Cotery
Koterie (French coterie ) is an outdated term for a closed group (closed society, wreath ) and was mainly used negatively for a clique .
For example, Karl Marx formulated in 1859: “At the same time, Lord Derby's accession to power gave a coterie of the ruling class the signal to rush in and fill the posts that had just become vacant.” Marx used the term several times in his writings.
With Gottfried Keller one reads: "Because it didn’t take long before you only heard the words fee, publisher, clique, coterie and anything else that stimulates the anger of such people and occupies your imagination."
While the word has not been used generally in German for a long time, the coterie , which is also borrowed from French, is common in English. It describes an exclusive group with a common interest, often pejorative in the sense of Klüngel .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sachs-Villatte, [...] dictionary. Hand and school edition. 4. Editing 1917, Vol. 1, p. 223 translated: Klatschgesellschaft, Koterie, Koterie . See also http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/coterie and the entry in the Littre coterie in Le Dictionnaire de Français Littré
- ↑ cotery . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 10, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 121.
- ↑ http://www.mlwerke.de/me/me12/me12_668.htm
- ↑ http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&lr=&q=+site:www.mlwerke.de+koterie
- ↑ Gottfried Keller : The abused love letters in the Gutenberg-DE project
- ↑ Hans Josef Zander, Praise of Stupidity, 15 reports with meaning