"lady" meaning in French

See lady in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /lɛ.di/, /le.di/ Forms: ladies [plural], ladys [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from English lady, from Middle English lady, from Old English hlǣfdīġe. Etymology templates: {{root|fr|ine-pro|*dʰeyǵʰ-}}, {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|fr|en|lady|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} English lady, {{bor+|fr|en|lady}} Borrowed from English lady, {{der|fr|enm|lady}} Middle English lady, {{der|fr|ang|hlǣfdīġe}} Old English hlǣfdīġe Head templates: {{fr-noun|f|ladies|+}} lady f (plural ladies or ladys)
  1. lady (wife of a British lord; important woman, usually British) Tags: feminine Synonyms: dame, madame
    Sense id: en-lady-fr-noun-x1v~D07u Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for lady meaning in French (1.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*dʰeyǵʰ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "loanword",
        "2": "Borrowed"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "lady",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "English lady",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "lady"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from English lady",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "lady"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English lady",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "hlǣfdīġe"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English hlǣfdīġe",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from English lady, from Middle English lady, from Old English hlǣfdīġe.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ladies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ladys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "ladies",
        "3": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "lady f (plural ladies or ladys)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "lady (wife of a British lord; important woman, usually British)"
      ],
      "id": "en-lady-fr-noun-x1v~D07u",
      "links": [
        [
          "lady",
          "lady#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dame"
        },
        {
          "word": "madame"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lɛ.di/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/le.di/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lady"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*dʰeyǵʰ-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "loanword",
        "2": "Borrowed"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "lady",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "English lady",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "lady"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from English lady",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "lady"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English lady",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "hlǣfdīġe"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English hlǣfdīġe",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from English lady, from Middle English lady, from Old English hlǣfdīġe.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ladies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ladys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f",
        "2": "ladies",
        "3": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "lady f (plural ladies or ladys)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French 2-syllable words",
        "French countable nouns",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French feminine nouns",
        "French lemmas",
        "French nouns",
        "French terms borrowed from English",
        "French terms derived from English",
        "French terms derived from Middle English",
        "French terms derived from Old English",
        "French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
        "French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰeyǵʰ-",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "lady (wife of a British lord; important woman, usually British)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lady",
          "lady#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dame"
        },
        {
          "word": "madame"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lɛ.di/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/le.di/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lady"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.