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unto

conjonctionprépositioncourant dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˈʌntʊ//
  • Royaume-Uni//-tuː//
  • Royaume-Uni//-tə//
  • États-Unis//ˈʌntə//
  • États-Unis//-tuː//

Up to the time or degree that; until.

conjonction

  1. 1

    obsolèteUp to the time or degree that; until.

    Unto This Last (John Ruskin)

Étymologie

Inherited from Middle English unto, from Old English *untō, *und tō, equivalent to un- (“against; toward; up to”) + to. Cognate with Old Frisian ont to ("until"; > Saterland Frisian antou (“until”)) (cf. Old Frisian und (“up to; till”), Old Frisian til (“till; to”)), Old Saxon untō, untuo (“until”), Old High German unze, unzi, unza (“until”), Old Norse und (“as far as; up to”), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌴 (untē, “until; as long as”).

préposition

  1. 1

    archaïqueUp to; indicates a motion towards a thing and then stopping at it.

    Sir Gawain rode unto the nearby castle.

    Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands; Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist, Foot it featly here and there, And sweet sprites bear The burthen.[…]

  2. 2

    archaïqueTo; indicates an indirect object.

    And the Lord said unto Moses […]

    So please my lord the duke and all the court To quit the fine for one half of his goods I am content; so he will let me have The other half in use, to render it, Upon his death, unto the gentleman That lately stole his daughter: Two things provided more,—[…]

    Again, whereas men affirm they perceive an addition of ponderosity in dead bodies, comparing them usually unto blocks and stones, whensoever they lift or carry them; this accessional preponderancy is rather in appearance than reality.

    […] And, doubtless, unto thee is given ⁠A life that bears immortal fruit ⁠In such great offices as suit The full-grown energies of heaven.

  3. 3

    archaïqueDown to the last; encompassing even every.

    ⁠I do but sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing: And unto one her note is gay, ⁠For now her little ones have ranged; ⁠And unto one her note is changed, Because her brood is stol’n away.

Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).