au revoir

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French au revoir, with relatively formal but otherwise identical meaning, possibly due to the cumbersome nature of formal English equivalents.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊ.ɹə ˈvwɑː/ or IPA^(key): /ɔːɹ ˈvwɑː/, or pronounced as in French, IPA^(key): /o.ʁə ˈvwaʁ/ or IPA^(key): /ɔʁ ˈvwaʁ/.
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊ.ɹə ˈvwɑɹ/ or IPA^(key): /ˌɑ.ɹə ˈvwɑɹ/.

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Interjection

au revoir

1. Goodbye; till we meet again.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:goodbye

   • 2000 January 22, Philipp Goedicke, Carl Kasell (announcer), “Listener Limerick Challenge”, Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio

     Though about it the South used to brag / I’m afraid it’s become such a drag / We should say au revoir / To the old stars and bars

   • 2001 November 23, Jack Hassell, “Au Revoir!”, Object Management Group, mail archive, www.omg.org [1]

     After about 40++ TC meetings and over seven years, it's time to say "au revoir" - at least for now.

   • 2015, David George Surdam, “Economics”, in Trey Strecker, Steven P. Gietschier, Mitchell Nathanson, John A. Fortunato, David George Surdam, Understanding Baseball: A Textbook, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 83:

     To feed the family four hot dogs, two beers, two sodas, and a tray of nachos, you can kiss another Ulysses Grant au revoir (hey, you might as well learn a few foreign phrases while studying sports).

Translations

Translations

• Bulgarian: довиждане (bg) (doviždane)
• Catalan: a reveure (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 再見 / 再见 (zoi³ gin³)

  Mandarin: 再見 / 再见 (zh) (zàijiàn)

• Finnish: näkemiin (fi)
• French: au revoir (fr)
• Greek: ορεβουάρ (el) (orevouár), στο επανιδείν (el) (sto epanideín)
• Interlingua: a revider
• Indonesian: sampai jumpa (id), selamat tinggal (id)
• Japanese: また今度 (mata kondo)
• Malay: jumpa lagi
• Polish: do widzenia (pl)
• Portuguese: até mais (pt)
• Spanish: adiós (es), hasta la vista (es)

French

Etymology

Literally, “until the reseeing”. Ultimately from Latin ad + Latin illum + Latin re- + Latin videō. Cognate with Italian arrivederci, Romanian la revedere, and Catalan a reveure.

Compare Spanish hasta la vista as well as parallel and more distant cognates Bulgarian довиждане (doviždane), Russian до свида́ния (do svidánija), Ukrainian до побачення (do pobačennja), Polish do zobaczenia, and Arabic إلى اللقاء.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o ʁə.vwaʁ/, (colloquial) /ɔʁ.vwaʁ/

• Audio (France):

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Interjection

au revoir

1. goodbye

   Synonyms: (informal) salut; (informal) à plus tard; (informal) à plus; (informal) bye; (informal) bye-bye; (informal) ciao; (informal) à la revoyure

Descendants

• Louisiana Creole: aréwa
• Haitian Creole: orevwa
• Mauritian Creole: orevwar
• Seychellois Creole: orevwar

Anagrams

• ouvrerai