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La maternité divine de la Vierge Marie en langue française
The Divine Maternity of Virgin Mary in French Language

Author(s): Felicia Dumas
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Universitatea Tehnică "Gheorghe Asachi" din Iaşi
Keywords: divine motherhood; Orthodoxy; French language, discursive usage; Mother of God (Theotokos);

Summary/Abstract: The present article proposes a semantic and lexical analysis of a series of French words referring to the divine motherhood of Virgin Mary, the one who has given birth to the Son of God. Our analysis addresses a wide range of nouns, verbs, adjectives and phrases belonging to the specialized field of Christian religious terminology (and specifically the Orthodox subfield), such as: sein (n.m.) [breast], Théotokos (nom propre) [Theotokos], enfantement (n.m.) [begetting] – enfanter (v.tr.) [beget], maternité divine et virginité de la Mère de Dieu [the divine motherhood and virginity of Virgin Mary], couvrir de l’ombre du Saint-Esprit [abide in the shadow of the Holy Ghost], conception virginale [virginal conception], entrailles (n.m. au pluriel) [womb], irréprochable vs. immaculée (adj.) [blameless versus immaculate], etc., based on their discursive and poetic usage, within a corpus consisting in several liturgical texts of French Orthodoxy.

  • Issue Year: 65/2019
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 23-34
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: French
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