What did “chance” mean?
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Chance.
Aged.
Risque, péril ”, one finds, among other definitions of the word chance, in the Treasury of the French language completed in 1994. The authors of the dictionary would they have been mistaken in their expertise?
Nothing, since the French Academy also notes these adjectives for the third meaning of the word offered in its ninth edition, that of the twenty-first century.
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What is the origin of the word chance?
Where is he from ?
From the Middle-East.
It was borrowed from the Arabic az-zahr (playing dice) via the Spanish azar denoting a game of dice.
However, it is not impossible that it comes from the classical Arabic zahr (flower) because a flower would have been represented on one of the faces of the dice.
Anyway, it is a question of dice that are thrown as is the case at the origin of the word luck.
Is this a coincidence?
In the 12th century, the word was not limited to luck or bad luck.
But very quickly, the hazard will show a "bad move", and in the 15th century, the hazard, of random spelling, becomes
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