# à jour
## French
### Etymology

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### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a ʒuʁ/
* Audio (Paris):(file)
* Homophone: ajour

### Adjective

à jour (invariable)
* up-to-date, current

#### Related terms

* mettre à jour
* tenir à jour

#### Descendants

* → Danish: ajour
* → Norwegian Bokmål: à jour, a jour
* → Swedish: ajour

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* a jour

### Etymology

From French à jour (“up-to-date”), first part from Middle French [Term?], from Old French a (“to”), from Latin ad (“to”), from Proto-Italic *ad (“to”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“to”). Last part from French jour (“day”), from Old French jorn, jor (“day”), from Latin diurnum [tempus], from diurnus (“daily”), from earlier *diusnus, from both diūs, from Old Latin, from Proto-Italic *djous (“day”) from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“sky”), from earlier *dyéws, from *dyew- (“to be bright”) and *s (creates nouns) + and from -nus (forms adjectives), from Proto-Italic *-nos, from Proto-Indo-European *-nós (forms verbal adjectives).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈʃʉːr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ʉːr
* Hyphenation: à‧jour
* Homophone: a jour

### Adverb

à jour
* up to date (especially in accounting)
** 1920, Jonas Lie, Samlede Digterverker III, page 357:der laa arbeide der i denne tid mindst for to, før han kom à jourthere was work there at this time at least for two, before he came up to date
** 2013, Tor Åge Bringsværd, Ikke fordi den har et svar, men fordi den har en sang, page X:jeg [måtte] gjøre et alvorlig forsøk på å komme litt mer ajour med listen minI [had to] make a serious effort to get a little more up to date with my list
** 2013, Karin Fossum, Carmen Zita og døden:du har selvfølgelig krav på å være ajour med det vi har av funnyou are of course entitled to be up to date with what we have of discoveries
** 2013 August 1, Aftenposten, page 9:skolebøkene bagatelliserer [språkforskeren Ivar] Aasen. De skriver om den fattige stakkaren og er ikke faglig à jourthe textbooks downplay [linguist Ivar] Aasen. They write about the poor poor man and are not professionally up to date
** 1987, Terje Stigen, Katedralen:nå var det ikke om å gjøre å holde seg ajour med kalenderen, den var ikke lenger en nødsrasjon, en siste reservenow it was not about keeping up with the calendar, it was no longer an emergency ration, a last resort
** 2001 July 15, Bergens Tidende, page 30:det er her [hos frisøren] og hos tannlegen man holder seg ajour med hva Se og Hør velger å skrive omit is here [at the hairdresser] and at the dentist that you stay up to date with what Se og Hør chooses to write about
    bringe/føre/holde à jour ― bringing/keeping/staying up to date
    komme/bli à jour ― become up to date (with all of today's work, finish all of today's tasks)
    være à jour ― be up to date (in accounting), be oriented about something, have the most knowledge about a subject
       være à jour med betalingen
          being up to date with payments
    holde (seg/noen) à jour ― keep (themselves or someone) up to date, keep (themselves or someone) informed of something
* (geology) transparent
    en edelsten som er à jour
       a gemstone which is transparent

#### Derived terms

* ajourføre
* ajourinnfattet
* ajournement
* ajournere

### References

* “à jour” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “à jour” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
* “à jour” in Store norske leksikon

## Swedish
### Adjective

à jour
* Alternative spelling of ajour