"charité" meaning in French

See charité in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ʃa.ʁi.te/ Audio: Fr-charité.ogg , LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-charité.wav [France, Vosges], LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-charité.wav [France, Lyon] Forms: charités [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Old French charité, carité, a borrowing from Latin cāritātem (“love, regard”), which see for more. Doublet of cherté. Etymology templates: {{etymon|fr|:inh|fro:charité}} [Appendix:Glossary#learned_borrowing|Learned borrowing]] from", "terms" : [ { "alt" : "cāritātem", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "gloss" : "dear, expensive", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "dear", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "desire", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*keh₂-", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "id" : "adjectival", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-rós", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*kāros", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "cārus", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-tās", "status" : "ambiguous", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "caritas", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "lbor" } ], "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "charité", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "fro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "French", "term" : "charité", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "fr" }" data-lang="fr" data-title="charité">, {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|charité|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French charité, {{inh+|fr|fro|charité}} Inherited from Old French charité, {{der|fr|la|caritas|cāritātem|t=love, regard}} Latin cāritātem (“love, regard”), {{doublet|fr|cherté}} Doublet of cherté, {{etymon|fr|:inh|fro:charité}} Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} charité f (plural charités)
  1. charity Tags: feminine Derived forms: c'est l'hôpital qui se fout de la charité, c'est l'hôpital qui se moque de la charité, charité bien ordonnée commence par soi-même
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Inflected forms

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