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[ Proposition d'ajout à la Grande Famille MENER ]
- Beneath her decorous demeanor, New York style icon Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis cursed like a sailor.
= Malgré son attitude "bien comme il faut", Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, l'icône de l'élégance new-yorkaise, jurait comme un charretier.
[ The NY Post - 27.03.2013 ]
demeanor
- (behaviour) comportement / attitude / conduite
- (bearing) maintien
ETYMOLOGIE [ etymonline ]
- du verbe (vieilli) du moyen-anglais to demean (= manier, mener, diriger, conduire), dérivé de l'ancien fr. demener
à ne pas confondre avec l'autre verbe homographe to demean (= avilir, rabaisser, humilier)
etymonline a écrit: |
demeanor (n.)
late 15c., from obsolete Middle English demean "handle, manage, conduct," later "behave in a certain way" (early 14c.), from Old French demener (11c.) "to guide, conduct; to live, dwell," from de- "completely" (see de-) + mener "to lead, direct,"
from Latin minare "to threaten," in Late Latin "to drive (a herd of animals);" see menace.
Sense in English evolved from notion of "conduct, manage" (oneself). Spelling changed by influence of nouns in -or, -our. |
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