MOMENTO

momentos

momentáneo, momentáneamente DLE

121 CDEGH, 102 CDEWP, 130 J&C-R

& el peccado que ellos deuían enmendar en un momento quieren defender por muchos annos (CORDE: Anón., Fuero Juzgo, c.1250-1260)

The notion of 'movement' is distinctively rendered by movimiento, taken by Cor to be a derivative of the inherited verb mover.

» ‘very short space of time’ or ‘point in time’

& el peccado que ellos deuían enmendar en un momento quieren defender por muchos annos (CORDE: Anón., Fuero Juzgo, c.1250-1260)

» 'importance' (parallel to and maybe a calque of Lat. maximi momenti).

Y entre los muchos que inventó dió en uno que a ponerlo en execución fuera de gran momento para su fin, el qual era armar los cativos Cristianos que tenía y particulares avía mil.(CORDE: Diego de Torres, Relación del origen y suceso de los Xarifes y del estado de los reinos de Marruecos, Fez y Tarudante, before 1575)

Especially frequent in time expressions: en (aqu)este/(aqu)ese/aquel momento, which rise in frequency from the 17C.

Momento sicológico: see French Collocational history, moment psychologique.

plural

momentâneo, momentoso Houaiss

175 Davies & Preto-Bay 2008, 120 CDPWP

Reçebendo della muyto mayor aiuda porque nom poderia per huû soo momento durar se nom fosse sostheuda per outrem. (CDPGH: Livro da virtuosa bemfeitoria do infante Dom Pedro, 1430-1443)

The notion of 'movement' is distinctively rendered by movimento, said by Houaiss to be a calque from French.

plural

[to be completed]

148 Lonsdale & Le Bras 2009

affondree est en .I. moment (FRANTEXT: Anon., Le roman d’Eneas, c 1160)

» 'short space of time', 'point in time'

emplie l'a soudeement : / affondree est en .I. moment (FRANTEXT: Anon., Le roman d'Eneas, c.1160)

Le foudre se destourne avec le vent d'un chapeau, et les fortunes des grands estats avec un petit moment. (FRANTEXT: Pierre Charron, De la sagesse: trois livres, 1601)

» 'occasion, circumstance'

certains moments favorables et décisifs (TLF, La Rochefoucauld, Oeuvres, 1654-1659)

» 'present time' (le moment)

suivre sans regle l'impulsion du moment (TLF: Rousseau, Confessions, c.1770)

The meaning 'importance' is not usual in French.

» In meaning of 'short space of time', very frequently used in the expression en un moment.

» Especially frequent in time expressions: en/à ce moment(-là), which rise in frequency from the 17C.

» dernier moment from 15C (TLF)

» moment psychologique, a calque of Germ. das psychologische Moment, which was used at the time of the bombardment of Paris in 1870 in the Franco-Prussian War in the sense of ‘the decisive factor, the reason’. Le moment psychologique came to mean ‘the opportune, appropriate moment’ through misinterpretation of Germ. das Moment (neuter) ‘factor, element’ as der Moment (masculine) ‘moment’ or ‘instance’ (TLF). As such it has been calqued (presumably from French) into other Romance languages.

plural

momentaneo, (momentaccio), (momentino) Zingarelli

per art e per ençegno entro fos envïaa, / en un solo momento serìa tuta glaçaa (OVI: Uguccione da Lodi, Libro, 13C)

» 'short space of time', 'point in time'

» 'importance'

Il che di quanto momento fosse alla rovina dell'Occidente, assai chiaro ce lo dimostrano i tanti diluvj delle barbare nazioni, che ec. (Crusca: Pierfrancesco Giambullari, Storia d'Europa, 1.1., 1566)

Momento psicologico: see French Collocational history, moment psychologique.