"farce" meaning in French

See farce in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /faʁs/ Audio: Fr-farce.ogg , LL-Q150 (fra)-Bananax47-farce.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-farce.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-farce.wav Forms: farces [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Old French farse, from Medieval Latin farsa, from the feminine perfect passive participle from Latin farciō (“to stuff”). Doublet of far. The theatre sense alludes to the pleasant and varied character of certain stuffed food items. Etymology templates: {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|farse|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French farse, {{inh+|fr|fro|farse}} Inherited from Old French farse, {{der|fr|ML.|farsa}} Medieval Latin farsa, {{der|fr|la|farciō||to stuff}} Latin farciō (“to stuff”), {{doublet|fr|far}} Doublet of far Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} farce f (plural farces)
  1. (cooking) stuffing Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-farce-fr-noun-ZosrXK02 Categories (other): Cooking, French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 75 21 4 Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
  2. (theater) farce Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-farce-fr-noun-W663hGSn Categories (other): Theater Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, theater
  3. prank, joke Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-farce-fr-noun-xLFJdnrh
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dindon de la farce, farce ou friandise, farceur, histoire farce Related terms: farcir

Inflected forms

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  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Dictionnaire de la langue française",
    "Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch",
    "Émile Littré"
  ],
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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