contractible

contractible: ⇒CONTRACTIBLE, adj.

Qui a la possibilité de se contracter (cf. BALZAC, Théorie de la démarche, 1833, p. 642).

Prononc. :[]. Étymol. et Hist. 1833 (BALZAC, loc. cit. : La pensée (...) si fluide, si expansible, si contractible). Dér. du rad. de contracter « diminuer de volume »; suff. -ible (-able). Fréq. abs. littér. :1.

DÉR. Contractibilité, subst. fém. Qualité de ce qui est contractible. Phalanges (...) d'une contractibilité pénible (F. FABRE, Les Courbezon, 1862, p. 342). P. métaph. cf. BARRÈS, Scènes et doctrines du nationalisme, t. 1, 1902, p. 214. — []. — 1^res attest. 1862 « possibilité de se contracter (ici en parlant de muscles, de tendons) » (F. FABRE, loc. cit.); 1902 fig. (BARRÈS, loc. cit.); du rad. de contractible, suff. -ité (cf. NYROP t. 3, § 341). — Fréq. abs. littér. 1.

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