"seoir" meaning in French

See seoir in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /swaʁ/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-seoir.wav
Rhymes: -waʁ Etymology: Inherited from Middle French seoir, from Old French seoir, from earlier sedeir, from Latin sedēre, from Proto-Italic *sedēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-. 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  1. (literary) to be suitable for; to be proper for Tags: defective, literary
    Sense id: en-seoir-fr-verb-yP~H-bJg
  2. (law) to be situated Tags: defective Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-seoir-fr-verb--Y3Opdw8 Topics: law
  3. (dated or literary) sit down (see also s’asseoir) Tags: dated, defective, literary
    Sense id: en-seoir-fr-verb-b1OTB4tk Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, French links with redundant wikilinks, Old French entries with incorrect language header, Old French verbs ending in -oir, Old French verbs with stem alternations, Old French verbs with strong-sd preterite, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 4 8 88 Disambiguation of French links with redundant wikilinks: 5 11 84 Disambiguation of Old French entries with incorrect language header: 4 6 61 5 9 4 10 Disambiguation of Old French verbs ending in -oir: 6 8 44 7 13 6 15 Disambiguation of Old French verbs with stem alternations: 7 7 38 7 15 7 18 Disambiguation of Old French verbs with strong-sd preterite: 8 12 26 11 17 8 19 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 5 5 54 5 12 5 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 4 68 4 8 4 9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: soir (english: post-1990 spelling) Related terms: asseoir

Inflected forms

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          "english": "To waver is fitting for those of firmest courage",
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        "(literary) to be suitable for; to be proper for"
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      "tags": [
        "defective",
        "literary"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "fr:Law"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be situated"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law#English"
        ],
        [
          "situated",
          "situated"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(law) to be situated"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "defective"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "French dated terms",
        "French literary terms",
        "French terms with quotations",
        "Requests for translations of French quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1785, Jean Baptiste Rousseau, Annales poétique depuis l’origine de la poésie françoise, Tome 33, page 225:",
          "text": "Au carabet, lorſque je ſis à table,\nJe ne bois qu’à ma ſoif, & que le cœur m’en dit:\nMais quand Margot me tient au lit,\nTout-ci, tout-ca,\nPar-ci, par-là !",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1848, Honoré de Balzac, L’Envers de l’Histoire contemporaine, premier épisode:",
          "text": "Les trois personnages se levèrent, la maîtresse de la maison se leva ; puis quand le prêtre eut avancé pour Godefroid un fauteuil, quand le futur locataire se fut assis sur un geste de Mme de La Chanterie, accompagné de ce vieux mot : « Seyez-vous, monsieur ! » le Parisien se crut à une énorme distance de Paris, en Basse-Bretagne, ou au fond du Canada.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sit down (see also s’asseoir)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sit down",
          "sit down"
        ],
        [
          "s’asseoir",
          "asseoir#French:_reflexive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated or literary) sit down (see also s’asseoir)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "defective",
        "literary"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/swaʁ/"
    },
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    },
    {
      "homophone": "soir"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-waʁ"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "english": "post-1990 spelling",
      "word": "soir"
    }
  ],
  "word": "seoir"
}

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