La grammaticalisation de latus, -eris, nt., « côté », en un adverbe-préposition de latus, « à côté (de) », et une préposition latus, de même sens, dans les Casae litterarum
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2012
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Danièle Conso, « La grammaticalisation de latus, -eris, nt., « côté », en un adverbe-préposition de latus, « à côté (de) », et une préposition latus, de même sens, dans les Casae litterarum », MOM Éditions, ID : 10670/1.zb4x98
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A text from Late Antiquity, the Casae litterarum, part of the Roman Land Surveyors Corpus, provides rather numerous occurrences of the phrase de latus, which is used as a preposition (“next to”) and as an adverb (“nearby”, “to the side”, “sidewise”); the text also affords a very few instances of the preposition latus (“next to”, “beside”). It is quite likely that these are the oldest occurrences of the prepositions and of the adverb, which were created in late Latin and led to old French delez and lez; delez and lez are no longer used in modern French, but lès still appears in numerous names of towns, which got their name referring to that of a neighbouring and larger town, for example Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon.