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Roughly speaking, this everyday Latin word

2021-09-16T11:02:49.712Z


This word is an antiquity of the medieval vocabulary of the 14th century. Jean-Loup Chiflet traces the course of this word from Latin.


Don't we have the impression of speaking a popular French, slang, when we use this adverbial expression meaning "

roughly, without going into detail, at first glance

"?

Notwithstanding, according to Littré, we are indeed dealing with an antiquity of the medieval vocabulary of the 14th century, composed of the ablative of

grossus

, “

gros

” and of

modus

, “

manner

”, “

manner

”.

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We can see it in the following text, translated into contemporary French, extract from the

Treaty of Surgery

of Master Henri de Mondeville, surgeon of King Philippe le Bel, written in the year 1314 and kept in the Latin collections of the BnF:

"Now it is impossible to know the part perfectly, if one does not know at least roughly the whole, it is impossible to be a good surgeon if one does not know the most important principles and generalities of medicine. "

However, other sources only place it in the 16th century, in 1566, in the

Preparatory Treatise for the Apology

for Hérodote by Henri Estienne.

Note:

roughly

or

roughly

depending on the period.

Its hyphen disappeared around 1932. It has been adopted by many European languages.

Source: lefigaro

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