948 – ''Angle de champ'' in cinema and photography.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|corner]], the projecting or re-entrant place where two lines or surfaces meet: ''la maison qui fait l'angle'', ''un meuble d'angle''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary) ''À l'angle de'': on the corner of.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(figurative)'' A sharp side of someone's character.^(Petit Robert 2007) ''Arrondir les angles'': to smooth things over.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(DHLF 1992)

+ # ''(geometry)'' An [[m|en|angle]], the figure formed by two lines or planes that meet: ''angle droit'', ''aigu'', ''obtus''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # A point of view, an aspect: ''sous l'angle de'', from the point of view of.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''Angle mort'': a [[m|en|blind spot]].^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[coin]]

+ * [[angulaire]]

+ * [[triangle]]

+ * [[rectangle]]

+ * [[la|angulus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Angle'' with a capital is the name of a member of the Angles, the Germanic people, from [[la|Anglus]].^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}