pied

Haitian Creole: pye

Inherited from Middle French pied, from Old French pié, from Latin pedem. The -d was added to the spelling in Middle French after the Latin form.
Cognate with Italian piede, Catalan peu, Spanish pie, Portuguese pé, and further with English foot, Lithuanian pėda, Persian پا (pâ) etc.


enjambement

/ɑ̃.ʒɑ̃b.mɑ̃/

From enjamber (“to stride; to straddle”) + -ment.


cheville

Inherited from Old French cheville, from Vulgar Latin *cavicla, dissimilated and syncopated form of Classical Latin clāvicula, diminutive of clāvis (“key”). Doublet of clavicule, a borrowing.


strophe

Borrowed from Latin stropha, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek στροφή (strophḗ).


rondeau

From Old French rondel, diminutive of ront.


numéraire

Learned borrowing from Late Latin numerārius, from numerus (whence French nombre).


épopée

→ Greek: εποποιία (epopoiía) (learned)

→ Turkish: epope


envoi

→ English: envoi, envoy

From earlier envei, envoy; from the verb envoyer (“to send”).


scander

scander (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
scandant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
scandé (participle past)
scande (first-person indicative present singular)
scandes (indicative present second-person singular)
scande (indicative present singular third-person)
scandons (first-person indicative plural present)
scandez (indicative plural present second-person)
scandent (indicative plural present third-person)
scandais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
scandais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
scandait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
scandions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
scandiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
scandaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
scandai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
scandas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
scanda (historic indicative past singular third-person)
scandâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
scandâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
scandèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
scanderai (first-person future indicative singular)
scanderas (future indicative second-person singular)
scandera (future indicative singular third-person)
scanderons (first-person future indicative plural)
scanderez (future indicative plural second-person)
scanderont (future indicative plural third-person)
scanderais (conditional first-person singular)
scanderais (conditional second-person singular)
scanderait (conditional singular third-person)
scanderions (conditional first-person plural)
scanderiez (conditional plural second-person)
scanderaient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
scande (first-person present singular subjunctive)
scandes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
scande (present singular subjunctive third-person)
scandions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
scandiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
scandent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
scandasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
scandasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
scandât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
scandassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
scandassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
scandassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
scande (imperative second-person singular)
scandons (first-person imperative plural)
scandez (imperative plural second-person)


trouvère

fr-noun

trouvère m (plural trouvères, feminine trouveresse or trouvèresse)

trouvères (plural)
trouveresse (feminine)
trouvèresse (feminine)

Inherited from Middle French trouvere, from Old French trovere (nominative singular case of troveor, from trover (“to find”) + -eor (agent noun suffix)), or possibly corresponding to a Gallo-Vulgar Latin *tropātor, from the verb *tropō, tropāre, from Latin tropus. Cognate with Old Occitan, Occitan, and Catalan trobador (the form trouvère is directly cognate with the Occitan form trobaire, itself from the nominative singular case of the corresponding Old Occitan form), from the verb trobar (“to find”).

cog

Ainsi, la poésie lyrique des troubadours et des trouvères, et surtout la portion de cette poésie qui roule sur les sentimens de galanterie chevaleresque, n’a pas une source latine; cette poésie est née avec la galanterie chevaleresque elle-même, […].

1839, Jean-Jacques Ampère, La Littérature française au moyen-âge, volume 19, Revue des Deux Mondes:

Thus, the lyric poetry of the troubadours and trouvères, and especially that part of this poetry which revolves around the sentiments of chivalric gallantry, does not have a Latin source; this poetry was born with chivalric gallantry itself, […] .

(poetry) a trouvère, medieval lyric poet using the Northern langue d'oïl (precursor lects of modern French), as opposed to their older, southern example, the original troubadours, who used langue d'oc (Occitan)


lyrique

fr-noun

lyrique m or f by sense (plural lyriques)


haïku

Borrowed from Japanese 俳(はい)句(く) (haiku).


césure

césure trihémimère, césure penthémimère

(poetry) caesura (a pause or interruption)


églogue

From Latin ecloga, from Ancient Greek ἐκλογή (eklogḗ, “selection”).


enjamber

enjamber (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
enjambant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
enjambé (participle past)
enjambe (first-person indicative present singular)
enjambes (indicative present second-person singular)
enjambe (indicative present singular third-person)
enjambons (first-person indicative plural present)
enjambez (indicative plural present second-person)
enjambent (indicative plural present third-person)
enjambais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
enjambais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
enjambait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
enjambions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
enjambiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
enjambaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
enjambai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
enjambas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
enjamba (historic indicative past singular third-person)
enjambâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
enjambâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
enjambèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
enjamberai (first-person future indicative singular)
enjamberas (future indicative second-person singular)
enjambera (future indicative singular third-person)
enjamberons (first-person future indicative plural)
enjamberez (future indicative plural second-person)
enjamberont (future indicative plural third-person)
enjamberais (conditional first-person singular)
enjamberais (conditional second-person singular)
enjamberait (conditional singular third-person)
enjamberions (conditional first-person plural)
enjamberiez (conditional plural second-person)
enjamberaient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
enjambe (first-person present singular subjunctive)
enjambes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
enjambe (present singular subjunctive third-person)
enjambions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
enjambiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
enjambent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
enjambasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
enjambasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
enjambât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
enjambassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
enjambassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
enjambassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
enjambe (imperative second-person singular)
enjambons (first-person imperative plural)
enjambez (imperative plural second-person)


alexandrin

(poetry) alexandrine (line of poetic meter having twelve syllables)


allosexuel

fr-adj

allosexuel (feminine allosexuelle, masculine plural allosexuels, feminine plural allosexuelles)

allosexuelle (feminine)
allosexuels (masculine plural)
allosexuelles (feminine plural)

(poetry) rhymed using words with different grammatical genders


dactylique

Romanian: dactilic

Borrowed from Latin dactylicus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek δακτυλικός (daktulikós). By surface analysis, dactyle + -ique.

Un hexamètre dactylique.


asynartète

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσυνάρτητος (asunártētos).


Philodème

Borrowed from Latin Philodēmus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Φιλόδημος (Philódēmos).


Odyssée

Borrowed from Latin Odyssea, from Ancient Greek Ὀδύσσεια (Odússeia).

L’Iliade et l’Odyssée sont les deux poèmes fondateurs de la civilisation européenne.

The Iliad and the Odyssey are the two founding poems of European civilisation.

the Odyssey (epic poem by Homer recounting the exploits of Odysseus after the Trojan War)


sirventès

sirventès (plural)
sirvente (alternative)


épithalame

Learned borrowing from Latin epithalamium, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐπιθαλάμιον (epithalámion, “bridal song”).

der

epithalamium (poem written specifically for the bride on the way to her marital chamber)


chanson de geste

fr-noun

chanson de geste f (plural chansons de geste)

→ English: chanson de geste

→ Italian: canzone di gesta (calque)

→ Portuguese: canção de gesta (calque)

→ Spanish: cantar de gesta (calque)

chanson de geste
chanson de geste#English


thrénodie

From Ancient Greek θρηνῳδία (thrēnōidía, “lamentation”). Compare English threnody.