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« Fatras » et « fatrasie » : un imbroglio étymologique et typologique
Abstract : A well established philological tradition links the word « fatras » to the Latin farcire : « to stuff » through more or less tortuous ways (*fartacium, farsura- *farsurare or *farsuraceum) ; from fatras would be derived « fatrasie » (= fa(s)tras + -ie). The problem is that the second term is more anciently attested than the first one. In 1980, exploiting the varia lectio of a Miracle written by Gautier de Coinci, a German scholar attempted to prove that fa(s)trasie is nothing but a variant for fantasie (< phantasia < phantasma : « kind of nightmare »). All things considered, it doesn’t seem that fa(s)trasie and fantasie are semantically related : the variant is not a phonetical one, but a lexical one ! As a corollary, there is no reason to consider fa(s)tras as a shortened derivative form of fa(s)trasie : the meaning of « fatrasie » (MS. Arsenal 3114) is : « collection of fatras (= 11 aabaabbabab) ». In mediaeval gender, « stuffing » and poiein were deeply bound up together : the task for the poet was to « stuff » with nonsense a very rigid strophic « skeleton ».
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