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Some of them are real gems: tableur (`tabular operator') for `spreadsheet' is concise, precise, and original; baladeur (`stroller') for `walkman,' although basically a loan translation, adds a fresh nuance to the imagery; best of all perhaps is ordinateur for `computer,' the French term (current since the 1960s, adopted by the Dictionnaire in 1983) meaning something like `methodically arranging agent.
Ernout and Meillet, in their delightful Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine , urbanely review several rather far-fetched possibilities including LMN—well, it is a series—and elephas (elephant), but conclude with a shrug of their shoulders and a suggestion that the word might have come from Etruscan.
The cardinal also created the Académie Française in 1635 to ensure the purity and clarity of the French language through its Dictionnaire and its Grammaire.
' The Dictionnaire offers many such ingenious coinages but they generally lack the pithiness and sprightliness that enliven such a great deal of scientific and technological terminology in English.
For the vulgar meanings of a couple of the words in the last contrepèteries, something like Le Petit Robert: Dictionnaire de la Langue Francaise will be needed.