sobriety

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Sobriety describes a sober state or a sober manner in the German language.

The term can refer to different areas, such as “not drunk; not having drunk alcohol ”,“ without having eaten or drank anything ”as well as“ limiting oneself to the factually given, expedient ”or“ oriented toward the expedient; without decorative accessories ”. Obsolete soberly also means “no seasoning, not enough salt”. Cold , cool and thrift are considered synonyms .

origin

The adjective (or adjective ) sober - for 'not having eaten or drank, on an empty stomach, not drunk', also translates 'level-headed, dispassionate, unimaginative', ahd. Nuohturn (10th / 11th century; also the further training nuohturnīn , around 1000, as in nuohturnīn sīn 'abstain from something'), mhd. sober , also already 'not drunk', mnd. next , mnl. sober , sober , nl. nuchter - is a borrowed from the Latin nocturnus for 'nocturnal', which, by adapting to the local names for '[the] morning morning, twilight' - ahd. uohta (around 1000), mhd. uohte , uhte , nhd. (scenic) Ucht, asächs. ūhta , mnd. ucht (related to night ) - originated.

It is probably etymologically a word that originated in the monasteries with the meaning `` existing at dawn, early morning, in the state of early morning '', i.e. `` not having eaten or drunk anything '', especially in the time of the morning after sleep worship service before morning meal. This resulted in sobriety (early 15th century). sobering up for 'recovering from drunkenness ' (17th century); Sobering up (mid-19th century), sobering up ' to recover from an intoxication after a plentiful meal ', mhd. Sobering up , 'sb. to tear out of a heightened mood '(18th century); Disillusionment (2nd half of the 19th century).

Colloquial usage

In addition to the transferred meaning (e.g. that someone has a sober character), there are colloquial ambivalent meanings of sober in relation to the consumption of food and drinks: On the one hand in the sense of "no alcohol consumed in the last few hours" (e.g. B. Alcohol abstinence when participating in road traffic), on the other hand in the sense of “no food consumed in the last few hours” (so-called food abstinence before medical measures).

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: sober  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: sobriety  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sobriety, which , in duden.de, accessed on October 18, 2012.
  2. nüchtern , duden.de, accessed on October 18, 2012.
  3. ^ Etymological dictionary of German according to Pfeifer , DWDS , accessed on October 18, 2012