or

Haitian Creole: lò

From Middle French or, from Old French or, from Latin aurum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂é-h₂us-o- (“glow”), from *h₂ews- (“to dawn, become light, become red”).

la parole est d'argent, le silence est d'or


rose

Inherited from Middle French rose, from Old French rose, borrowed from Latin rosa (the expected form if it was inherited would be *reuse).


torque

From Old French torke, northern variant of torche, from Vulgar Latin *torca, ultimately from the same source as etymology 1.


couleur

→ Danish: kulør

→ Dutch: kleur

Afrikaans: kleur

→ English: couleur

→ German: Couleur

Haitian Creole: koulè

Louisiana Creole: koulær, koulè, koulèr

→ Low German: Klöör

→ German Low German: Klür

Norwegian:

→ Norwegian Bokmål: kulør

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: kulør

→ Swedish: kulör

→ West Frisian: kleur

Inherited from Middle French couleur, from Old French color, from Latin colōrem m.

des goûts et des couleurs, on ne discute pas


croissant

→ English: croissant

→ German: Croissant

→ Italian: croissant

→ Korean: 크라상 (keurasang)

→ Malay: roti bulan sabit (calque)

→ Turkish: kruvasan

→ Spanish: cruasán

→ Asturian: curasán

→ Catalan: croissant

→ Portuguese: croassã

Present participle of the verb croître (“to increase, to grow”). From Old French croisant, from earlier creissant, from Latin crēscentem, present active participle of crēscō (“to augment”).


lion

Haitian Creole: lyon

Mauritian Creole: lyon

Seychellois Creole: lyon

Inherited from Old French lion, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin leōnem, from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn).


canton

→ German: Kanton

Inherited from Middle French canton, from Old French canton (from the 1240s), from Old Occitan canton (“corner; canton”) (recorded before 1218), adopted in Occitan from North Italian (Gallo-Italic, early Lombard) cantone (“edge, corner; canton”), ultimately representing Latin cant- (“rim (of a wheel)”) with the addition of the -ō (accusative -ōnem) suffix forming augmentatives in Romance.


clef

clefs (plural)
clé (alternative common)
cleph (alternative humorous)

Inherited from Middle French clef, from Old French clef, from Latin clāvis, from Proto-Italic *klāwis, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kleh₂w-. According to Bescherelle.

(heraldry) key; the device as shown on a coat of arms


métal

Borrowed from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”), of unknown origin.


pile

→ English: pile

→ Haitian Creole: anpil

→ Khmer: ពិល (pɨl)

→ Malagasy: pila

→ Rade: pil

→ Turkish: pil (“battery”)

→ Vietnamese: pin

Inherited from Old French, from Latin pīla (through Italian pila for the “battery” sense). The “tail of a coin” sense is probably derived from previous senses, but it's not known for sure.


pal

From Old French pal (12th c.), variant of pel, from Latin pālus (“stake, pole”). Doublet of pieu. The Trésor informatisé considers Old French pal a learned borrowing, but it might be a dialectal variant instead.


épée

Inherited from Middle French espee, from Old French espee, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē). Doublet of spathe, a borrowing from Latin, and espade, a borrowing from Occitan.

(heraldry) sword; the weapon as shown on a coat of arms


charge

→ Brazilian Portuguese: charge

→ Romanian: șarjă

→ Turkish: şarj, şarz (misspelling)

Inherited from Middle French charge, from Old French charge, carge, equivalent to a deverbal from charger.


vêtement

Inherited from Old French vestement, from Latin vestīmentum.

SCHWERIN De gueules, au vêtement d'argent. […]

1892, Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi, Le blason héraldique: manuel nouveau de l'art héraldique de la science du blason et de la polychromie féodale d'après les règles du Moyen Age, page 45:

(heraldry) a set of four triangles covering the corners of the shield, leaving a lozenge of the field (the edges of which reach the edges of the shield) in the middle (compare vêtu)


rampant

fr-adj

rampant (feminine rampante, masculine plural rampants, feminine plural rampantes)

rampante (feminine)
rampants (masculine plural)
rampantes (feminine plural)


barre

→ English: barre

→ Romanian: bară

→ Vietnamese: ba-rê

From Middle French barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Frankish *bara (“bar, beam, barrier, fence”), from Proto-Germanic *barō (“beam, bar, barrier”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to strike, pierce”).
If so, then cognate with Old High German para, bara (“bar, beam, one's cherished land”), Middle Dutch bāre, baer (“bar, barrier, rail”), Old Frisian ber (“attack, assault”), Swedish bärling (“a spoke”), Norwegian berling (“a small bar in a vehicle, rod”), Latin forus (“gangway, plank”), Russian забо́р (zabór, “fencing, paling, fence”), Ancient Greek φάρος (pháros, “piece of land, furrow, marker, beacon, lighthouse”).
An alternative etymology derives Old French barre and Vulgar Latin *barra from a Celtic source related to Breton barri (“branch, twig”).
Doublet of bar.


champ

→ English: champ

Inherited from Middle French champ, from Old French champ m, inherited from Latin campus m (“field”). Doublet of camp m and campus m.

(heraldry) the background of a shield's design

field in its various senses, including:
the background of a shield's design


chef

Inherited from Middle French chief, from Old French chief, from Vulgar Latin capus, from Latin caput (“head”), from Proto-Italic *kaput, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kauput-, *kaput-. Doublet of cap.

d'or au chef de gueules

(heraldry) chief; top third of a coat of arms


sanguine

(heraldry) a tincture, seldom used, of a blood-red colour (not to be confused with murrey, which is mûre in French)


argent

Haitian Creole: ajan

Louisiana Creole: larjên

Inherited from Middle French argent m, from Old French argent m, from Latin argentum n (according to the TLFi etymological dictionary, a borrowing), itself from Proto-Italic *argentom n, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm n, from *h₂erǵ- (“white”).

né avec une cuillère d'argent dans la bouche

né avec une cuillère en argent dans la bouche


étoile

Haitian Creole: zetwal

Mauritian Creole: zetwal

Seychellois Creole: zetwal

→ English: étoile, etoile

→ Italian: étoile

From Middle French estoile, from Old French estoile, esteile, from Late Latin stēla, from Latin stēlla. Doublet of Estelle.


fondant

fr-adj

fondant (feminine fondante, masculine plural fondants, feminine plural fondantes)

fondante (feminine)
fondants (masculine plural)
fondantes (feminine plural)

(heraldry) stooping, as for prey; describes an eagle, falcon, etc. flying downward


parler

parler (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
parlant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
parlé (participle past)
parle (first-person indicative present singular)
paʁl (first-person indicative present singular)
parles (indicative present second-person singular)
parle (indicative present singular third-person)
parlons (first-person indicative plural present)
parlez (indicative plural present second-person)
parlent (indicative plural present third-person)
parlais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
parlais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
parlait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
parlions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
parliez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
parlaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
parlai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
parlas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
parla (historic indicative past singular third-person)
parlâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
parlâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
parlèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
parlerai (first-person future indicative singular)
parleras (future indicative second-person singular)
parlera (future indicative singular third-person)
parlerons (first-person future indicative plural)
parlerez (future indicative plural second-person)
parleront (future indicative plural third-person)
parlerais (conditional first-person singular)
parlerais (conditional second-person singular)
parlerait (conditional singular third-person)
parlerions (conditional first-person plural)
parleriez (conditional plural second-person)
parleraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
parle (first-person present singular subjunctive)
paʁl (first-person present singular subjunctive)
parles (present second-person singular subjunctive)
parle (present singular subjunctive third-person)
parlions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
parliez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
parlent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
parlasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
parlasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
parlât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
parlassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
parlassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
parlassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
parle (imperative second-person singular)
parlons (first-person imperative plural)
parlez (imperative plural second-person)

Haitian Creole: pale

Inherited from Middle French parler, from Old French parler, from Early Medieval Latin parabolāre (“to express”), from Latin parabola (“parable, comparison”), from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ).

inh

parler de corde dans la maison d'un pendu

parler français comme une vache espagnole

quand on parle du loup, on en voit la queue

armes parlantes

(heraldry) to cant; (of a coat of arms) to make a pun of its bearer's name


couronne

Inherited from Old French corone, inherited from Latin corōna, from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē).


croix

Haitian Creole: kwa

Inherited from Middle French croix, from Old French croix, crois, from the Latin crucem. Doublet of crux, croiseur, and cruiser.

croix de bois, croix de fer, si je mens, je vais en enfer

(heraldry) a representation of a cross; the cross as a heraldic symbol


bande

→ Portuguese: banda

→ Turkish: bant

→ Persian: باند (bând)

From Old French bande, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bindā (“join, link”), cognate with English bind.


abaissé

fr-adj

abaissé (feminine abaissée, masculine plural abaissés, feminine plural abaissées)

abaissée (feminine)
abaissés (masculine plural)
abaissées (feminine plural)


sable

From Old French martre sable (“sable marten”), an animal. From Middle Low German sabel (compare Middle Dutch sabel, Middle High German zobel); ultimately from a Balto-Slavic word (compare Russian со́боль (sóbolʹ), Polish soból, Czech sobol). Compare also Persian سمور (samur). Doublet of zibeline.

der

(heraldry) the heraldic colour sable; black


dauphin

Haitian Creole: dofen

Inherited from Old French dalphin, from Latin delphinus.

(heraldry) dolphin; the animal used as a charge


tenant

Present participle of tenir. From Old French tenant; corresponding to Latin tenentem.


fusée

→ Polish: fuzja

→ Turkish: füze

From Old French *fus (whence fuseau) + -ée.


manteau

→ English: manteau, mantua

→ Japanese: マント (manto)

→ Korean: 망토 (mangto)

→ Ottoman Turkish: مانتو (manto)

> Turkish: manto (inherited)

→ Persian: مانتو (mânto)

→ Romanian: manta, mantou

→ Russian: манто (manto)

Inherited from Latin mantellum, diminutive of mantum. Compare Italian mantello.


partition

→ Turkish: partisyon

Inherited from Old French particion, from Latin partītiōnem. By surface analysis, partir + -tion.

(heraldry) a (geometrical) division using two colors


chevron

→ English: chevron

→ Russian: шевро́н (ševrón)

Inherited from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *capriōnem, from *capreus, cf. also caprone. Ultimately from Latin caper (“goat”).


foi

Inherited from Middle French foy, from Old French foi, fei, feid, from Latin fidem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to command, to persuade, to trust”).


champagne

→ Catalan: xampany

→ Dutch: champagne

→ English: champagne

→ Burmese: ရှမ်ပိန် (hrampin)

→ Korean: 샴페인 (syampein)

→ German: Champagner

→ Greek: σαμπάνια (sampánia)

→ Italian: champagne

desc

→ Norwegian Bokmål: champagne, sjampanje

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: champagne, sjampanje

→ Polish: szampan

→ Portuguese: champanhe, champanha, champagne, champãe (eye dialect)

→ Spanish: champaña, champán

→ Swedish: champagne

From the region Champagne, from Late Latin campānia (in this case, Campania Remensis specifically), from campāneus, from Latin campus.

(countable, heraldry) base; bottom third of a coat of arms


devise

→ Russian: деви́з (devíz)

→ Turkish: döviz

From Old French devise (“division, separation; heraldic band, emblem”), from deviser. The financial sense is a semantic loan from German Devise.

inh

Le colonialisme français n'a pas varié sa devise: «Diviser pour régner.» C'est ainsi que l'empire d'Annam ce pays habité par un peuple descendant de la même race, ayant les mêmes moeurs, la même histoire, les mêmes traditions et parlant la même langue – fut divisé en cinq parties.

1925, Nguyễn Ái Quốc, “XII - Le réveil des esclaves”, in Le procès de la colonisation française; English translation from “XII - Awakening of Slaves”, in French Colonization on Trial (Selected works of Hồ Chí Minh; 1), 1st edition, Paris: Foreign Languages Press, 2021, page 337:

French colonialism hasn’t altered its motto: “Divide and rule.” That is why the empire of Annam — that country inhabited by a people descended from the same race, having the same customs, the same history, the same traditions and speaking the same language — was divided into five parts.


grenade

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Substantive use of Old French grenate in pomme grenate (“pomegranate”), from dialectal northern Italian pom granat, from Medieval Latin pomum granatum (“seeded fruit”), from Latin grānātum. The -d- developed under influence from Spanish granada.

der

(heraldry) pomegranate (Grenade de guerre is used in French to describe a grenade in English heraldry)


parti

fr-adj

parti (feminine partie, masculine plural partis, feminine plural parties)

partie (feminine)
partis (masculine plural)
parties (feminine plural)

(heraldry) divided into two equal parts vertically, per pale; said of an escutcheon


goutte

Inherited from Middle French goutte, from Old French gote, gute, goute, from Latin gutta. The second t was added back in Middle French to reflect the original Latin spelling.


pièce

→ Danish: pjece

→ Northern Kurdish: piyes

→ Norwegian:

Norwegian Bokmål: piece

→ Ottoman Turkish: پیهس (piyes)

Turkish: piyes (play - in a theatre)

→ Romanian: piesă

desctree

→ Russian: пье́са (pʹjésa)
→ Armenian: պիես (pies)
→ Georgian: პიესა (ṗiesa)
→ Kazakh: пьеса (pesa)

→ Swedish: pjäs

desc

п'єса<alt:п’є́са>

→ Ukrainian: п’є́са (pʺjésa)

→ Yiddish: פּיעסע (pyese)

Inherited from Middle French piece, from Old French piece, from Late Latin pettia, from Gaulish *pettya, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis.


ouvert

fr-adj

ouvert (feminine ouverte, masculine plural ouverts, feminine plural ouvertes)

ouverte (feminine)
ouverts (masculine plural)
ouvertes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French ouvert, from Old French overt, from Vulgar Latin *opertus, from Latin apertus. Doublet of apert.

(heraldry) of a building: having a door of a specified colour


briquet

→ English: briquet

→ Spanish: briquet

→ Romanian: brichetă

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Specialised sense of Middle French briquet (“piece, morsel”), from brique.


azur

Inherited from Old French azur, borrowed from Medieval Latin azurium, from Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”).


coupé

fr-adj

coupé (feminine coupée, masculine plural coupés, feminine plural coupées)

coupée (feminine)
coupés (masculine plural)
coupées (feminine plural)

(heraldry) divided into two equal parts horizontally, per fess; said of an escutcheon


allumé

allumé (feminine allumée, masculine plural allumés, feminine plural allumées)

allumée (feminine)
allumés (masculine plural)
allumées (feminine plural)

3. Dauphiné. — D'azur au dauphin d'or, crêté, barbé et allumé de gueules. (Il faudrait d'or au dauphin d'azur.) […] 4. Dauphiné-Faucigny. — D'or au dauphin d'azur, crêté, barbé et allumé de gueules, portant suspendu à son col un petit écu de Faucigny, […]

1893, Réunion des sociétés savantes des départements à la Sorbonne: 1877 - 1880, page 764:

(heraldry) with its eyes bright (and a specified color)


aigle

Inherited from Middle French aigle, from Old French aigle, itself either borrowed from Old Occitan aigla or taken from Latin aquila, though not as a popular term. Cf. the Old French and regional form aille, which may be popularly inherited.
* Cognate with Italian aquila, Portuguese águia, Spanish águila, Romanian aceră. Doublet of eagle.

(heraldry) a representation an eagle; the eagle as a heraldic symbol


clé

clés (plural)
clef (alternative uncommon)
cleph (alternative humorous)

→ Vietnamese: cờ-lê

Inherited from Middle French clef, from Old French clef, from Latin clāvis, from Proto-Italic *klāwis, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kleh₂w-. According to Bescherelle, the spelling clé had replaced clef by 1845.

(heraldry) key; the device as shown on a coat of arms


trèfle

→ German: Treff n

→ Macedonian: треф m (tref)

→ Russian: тре́фа f (tréfa)

→ Russian: тре́фы f (tréfy)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: тре̏ф m

Latin script: trȅf m

→ Polish: trefl

→ Vietnamese: nhép, tép

Inherited from Old French tresfle, from Vulgar Latin *trifolum, from Latin trifolium, calque of Ancient Greek τρίφυλλον (tríphullon). Or taken from the Greek itself. Compare Old French trefeuil.


meuble

Haitian Creole: mèb

→ Belarusian: мэ́бля (méblja)

→ Bulgarian: мебел (mebel)

→ Crimean Tatar: mebel

→ Danish: møbel
→ Icelandic: mubla

desctree

→ Dutch: meubel
Afrikaans: meubel
→ Caribbean Javanese: mébel
→ Indonesian: mebel
→ Sranan Tongo: meibri

→ Esperanto: meblo

→ German: Möbel
→ Estonian: mööbel
→ Kashubian: mébel
→ Latvian: mēbele
→ Polish: mebel
→ Russian: ме́бель (mébelʹ)
→ Azerbaijani: mebel
→ Ingrian: meebeli
→ Kyrgyz: мебель (mebel)
→ Ossetian: мебель (mebelʹ)
→ Turkmen: mebel
→ Uzbek: mebel

→ Ido: moblo

→ Macedonian: мебел (mebel)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: møbel

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: møbel

→ Persian: مبل (mobl)

→ Swedish: möbel

→ Turkish: möble

→ Ukrainian: ме́блі (mébli)

→ Yiddish: מעבל (mebl)

Inherited from Latin mōbilis (“that which can be moved”), used in juridical Latin to refer to movable possessions, the antonym being immōbilis (> French immeuble (“building”)), used to refer to immovable possessions. Doublet of mobile.


armorial

fr-adj

armorial (feminine armoriale, masculine plural armoriaux, feminine plural armoriales)

armoriale (feminine)
armoriaux (masculine plural)
armoriales (feminine plural)


vair

Inherited from Old French vair, veir, from the accusative singular masculine form of Latin varius.


effrayé

(heraldry) of a quadruped, especially a horse: represented standing on its hind legs, and giving the impression of beating the air with its front legs


bordé

bordé (feminine bordée, masculine plural bordés, feminine plural bordées)

bordée (feminine)
bordés (masculine plural)
bordées (feminine plural)


fiché

fiché (feminine fichée, masculine plural fichés, feminine plural fichées)

fichée (feminine)
fichés (masculine plural)
fichées (feminine plural)


orle

Inherited from Old French orle, from Vulgar Latin *ōrula, a diminutive of Latin ōra (“edge”), probably from ōs, ōris (“mouth”). Compare Portuguese and Spanish orla.


passant

passant (feminine passante, masculine plural passants, feminine plural passantes)

passante (feminine)
passants (masculine plural)
passantes (feminine plural)


fanon

Inherited from Middle French fanon, fannon, from Old French fanon, fanum, from Early Medieval Latin fanō (attested in the Reichenau Glossary), borrowed from Frankish *fano (“cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *fanô. Cognate with English fane and vane.


bouse

From Gaulish or Ancient Ligurian. Cognate with Piedmontese busa, Ligurian bêusa, bûsa, bûsia and Occitan bosa, bosia.


bordure

Haitian Creole: bòdi

desctree

→ Russian: бордюр (bordjur)
→ Georgian: ბორდიური (bordiuri)

Inherited from Old French bordure, bordeure, from border (“to border”), from bort, bord (“a border”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bord.


frette

From fretter, or Old French freit, from Latin frīgidus (“cold”).


comble

Inherited from Old French cumble, inherited through a Vulgar Latin form *cumlu(s) from Latin cumulus. Doublet of cumulus, a borrowing.


vêtu

fr-adj

vêtu (feminine vêtue, masculine plural vêtus, feminine plural vêtues)

vêtue (feminine)
vêtus (masculine plural)
vêtues (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French and Old French vestu.

Armes : De gueules, à un saint Michel de carnation, vêtu d'argent à la romaine, […]

1867, Louis Pierre d' Hozier, Armorial général des registres de la noblesse de France, résumé et précédé d'une notice sur la famille d'Hozier, ... par E. de Barthélemy, page 39:

(heraldry, of a person) clothed (in a specified tincture)

(heraldry, of a field) covered with a vêtement (four triangles of a specified tincture which cover the corner of the shield, leaving a lozenge of the field in the middle)


gerbe

→ English: gerbe

From Middle French gerbe, garbe, from Old French jarbe, garbe, borrowed from Frankish *garbā (“sheaf”).


fasce

Borrowed (in this form) from Latin fascia. The Old French form faisse, fece, which underwent "re-Latinized" spelling in modern French, was popularly inherited.


séant

séant (feminine séante, masculine plural séants, feminine plural séantes)

séante (feminine)
séants (masculine plural)
séantes (feminine plural)


foudre

Inherited from Old French foudre, from Latin fulgura, nominative plural of fulgur, from Proto-Italic *folgos. Alternatively, from fulgere.


bâton

→ Crimean Tatar: baton

→ English: baton

→ Norwegian Bokmål: batong

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: batong

→ Polish: baton

→ Portuguese: batom

→ Russian: батон (baton)

→ Swedish: batong, ⇒ batongbröd

→ Vietnamese: ba toong

Inherited from Old French baston, probably from a Vulgar Latin bastōnem, itself a modification of Late Latin bastum, or possibly noun use of the verb *bastāre, from Ancient Greek βαστάζω (bastázō). Compare Italian bastone.


pavillon

Inherited from Middle French pavillon, from Old French paveilun, inherited from Latin pāpiliōnem. Doublet of papillon.


taillé

taillé (feminine taillée, masculine plural taillés, feminine plural taillées)

taillée (feminine)
taillés (masculine plural)
taillées (feminine plural)


rempli

rempli (feminine remplie, masculine plural remplis, feminine plural remplies)

remplie (feminine)
remplis (masculine plural)
remplies (feminine plural)

D'azur au chef d'or rempli de gueules, ou bien d'azur au chef coufu de gueules, bordé d'or.

1669, Marc de Vulson (sieur de La Colombière), La science heroique,traitant de la noblesse et de l'origine des armes: de leurs blasons & symboles,etc, page 106:

Azure with a chief or filled with gules, or azure with a couped chief gules, bordered in gold.

De gueules, au chef d'or rempli de gueules, ou bien d'azur, au chef coufu d'azur ou bordé d'or.

1754, Jean Baptiste Dupuy Demportes, Traite historique et moral du blason, ouvrage rempli de recherches curieuses et instructives, sur l'origine et les progres de cet Art, page 205:

Gules with a chief or filled with gules, or azure with a couped chief azure, bordered in gold.

Beurl (Styria). "Gules à un coude" (an elbow) "en triangle d'or, mouvant de l'angle senestre de l'écu en traverse, et recoupant en burèle rempli de sable." This seems needlessly complicated. For we have here merely a gyron (or) extending from […]

1886, Robert Charles Jenkins, Heraldry, English and Foreign, page 61:

Beurl (Styria). "Gules with a bend embowed" (an elbow) "in a triangle or, issuant from the sinister angle of the shield in a crosspiece, and intersecting in a bend filled with sable." This seems needlessly complicated. For we have here merely a gyron (or) extending from […]

(heraldry) filled (having another tincture than its own covering the greater part)


chauve-souris

chauves-souris (plural)
chauvesouris (alternative)
souris-chauve (alternative)
chauvessouriz (alternative)

Used as early as the 8th century in Gallic Late Latin calva sōrex (“bald mouse”); the first element ("bald") may originally be an alteration of Vulgar Latin *cawa (“crow, tawny owl”). Equivalent to chauve (“bald”) + souris (“mouse”).

(heraldry) a charge depicting the animal of the same name


flanc

→ Catalan: flanc

→ Dutch: flank

→ German: Flanke

→ Portuguese: flanco

→ Romanian: flanc

→ Spanish: flanco

Inherited from Middle French and Old French flanc, from Frankish *hlanka, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō. Cognate with Italian fianco.


blason

→ Portuguese: brasão

→ Spanish: blasón

Inherited from Middle French blason, from Old French blason.

(heraldry) heraldry (as a field of study)

(heraldry) blazon (description of a coat of arms)


bandé

bandé (feminine bandée, masculine plural bandés, feminine plural bandées)

bandée (feminine)
bandés (masculine plural)
bandées (feminine plural)

(heraldry) bendy; made up of diagonal stripes


couronné

couronné (feminine couronnée, masculine plural couronnés, feminine plural couronnées)

couronnée (feminine)
couronnés (masculine plural)
couronnées (feminine plural)


arraché

[…] l'arbre arraché de gueules; au 2 et 3 d'argent[…]

1998 July 6, Auguste Vachon, Claire Boudreau, Daniel Cogné, Genealogica & Heraldica: Ottawa 1996, University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN, page 450:


tranché

tranché (feminine tranchée, masculine plural tranchés, feminine plural tranchées)

tranchée (feminine)
tranchés (masculine plural)
tranchées (feminine plural)


embrassé

embrassé (feminine embrassée, masculine plural embrassés, feminine plural embrassées)

embrassée (feminine)
embrassés (masculine plural)
embrassées (feminine plural)

(heraldry) "embraced" on the specified side by sections that extend to the top and bottom of the opposite edges of the shield, dividing it into three sections with a triangle of the field in the middle (similar to chaussé or chapé but with the base of the triangle being the sinister or dexter side rather than the top or bottom)


côtoyé

côtoyé (feminine côtoyée, masculine plural côtoyés, feminine plural côtoyées)

côtoyée (feminine)
côtoyés (masculine plural)
côtoyées (feminine plural)


semé

semé (feminine semée, masculine plural semés, feminine plural semées)

semée (feminine)
semés (masculine plural)
semées (feminine plural)

(heraldry) sprinkled or sown; said of a field or charge when strewn with small charges


gueules

(heraldry) gules, red color of the blazon, only when used in the expression de gueules


mûre

From an alteration of Old French meure, from Vulgar Latin *mōra, from Latin mōrum, from Ancient Greek μόρον (móron).

(heraldry) murrey (dark red color as used in heraldry)


licorne

From Old French unicorne via reanalysis as une icorne (with indefinite article), followed by further reanalysis of the new definite form l'icorne, or from Italian alicorno, variant of liocorno.


cendrée

(heraldry, rare) the blazoning term for gray


barré

barré (feminine barrée, masculine plural barrés, feminine plural barrées)

barrée (feminine)
barrés (masculine plural)
barrées (feminine plural)

(heraldry) bendy sinister; made up of diagonal stripes


giron

From Old Frankish *gēro (compare Old High German gēro, Middle Dutch ghere).


herse

Inherited from Old French herce, from Latin hirpicem. The initial aspiration is said to be onomatopoetic, but may also be due to influence by the unrelated Germanic words at hand in Old Norse herfi, English harrow.


ondé

ondé (feminine ondée, masculine plural ondés, feminine plural ondées)

ondée (feminine)
ondés (masculine plural)
ondées (feminine plural)


losange

From Middle French losange, losenge, from Old French losenge (“a drawn shape on fabric, rhombus”), of obscure origin. Perhaps ultimately from Gaulish *lausā (“flat stone, stone slab”). Alternatively, perhaps from earlier Old French losenge (“flattery, deceitful praise”), from the notion the shape was reminiscent of the square flat slabs of tombstones upon which fulsome epithets of undue praise and flattery were written.

unk

obscure


vouivre

Variant of guivre (a form influenced by Germanic), from Old French guivre (cf. also the form wivre), from Latin vīpera. See also the borrowed doublet vipère.


écarteler

écarteler (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
écartelant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
écartelé (participle past)
écartèle (first-person indicative present singular)
écartèles (indicative present second-person singular)
écartèle (indicative present singular third-person)
écartelons (first-person indicative plural present)
écartelez (indicative plural present second-person)
écartèlent (indicative plural present third-person)
écartelais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
écartelais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
écartelait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
écartelions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
écarteliez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
écartelaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
écartelai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
écartelas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
écartela (historic indicative past singular third-person)
écartelâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
écartelâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
écartelèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
écartèlerai (first-person future indicative singular)
écartèleras (future indicative second-person singular)
écartèlera (future indicative singular third-person)
écartèlerons (first-person future indicative plural)
écartèlerez (future indicative plural second-person)
écartèleront (future indicative plural third-person)
écartèlerais (conditional first-person singular)
écartèlerais (conditional second-person singular)
écartèlerait (conditional singular third-person)
écartèlerions (conditional first-person plural)
écartèlerions (conditional first-person plural)
écartèleriez (conditional plural second-person)
écartèleriez (conditional plural second-person)
écartèleraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
écartèle (first-person present singular subjunctive)
écartèles (present second-person singular subjunctive)
écartèle (present singular subjunctive third-person)
écartelions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
écarteliez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
écartèlent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
écartelasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
écartelasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
écartelât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
écartelassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
écartelassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
écartelassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
écartèle (imperative second-person singular)
écartelons (first-person imperative plural)
écartelez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Old French esquarterer, with dissimilation. Related to quartier.

(heraldry) to divide a shield into four parts


abîme

abîmes (plural)
abime (alternative)
abyme (alternative archaic)
abisme (alternative obsolete)
abysme (alternative obsolete)
abŷme (alternative rare)

Inherited from Old French abisme, inherited from Late Latin *abyssimus, a superlative of Latin abyssus (“bottomless pit”), from Ancient Greek ἄβυσσος (ábussos). Compare Spanish, Portuguese abismo. Doublet of abysse.

(heraldry) abyss of a shield, fess point


pourpre

Inherited from Old French, from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).

(heraldry) purpure; purple color as used in heraldry


vergette

From verge (“rod”) + -ette, from Latin virga.

(heraldry) a pale at least fivefold thinner than usual


accolé

fr-adj

accolé (feminine accolée, masculine plural accolés, feminine plural accolées)

accolée (feminine)
accolés (masculine plural)
accolées (feminine plural)


écartelé

écartelé (feminine écartelée, masculine plural écartelés, feminine plural écartelées)

écartelée (feminine)
écartelés (masculine plural)
écartelées (feminine plural)


éployé

éployé (feminine éployée, masculine plural éployés, feminine plural éployées)

éployée (feminine)
éployés (masculine plural)
éployées (feminine plural)


dextre

Inherited from Middle French dextre, borrowed from Latin dextra or dextera; replaced the popular/inherited Old French form destre.

(heraldry) dexter; right-hand side of the shield


cantonné

cantonné (feminine cantonnée, masculine plural cantonnés, feminine plural cantonnées)

cantonnée (feminine)
cantonnés (masculine plural)
cantonnées (feminine plural)

D'argent à la croix potencée d'or cantonnée de quatre croisettes du même, qui est de Jérusalem.

Argent, a cross potent or surrounded by four crosslets of the same, which is of Jerusalem.

Bouer de sinople, au sautoir d'argent, chargé de cinq fleurs de lis d'azur, cantonné de quatre têtes de taureau d'or.

1861, Nouvelle encyclopédie théologique, page 649:

Bouer vert, a saltire argent charged with five fleurs-de-lis azure, surrounded by four bull's heads or.

(heraldry) surrounded (speaking of a cross).


tiercé

tiercé (feminine tiercée, masculine plural tiercés, feminine plural tiercées)

tiercée (feminine)
tiercés (masculine plural)
tiercées (feminine plural)

(heraldry) divided into three equal parts of three different tinctures; said of an escutcheon


heaume

Inherited from Old French helme, from Early Medieval Latin helmus, from Frankish *helm, from Proto-Germanic *helmaz.

(historical, heraldry) a mediaeval military helmet protecting the head and face


senestre

senestres (plural)
sénestre (alternative)
senêtre (alternative)

From Middle French senestre, from Old French senestre, from Late Latin sinextrum, from Latin sinistrum. Doublet of sinistre, a borrowing from Latin.
The expected result of the Middle French senestre, pronounced approximately as /səˈnɛːtrə/, should have been senêtre in modern French (which does exist in heraldic jargon). A spelling-pronunciation, with etymologically restored /s/, came to predominate as the word became increasingly archaic, having been driven out of common usage as the word for "left" by gauche in the sixteenth century.

(heraldry) sinister; left-hand side of the shield


tanné

(heraldry) tenné, a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown


acculé

acculé (feminine acculée, masculine plural acculés, feminine plural acculées)

acculée (feminine)
acculés (masculine plural)
acculées (feminine plural)

(heraldry) of a quadruped (especially a horse): represented rearing up as if ready to gallop


alésé

alésé (feminine alésée, masculine plural alésés, feminine plural alésées)

alésée (feminine)
alésés (masculine plural)
alésées (feminine plural)

(heraldry) detached; not reaching the edges; often said of a cross


cordé

cordé (feminine cordée, masculine plural cordés, feminine plural cordées)

cordée (feminine)
cordés (masculine plural)
cordées (feminine plural)

(heraldry) represented as a rope; compare câblé

(heraldry) strung: of a bow, having a string of a specified color


emmanché

emmanché (feminine emmanchée, masculine plural emmanchés, feminine plural emmanchées)

emmanchée (feminine)
emmanchés (masculine plural)
emmanchées (feminine plural)

(heraldry, of axes or hammers) having handles that are of a different tincture or layer of enamel


dentelé

dentelé (feminine dentelée, masculine plural dentelés, feminine plural dentelées)

dentelée (feminine)
dentelés (masculine plural)
dentelées (feminine plural)


annelet

Inherited from Old French anelet, diminutive of anel (“ring”) (modern anneau).


besant

(heraldry) roundel of metal, especially of or (“gold”): bezant


issant

issant (feminine issante, masculine plural issants, feminine plural issantes)

issante (feminine)
issants (masculine plural)
issantes (feminine plural)


tourteau

(heraldry) roundel (of any color except or or argent)


écusson

Inherited from Old French escuchon, escusson.


tréflé

tréflé (feminine tréflée, masculine plural tréflés, feminine plural tréflées)

tréflée (feminine)
tréflés (masculine plural)
tréflées (feminine plural)


morné

morné (feminine mornée, masculine plural mornés, feminine plural mornées)

mornée (feminine)
mornés (masculine plural)
mornées (feminine plural)

From Middle French morné, from Old French morné, from Old French morner, possibly from morne (“ring placed around a lance, sword, etc.”), ultimately from Latin mora (“obstacle, impediment”). Alternatively derived from Old Dutch *mornon, from Frankish *murnōn, from Proto-Germanic *murnōną, *murnaną (“to mourn”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to ponder, remember”). Cognate with English mourn.


cléché

fr-adj

cléché (feminine cléchée, masculine plural cléchés, feminine plural cléchées)

cléchée (feminine)
cléchés (masculine plural)
cléchées (feminine plural)
cleché (alternative)
clesché (alternative)


becqué

becqué (feminine becquée, masculine plural becqués, feminine plural becquées)

becquée (feminine)
becqués (masculine plural)
becquées (feminine plural)

(heraldry) beaked (having a beak of a different colour)


cannelé

cannelé (feminine cannelée, masculine plural cannelés, feminine plural cannelées)

cannelée (feminine)
cannelés (masculine plural)
cannelées (feminine plural)


coulissé

coulissé (feminine coulissée, masculine plural coulissés, feminine plural coulissées)

coulissée (feminine)
coulissés (masculine plural)
coulissées (feminine plural)

... gueules, donjonné de trois tours de gueules, coulissé de sable. La ville de Landau porte de gueules à une porte d'argent, maçonnée et crénelée de tourelles, ajourées de sable. Sur chaque tourelle est un hongrois adossé, de[…]

1900, Philippe André Grandidier, Nouvelles œuvres inédites, page 281:


macle

→ English: macle

The second sense is from Latin mascula, from Germanic (see English mascle for details). The first sense either has the same origin, or derives from macula (from Italic).


anille

Inherited from Latin anaticula (“duckling”).


chabot

Attested since at least 1220 (as cabot), of unclear origin. Perhaps via Occitan from (Vulgar) Latin capoceus, from caput.


brochant

fr-adj

brochant (feminine brochante, masculine plural brochants, feminine plural brochantes)

brochante (feminine)
brochants (masculine plural)
brochantes (feminine plural)

(heraldry) Having a charge overlying a semé field, or generally any charge overall


caparaçonné

caparaçonné (feminine caparaçonnée, masculine plural caparaçonnés, feminine plural caparaçonnées)

caparaçonnée (feminine)
caparaçonnés (masculine plural)
caparaçonnées (feminine plural)


merlette

From merle + -ette, literally “little blackbird”, the word for the male blackbird being mostly female until the 16th century (a male: "une merle", a little male: "une merlette").
Meaning 2 (hen blackbird) appears in 1839.


componé

fr-adj

componé (feminine componée, masculine plural componés, feminine plural componées)

componée (feminine)
componés (masculine plural)
componées (feminine plural)


coticé

coticé (feminine coticée, masculine plural coticés, feminine plural coticées)

coticée (feminine)
coticés (masculine plural)
coticées (feminine plural)


patté

patté (feminine pattée, masculine plural pattés, feminine plural pattées)

pattée (feminine)
pattés (masculine plural)
pattées (feminine plural)

(heraldry) (in feminine form) Narrow at the inner end, and very broad at the other end, or having its arms of that shape; said of a cross


billeté

billeté (feminine billetée, masculine plural billetés, feminine plural billetées)

billetée (feminine)
billetés (masculine plural)
billetées (feminine plural)


blasonnement

(heraldry) blazon (description of a coat of arms)


denché

denché (feminine denchée, masculine plural denchés, feminine plural denchées)

denchée (feminine)
denchés (masculine plural)
denchées (feminine plural)

(heraldry) scalloped (bordered with little semicircles or similar)


adextré

adextré (feminine adextrée, masculine plural adextrés, feminine plural adextrées)

adextrée (feminine)
adextrés (masculine plural)
adextrées (feminine plural)


fleur de lis

→ Russian: флёр-де-лис (fljór-dɛ-lis)


lampassé

lampassé (feminine lampassée, masculine plural lampassés, feminine plural lampassées)

lampassée (feminine)
lampassés (masculine plural)
lampassées (feminine plural)


caudé

caudé (feminine caudée, masculine plural caudés, feminine plural caudées)

caudée (feminine)
caudés (masculine plural)
caudées (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin caudātus, from Classical Latin cauda (“tail”).

[…] au quatrième, d'or, au lion passant de sable, armé, lampassé, et caudé de gueules; au chef de gueules, chargé de (1) […]

1890, Commission des Antiquités de la Seine-Inférieure, Rouen, Bulletin de la commission des antiquités e la Seine-Inférieure ..., page 238:


abeillé

abeillé (feminine abeillée, masculine plural abeillés, feminine plural abeillées)

abeillée (feminine)
abeillés (masculine plural)
abeillées (feminine plural)


accorné

accorné (feminine accornée, masculine plural accornés, feminine plural accornées)

accornée (feminine)
accornés (masculine plural)
accornées (feminine plural)


échiqueter

échiqueter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
échiquetant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
échiqueté (participle past)
échiquète (first-person indicative present singular)
échiquètes (indicative present second-person singular)
échiquète (indicative present singular third-person)
échiquetons (first-person indicative plural present)
échiquetez (indicative plural present second-person)
échiquètent (indicative plural present third-person)
échiquetais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
échiquetais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
échiquetait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
échiquetions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
échiquetiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
échiquetaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
échiquetai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
échiquetas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
échiqueta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
échiquetâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
échiquetâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
échiquetèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
échiquèterai (first-person future indicative singular)
échiquèterai (first-person future indicative singular)
échiquèteras (future indicative second-person singular)
échiquèteras (future indicative second-person singular)
échiquètera (future indicative singular third-person)
échiquètera (future indicative singular third-person)
échiquèterons (first-person future indicative plural)
échiquèterons (first-person future indicative plural)
échiquèterez (future indicative plural second-person)
échiquèterez (future indicative plural second-person)
échiquèteront (future indicative plural third-person)
échiquèteront (future indicative plural third-person)
échiquèterais (conditional first-person singular)
échiquèterais (conditional first-person singular)
échiquèterais (conditional second-person singular)
échiquèterais (conditional second-person singular)
échiquèterait (conditional singular third-person)
échiquèterait (conditional singular third-person)
échiquèterions (conditional first-person plural)
échiquèterions (conditional first-person plural)
échiquèteriez (conditional plural second-person)
échiquèteriez (conditional plural second-person)
échiquèteraient (conditional plural third-person)
échiquèteraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
échiquète (first-person present singular subjunctive)
échiquètes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
échiquète (present singular subjunctive third-person)
échiquetions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
échiquetiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
échiquètent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
échiquetasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
échiquetasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
échiquetât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
échiquetassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
échiquetassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
échiquetassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
échiquète (imperative second-person singular)
échiquetons (first-person imperative plural)
échiquetez (imperative plural second-person)

(heraldry) to divide (esp. a coat of arms) into a chequered pattern


héritier présomptif

fr-noun

héritier présomptif m (plural héritiers présomptifs, feminine héritière présomptive)

héritiers présomptifs (plural)
héritière présomptive (feminine)


héritier apparent

héritier apparent m (plural héritiers apparents, feminine héritière apparente)

héritiers apparents (plural)
héritière apparente (feminine)


de fer

(heraldry, rare) iron, Eisenfarbe (a grey tincture)


virolé

fr-adj

virolé (feminine virolée, masculine plural virolés, feminine plural virolées)

virolée (feminine)
virolés (masculine plural)
virolées (feminine plural)


créquier

créquiers (plural)
crecquier (alternative)
criquier (alternative)

From Middle French crequier, from Old French crekere, equivalent to crèque + -ier.

(heraldry) a créquier, a stylized tree or thornbush resembling a chandelier


pamé

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pamé.

(heraldry) having its mouth open (of an exhausted or gasping fish, lifeless dolphin, elderly eagle, etc)


Toison d'or

(Greek mythology, heraldry) Golden Fleece


guivre

Inherited from Old French guivre (whence also vouivre), from Latin vīpera. Related to English wyvern.

(heraldry, mythology) a guivre (seprentine creature, variously limbless or winged and two-legged)


papelonné

papelonné (feminine papelonnée, masculine plural papelonnés, feminine plural papelonnées)

papelonnée (feminine)
papelonnés (masculine plural)
papelonnées (feminine plural)
papillonné (alternative rare)

→ English: papelonné

From Old French papelloné, papeilloné, from an archaic parallel form to papillon (“butterfly”).

For quotations using this term, see Citations:papelonné.


éviré

(heraldry) emasculated; not pizzled, lacking its pizzle


engrelé

engrelé (feminine engrelée, masculine plural engrelés, feminine plural engrelées)

engrelée (feminine)
engrelés (masculine plural)
engrelées (feminine plural)