à jour

See also: ajour and a jour

French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a ʒuʁ/

• Audio (Paris)

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• Homophone: ajour

Adjective

à jour (invariable)

1. up-to-date, current

Related terms

• mettre à jour
• tenir à jour

Descendants

• → Danish: ajour
• → Norwegian Bokmål: à jour, a jour
• → Swedish: ajour

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• a jour

Etymology

From French à jour (“up-to-date”), first part from Middle French [Term?], from Old French a (“to”), from Latin ad (“to”), from Proto-Italic *ad (“to”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“to”). Last part from French jour (“day”), from Old French jorn, jor (“day”), from Latin diurnum [tempus], from diurnus (“daily”), from earlier *diusnus, from both diūs, from Old Latin, from Proto-Italic *djous (“day”) from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“sky”), from earlier *dyéws, from *dyew- (“to be bright”) and *s (creates nouns) + and from -nus (forms adjectives), from Proto-Italic *-nos, from Proto-Indo-European *-nós (forms verbal adjectives).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈʃʉːr/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʉːr
• Hyphenation: à‧jour
• Homophone: a jour

Adverb

à jour

1. up to date (especially in accounting)
   • 1920, Jonas Lie, Samlede Digterverker III, page 357:

     der laa arbeide der i denne tid mindst for to, før han kom à jour

     there was work there at this time at least for two, before he came up to date

   • 2013, Tor Åge Bringsværd, Ikke fordi den har et svar, men fordi den har en sang, page X:

     jeg [måtte] gjøre et alvorlig forsøk på å komme litt mer ajour med listen min

     I [had to] make a serious effort to get a little more up to date with my list

   • 2013, Karin Fossum, Carmen Zita og døden:

     du har selvfølgelig krav på å være ajour med det vi har av funn

     you are of course entitled to be up to date with what we have of discoveries

   • 2013 August 1, Aftenposten, page 9:

     skolebøkene bagatelliserer [språkforskeren Ivar] Aasen. De skriver om den fattige stakkaren og er ikke faglig à jour

     the textbooks downplay [linguist Ivar] Aasen. They write about the poor poor man and are not professionally up to date

   • 1987, Terje Stigen, Katedralen:

     nå var det ikke om å gjøre å holde seg ajour med kalenderen, den var ikke lenger en nødsrasjon, en siste reserve

     now it was not about keeping up with the calendar, it was no longer an emergency ration, a last resort

   • 2001 July 15, Bergens Tidende, page 30:

     det er her [hos frisøren] og hos tannlegen man holder seg ajour med hva Se og Hør velger å skrive om

     it is here [at the hairdresser] and at the dentist that you stay up to date with what Se og Hør chooses to write about

   bringe/føre/holde à jour ― bringing/keeping/staying up to date

   komme/bli à jour ― become up to date (with all of today's work, finish all of today's tasks)

   være à jour ― be up to date (in accounting), be oriented about something, have the most knowledge about a subject

   være à jour med betalingen

   being up to date with payments

   holde (seg/noen) à jour ― keep (themselves or someone) up to date, keep (themselves or someone) informed of something

2. (geology) transparent

   en edelsten som er à jour

   a gemstone which is transparent

Derived terms

• ajourføre
• ajourinnfattet
• ajournement
• ajournere

 

References

• jour “à jour” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “à jour” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “à jour” in Store norske leksikon

Swedish

Adjective

à jour

1. Alternative spelling of ajour