chilindre

desctree

French: cylindre
→ Ottoman Turkish: سلندر (silinder), سیلندر (silindir)
Turkish: silindir
→ Romanian: cilindru

→ English: cylinder
→ Japanese: シリンダー (shirindā)
→ Korean: 실린더 (sillindeo)

First known attestation 1380 in Problemes d'Aristote by Evrart de Conty. From Latin cylindrus, that borrowed from Ancient Greek κύλινδρος (kúlindros).


marrien

French: merrain


tuel

French: tuyau

ung tuel d'argent

1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 77:


pugnir

Hypercorrection of punir — no g in the original Latin pūniō.


effreer

effreer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
effreant (gerund participle present)

French: effrayer

Car, pour escarmuche ou pour assaut, que on y face, riens ne s'effreent ne se desroient ossi


escaille

French: écaille

là où toutes les autres creatures, nature les a revestuës de coquilles, de gousses, d’escorse, de poil, de laine, de pointes, de cuir, de bourre, de plume, d’escaille, de toison, et de soye selon le besoin de leur estre

Michel de Montaigne, Essais (Livre II), edition P. Villey et Saulnier, 1595

While all other creatures, natures has adorned them with shells, cloves, bark, fur, wool, spines, leather, hair, feathers, scales, fleeces or silk depending on what their being needs

scale (flat, hard part of an outer coating)

ce sont les escailles, dequoy nos ancestres avoient fort accoustumé de se servir

These are the armored plates our ancestors had the strong habit of using


Iappon

French: Japon


enrichiment

enrichment (act of making something more enriched)


orfrais

French: orfroi


nombrer

nombrer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
nombrant (gerund participle present)

French: nombrer


destaindre

to put out; to extinguish (a fire, etc.)


iaunisse

Trouvez du plaintain qui naisse sous une maison. Que celuy qui a la jaunisse pisse dessus par plusieurs fois, tant que la plante en meure. En mesure que elle en mourra, la iaunisse passera.

1601, Laurent Joubert, Isaac Joubert, La première et seconde partie des erreurs populaires, touchant la médecine & le régime de santé:

Find some plaintain that's been growing under a house. He who has the jaundices shall piss on it several times, until the plant dies from it. As it dies, the jaundice will pass.


mendacieux

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mendacieux m (feminine singular mendacieuse, masculine plural mendacieux, feminine plural mendacieuses)

mendacieuse (feminine singular)
mendacieux (masculine plural)
mendacieuses (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin mendāciōsus.

La venue de l'Antechrist sera par conduicte du diable, il fera des miracles: mais ils seront mendacieux, car seulement seront apparents, pource qu'ils tendront à deception, & perdition.

1562, François Le Picart, Les Sermons et Iinstructions Chrestiennes pour tous les iours de l'Advent, iusquea a Noel, & de tous les Dimenches et Festes depuis Noel, iusques à Caresme.:

The coming of the Antichrist will be by the conduct of the devil. He will do miracles, but they will be false, for the will be apparent, because they will tend towards deception and loss.

false, especially in a way intending to deceive


Turquois

Turquois m (feminine singular Turquoise, masculine plural Turquois, feminine plural Turquoises)

Turquoise (feminine singular)
Turquois (masculine plural)
Turquoises (feminine plural)


precieux

precieux m (feminine singular precieuse, masculine plural precieux, feminine plural precieuses)

precieuse (feminine singular)
precieux (masculine plural)
precieuses (feminine plural)

French: précieux


islette

→ English: islet


insceu

insceu m (feminine singular insceue, masculine plural insceus, feminine plural insceues)

insceue (feminine singular)
insceus (masculine plural)
insceues (feminine plural)

French: insu


intrincable

intrincable m or f (plural intrincables)

Que continuelle cure des cogitations extermine le corps, les fatigacions de la pensee et les questions intrincables des choses deseichent toutes les humeurs.

1482, Fergret, Mirouer de la vie humaine:


temprer

temprer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
temprant (gerund participle present)


pristin

pristin m (feminine singular pristine, masculine plural pristins, feminine plural pristines)

pristine (feminine singular)
pristins (masculine plural)
pristines (feminine plural)

French: pristin

→ English: pristine


tocquer

tocquer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
tocquant (gerund participle present)

& luy tocquer la teste comme à un Prince

published 1599, L'Histoire d'Ogier le Dannois, page 84

to touch his head, as one does to a Prince


menu vair

English: miniver


mulcte

First attested 1358, borrowed from Latin mulcta, a variant form of multa.


mulcter

mulcter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
mulctant (gerund participle present)


relinquir

From Old French relenquir, with the second e replaced by an i to more closely match the Latin source relinquō.


delaisser

delaisser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
delaissant (gerund participle present)


progeniteur

First known attestation 1347, borrowed from Latin prōgenitor.


predicat

→ English: predicate

French: prédicat

Vous voyez donc que c'est que un subiect maieur, & un mineur, & un predicat.

1571, Franc Sedile, Les sciences et secrets des arts, page 9:


Indois

Indois m (plural Indois, feminine singular Indoise, feminine plural Indoises)

Indois (plural)
Indoise (feminine singular)
Indoises (feminine plural)


pennache

desctree

French: panache
→ English: panache
→ Italian: panache
→ Romanian: panaș


heredité

[…] resoult qu'une heredité ne se peut recongnoistre ny accepter au nom d'un autre sans expres & special mandement

1580, Jean de Tournes, Trias judiciel du second notaire de Jean Papon, conseiller du roy, et lieutenant general au bailliage de Forestz. Seconde edition reveue & augmentee par l'autheur, page 112:

[…] resolved that the right to inherit cannot be recognised nor accepted in another's name except without a special, explicit command


houssepillier

houssepillier (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
houssepillant (gerund participle present)


fromenter

fromenter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
fromentant (gerund participle present)

(of a field, etc.) to prepare for the planting of wheat


forboire

Étienne Pasquier (1529-1615), Pourparler du Prince
Alexandre estoit bon coutumier de se forboire

(reflexive, se forboire) to drink to excess


fouller

fouller (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
foullant (gerund participle present)


espraindre

French: épreindre

From Old French espreindre, espraindre, from Vulgar Latin *expremere, from Latin exprimere, present active infinitive of exprimō.


manouvrer

manouvrer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
manouvrant (gerund participle present)


estiquette

French: étiquette

English: etiquette

estiquier, variant of estacher (“to stick”) + -ette.


estiquier

estiquier (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
estiquant (gerund participle present)


estacher

estacher (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
estachant (gerund participle present)


esmoy

French: émoi


aboscher

aboscher (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
aboschant (gerund participle present)


esbaucher

esbaucher (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
esbauchant (gerund participle present)


desinfecter

desinfecter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
desinfectant (gerund participle present)


despossesser

despossesser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
despossessant (gerund participle present)

to dispossess (to take something from someone)


desbaucher

desbaucher (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
desbauchant (gerund participle present)

French: débaucher

→ English: debauch

to entice someone away from his or her work or duty


morine

Old French murine, from the adjective murin, from the verb murir, morir (“to die”).


coronnel

→ English: coronel

⇒ English: colonel

→ Norman: coronel

→ Old Occitan: coronel

⇒ Occitan: coronèl, coronèu

→ Portuguese: coronel

→ Spanish: coronel

From Italian colonnello (“colonel; commanding officer of a column of soldiers who march at the head of a regiment”) from Old Italian colonnella (“small company or column of soldiers at the head of a regiment, commanded by a colonel”) via compagnia colonnella (literally “little column company”) from Medieval Latin colonellus; diminutives of colonna, from Latin columna (“pillar, column”), collateral form of columen, from Proto-Italic *kolamen, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (“to rise, be tall”). Compare French colonel, a later borrowing closer to the Italian source form.

der

colonel; a middle-ranking military officer


combinacion

combination (act; instance of combining)


devotieux

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devotieux m (feminine singular devotieuse, masculine plural devotieux, feminine plural devotieuses)

devotieuse (feminine singular)
devotieux (masculine plural)
devotieuses (feminine plural)


enconcher

enconcher (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
enconchant (gerund participle present)


caligineux

caligineux m (feminine singular caligineuse, masculine plural caligineux, feminine plural caligineuses)

caligineuse (feminine singular)
caligineux (masculine plural)
caligineuses (feminine plural)


enconché

frm-past participle

enconché m (feminine singular enconchee, masculine plural enconchez, feminine plural enconchees)

enconchee (feminine singular)
enconchez (masculine plural)
enconchees (feminine plural)


traicté

From Old French traitié, from Latin tractatus, from tracto.


traicté

traicté m (feminine singular traictee, masculine plural traictez, feminine plural traictees)

traictee (feminine singular)
traictez (masculine plural)
traictees (feminine plural)


pacquage

packing (instance of putting into a container)


pacquer

pacquer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
pacquant (gerund participle present)


vixere

desctree

French: viscère m
→? Romanian: viscere n pl

Borrowed from Latin viscera n pl (first attested in the plural in 1478).

(anatomy, chiefly in the plural) viscera


boucquain

French: bouquin


boufon

→ English: buffoon

French: bouffon

Norman: bouffon


arbaleste

French: arbalète (see there for further descendants)

→ Occitan: arbalèta


augive

Old French oegive. More at French ogive.


athome

French: atome (see there for further descendants)

→ Middle English: attome
English: atom
Scots: atom

Borrowed from Latin atomus, itself borrowed from ἄτομος (átomos). The h is unetymological but not unprecedented in Middle French. Compare autheur (no h in the origin Latin auctor).

atom (in classical philosophy, a tiny indivisible unit)


accoustrement

accoustrer + -ment, from Old French acostrer from Vulgar Latin *accosturare (“sew up”), from Latin ad + consutura.


agrarien

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agrarien m (feminine singular agrarienne, masculine plural agrariens, feminine plural agrariennes)

agrarienne (feminine singular)
agrariens (masculine plural)
agrariennes (feminine plural)

English: agrarian


acoustrer

acoustrer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
acoustrant (gerund participle present)


enferrer

enferrer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
enferrant (gerund participle present)

French: enferrer


querir

French: quérir
Sabir: quérir

From Old French querre (with conjugation change), from Latin quaerere, present active infinitive of quaerō (“I seek”).


expulsif

expulsif m (feminine singular expulsifve, masculine plural expulsifz, feminine plural expulsifves)

expulsifve (feminine singular)
expulsifz (masculine plural)
expulsifves (feminine plural)


oyseux

oyseux m (feminine singular oyseuse, masculine plural oyseux, feminine plural oyseuses)

oyseuse (feminine singular)
oyseux (masculine plural)
oyseuses (feminine plural)

French: oiseux

From Old French oisos, from Latin ōtiōsus.


effronter

effronter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
effrontant (gerund participle present)

(transitive) to smash someone's forehead


estiquet

→ English: ticket

(law) a slip of paper with names of witnesses on it


quiddité

14th century, borrowed from Latin quidditas.

en laquelle le propre essentiel, ou la quiddité (comme ils parlent) est dicte du subiect: il faut chercher une autre cause de necessité […]

1578, Francesco Giorgio, translated by Guy Le Fèvre de La Boderie, L'harmonie du monde divisé en trois cantiques, page 43:


diarrie

English: diarrhoea

desctree

French: diarrhée, diarrhœe (obsolete)
→ Dutch: diarree
→ Norwegian Bokmål: diaré
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: diaré
→ Romanian: diaree
→ Swedish: diarré

First known attestation 1372, borrowed from Latin diarrhoea.


systeme

French: système

First attested in 1552. Borrowed from Ancient Greek σύστημα (sústēma).


autompne

Et lautre en autompne cest assauoir en septembre ou en octobre par telle maniere q[ue] es lieux froiz la semee soit faicte plus meure et celle de printemps plus tard.

1486, Pietro de Crescenzi, Le livre des prouffits champestres et rurauls:

1503, Le guidon en francoys avec que les addicions en ung chacun principal chapitre selon Galien, Avicenne, Rasis, Halyabas, Arnauld de ville neuue, Salicet, Dinus de florence, Petrus de argisata, Lanfranc Thederic, & autres modernes; f.208v
Il est iuge aussi p[er] ypocras in sexto amphoris, que in ver & en autompne viennent le plus souuent.

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

Le riche Autompne/ ou na nul reuenir

1513, Jean Lemaire de Belges, Chermette de Latour, “La description du temple de Venus”, in Lepistre du roy a Hector de Troye, et aucunes aultres oeuures assez dignes de veoir:


subiecter

subiecter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
subiectant (gerund participle present)


escran

French: écran
→ Albanian: ekran
→ Azerbaijani: ekran
→ Bulgarian: екра́н (ekrán)
→ Crimean Tatar: ekran
→ Khmer: អេក្រង់ (eekrɑŋ)
→ Polish: ekran
→ Portuguese: ecrã, écran
→ Romanian: ecran
→ Russian: экран (ekran), экра́нъ (ekrán) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
→ Armenian: էկրան (ēkran)
→ Estonian: ekraan
→ Lithuanian: ekranas
→ Georgian: ეკრანი (eḳrani)
→ Kazakh: экран (ékran)
→ Uyghur: ئېكران (ëkran)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: екран
Latin script: ekran
→ Turkish: ekran
→ Ukrainian: екра́н (ekrán)

Old French, borrowed from Middle Dutch scherm.

screen (physical barrier for protection or to block out light)


entour

French: entour

si regarda les dames & les damoiselles qui entour elle estoient

1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 53:

then she looked at the ladies and the damsels that were around her


Nazarien

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Nazarien m (feminine singular Nazariene, masculine plural Nazariens, feminine plural Nazarienes)

Nazariene (feminine singular)
Nazariens (masculine plural)
Nazarienes (feminine plural)


costelette

French: côtelette (see there for further descendants)

Norman: côtelette

→ Galician: costeleta

First known attestation 1393, from coste + -elette.


preteur

French: préteur

praetor (consul in command of a Roman army)


tallent

ie voys bien que du baisier ne avez vous nul tallent

1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 17:

I see that you don't want to give me the kiss (I see well that of the kiss you have no desire)


illec

Or me dictes fist Lancelot, des lettres qui illec sont escriptes, savez vous qui les y fist mettre

1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 12:

Now tell me, said Lancelot, about these letters that are written here, do you know who put them here?


annuyter

Old French anuitier, corresponding to a- + nuyt + -er.

(impersonal, intransitive) to become nighttime


mallement

unfortunately (in a manner which is unfortunate)

lui demanderent s'il estoit mallement blecé

1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 76:

[they] asked him if he was badly injured


hucher

hucher (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
huchant (gerund participle present)

Old French huchier. Probably a variant of huer, from the onomatopoeia hu.


entreabatre

(reflexive, s'entreabatre) to knock one another over


ensenglanté

ensenglanté m (feminine singular ensenglantee, masculine plural ensenglantez, feminine plural ensenglantees)

ensenglantee (feminine singular)
ensenglantez (masculine plural)
ensenglantees (feminine plural)

French: ensanglanté


estonné

estonné m (feminine singular estonnee, masculine plural estonnez, feminine plural estonnees)

estonnee (feminine singular)
estonnez (masculine plural)
estonnees (feminine plural)

French: étonné


tournoyement

French: tournoiement


estourdi

estourdi m (feminine singular estourdie, masculine plural estourdis, feminine plural estourdies)

estourdie (feminine singular)
estourdis (masculine plural)
estourdies (feminine plural)


estourdi

French: étourdi


tournoy

French: tournoi


entrehurter

entrehurter (infinitive)
estre + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
entrehurtant (gerund participle present)

(reflexive, s'entrehurter) to crash into one another


haittier

haittier (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
haittant (gerund participle present)


meffaire

French: méfaire


maugré

French: malgré


deshonnourer

deshonnourer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
deshonnourant (gerund participle present)

French: déshonorer


hermitaige

French: ermitage


Artus

Arthur (usually in reference to King Arthur)


q̃l

q̃l m (feminine singular q̃lle, masculine plural q̃lz, feminine plural q̃lles)

q̃lle (feminine singular)
q̃lz (masculine plural)
q̃lles (feminine plural)


entrefraper

entrefraper (infinitive)
estre + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
entrefrapant (gerund participle present)

(reflexive, s'entrefraper) Alternative form of entrefrapper


povreté

French: pauvreté


hebergier

hebergier (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
hebergeant (gerund participle present)

French: héberger

to put up (to provide accommodation for visitors)


desprisonner

desprisonner (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
desprisonnant (gerund participle present)


mesaisé

mesaisé m (feminine singular mesaisee, masculine plural mesaisez, feminine plural mesaisees)

mesaisee (feminine singular)
mesaisez (masculine plural)
mesaisees (feminine plural)

wretched (in a poor, tired, injured, sick (etc.) condition)


hebergement

French: hébergement


venoison

French: venaison


desloyal

desloyal m (feminine singular desloyale, masculine plural desloyals, feminine plural desloyales)

desloyale (feminine singular)
desloyals (masculine plural)
desloyales (feminine plural)

French: déloyal


s'il vous plaist

French: s’il vous plaît


remercyer

remercyer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
remercyant (gerund participle present)

French: remercier


voulentiers

French: volontiers


honnourer

honnourer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
honnourant (gerund participle present)

French: honorer

to honor (to treat with honor and respect)


povoit

French: pouvait

third-person singular imperfect indicative of povoir


prael

French: préau

yard (enclosed area for a specific purpose)


fusmes

French: fûmes

first-person plural past historic of estre


vasselaige

French: vasselage

Old French vasselage. See vassal, -aige.

vassalhood (state, quality of being a vassal)


pausmer

pausmer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
pausmant (gerund participle present)

French: pâmer

(reflexive, se pausmer) to walk around; to walk about


mensongier

mensongier (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
mensongeant (gerund participle present)


mensongier

mensongier m (feminine singular mensongiere, masculine plural mensongiers, feminine plural mensongieres)

mensongiere (feminine singular)
mensongiers (masculine plural)
mensongieres (feminine plural)


aloser

aloser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
alosant (gerund participle present)


chetif

chetif m (feminine singular chetifve, masculine plural chetifs, feminine plural chetifves)

chetifve (feminine singular)
chetifs (masculine plural)
chetifves (feminine plural)

French: chétif


palefroy

French: palefroi

Old French palefrei, from Late Latin paraverēdus.


maleureux

maleureux m (feminine singular maleureuse, masculine plural maleureux, feminine plural maleureuses)

maleureuse (feminine singular)
maleureux (masculine plural)
maleureuses (feminine plural)


maleureux

maleureux m (plural maleureux, feminine singular maleureuse, feminine plural maleureuses)

maleureux (plural)
maleureuse (feminine singular)
maleureuses (feminine plural)

French: malheureux


mucer

mucer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
muçant (gerund participle present)

French: musser


ceans

French: céans

ie te rendray cellui que tu es ceans venu querre

1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 32:

I will give to you the one you came here to look for


liepart

French: léopard


esgratigner

esgratigner (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
esgratignant (gerund participle present)

French: égratigner

une damoiselle qui esgratignoit son viz

a young lady who was scratching her face


signifiance

desc

French: signifiance (now literary or technical)

Old French senefiance, the signi- sequence being added back to more closely match the original Latin etymon significantia.

l'ermite […] dist a Monsieur Gauvain la signifiance du serpent

1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 33:

the hermit […] told Gawain the meaning of the serpent


ceulx

French: ceux

car tous ceulx qui en ces dances entroient perdoient le sens ne n'en povoient partir

1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 34:

For all those who entered into those dances lost all sense of reason and couldn't leave


iournee

French: journée


despuceller

despuceller (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
despucellant (gerund participle present)

French: dépuceler

to deflower; to depucelate (take a woman's virginity)


quartorze

French: quatorze


eschiquier

French: échiquier


delivrance

French: délivrance


ottroyer

ottroyer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
ottroyant (gerund participle present)

French: octroyer


mercyer

mercyer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
mercyant (gerund participle present)


arrengier

arrengier (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
arrengeant (gerund participle present)

French: arranger

to arrange (put into specific positions)


lyé

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lyé m (feminine singular lyee, masculine plural lyez, feminine plural lyees)

lyee (feminine singular)
lyez (masculine plural)
lyees (feminine plural)


merveiller

merveiller (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
merveillant (gerund participle present)

(reflexive, se merveiller) to marvel (at)


aracher

aracher (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
arachant (gerund participle present)

French: arracher


mescreant

crestiens ou mescreans

1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 39:


crestien

crestien m (plural crestiens, feminine singular crestienne, feminine plural crestiennes)

crestiens (plural)
crestienne (feminine singular)
crestiennes (feminine plural)

French: chrétien, Chrétien

Old French chrestien < Latin christianus.

Christian (follower of the religion Christianity)


esquacher

esquacher (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
esquachant (gerund participle present)


transgloutir

transgloutir (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
transgloutissant (gerund participle present)


iadiz

French: jadis


detranchier

detranchier (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
detranchant (gerund participle present)


ainçois

aincois

some manuscripts do not use the character ç


consuivir

Variant of consuyvre, from Latin consequor.


crouppe

French: croupe


esperonner

esperonner (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
esperonnant (gerund participle present)

French: éperonner


eschine

French: échine


chieux

French: chez


enfraindre

French: enfreindre

From Old French enfraindre, from Vulgar Latin *infrangere, from Latin infringō, infringere.


atourner

atourner (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
atournant (gerund participle present)

French: atourner

Car il y estoit moult bel, moult fort & bien atourné de bons murs

1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 43:

For it [the castle] was very beautiful, very strong and very well furnished with good walls

to equip; to furnish with; to provide with


despit

French: dépit


desormais

French: désormais


esmayé

frm-past participle

esmayé m (feminine singular esmayee, masculine plural esmayez, feminine plural esmayees)

esmayee (feminine singular)
esmayez (masculine plural)
esmayees (feminine plural)


achoison

From Old French achoison, achaison, ochoison, from Latin occasiō, occasiōnem, with the initial -a- due to influence from accusatiō (the Old French word in many cases having the sense of "accusation"); an alternative etymology is that it is a calque of Latin occasiō using achoir.


Morgain

(Arthurian legend) Morgan (i.e. Morgan le Fay)


quittement

Old French quitement, from quite (“quits”) + -ment.

unconditionally; without the imposition conditions


ĩ

aĩsi (ainsi)

ĩpossible (impossible)

The letter i with a tilde. Used to replace the sequence in or im.


esmayer

esmayer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
esmayant (gerund participle present)

(transitive) to scare; to worry; to trouble


offendre

From Old French, from Latin offendere, present active infinitive of offendō.


baailler

French: bâiller

bailler

according to Dictionnaire du moyen français, baailler and bailler are equally common


venoit

French: venait

third-person singular imperfect indicative of venir


tourneroient

French: tourneraient

third-person plural conditional of tourner


yroient

French: iraient

third-person plural conditional of aller


brefvet

French: brevet

Old French brevet, from bref (“letter”) + -et.


affier

affier (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
affiant (gerund participle present)


desployer

desployer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
desployant (gerund participle present)


mectre

mectre (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
mectant (gerund participle present)


contreroleur

English: controller

French: contrôleur

account-keeper; one who keeps a register, and account, etc.


bienfaire

bien + faire. Cf. also Latin benefacere.

le desir resolu de bienfaire

1595, Simon Goulart, Les oeuvres morales et meslees de Senecque, page 6:


Allemaigne

French: Allemagne


familleux

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familleux m (feminine singular familleuse, masculine plural familleux, feminine plural familleuses)

familleuse (feminine singular)
familleux (masculine plural)
familleuses (feminine plural)


tresbon

tresbon m (feminine singular tresbonne, masculine plural tresbons, feminine plural tresbonnes)

tresbonne (feminine singular)
tresbons (masculine plural)
tresbonnes (feminine plural)


estendard

French: étendard


renommee

French: renommée

renoun; reputation (it has positive connotations)


couvertement

& y viengne si couvertement que nulluy ne le congnoisse

1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 57:

And he came so covertly that nobody recognized him


empenser

empenser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
empensant (gerund participle present)

(transitive or reflexive, s'empenser) to think of; to think about


grievement

French: grièvement

Old French griefment, equivalent to grieve + -ment.


souspir

French: soupir


abbatre

French: abattre

Inherited from Old French abatre, from Late Latin abbattō, from Latin ad- + battō.

etymon

si le ferit si durement qu'il l'abatit a terre

1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 64:

then he hit him so forcefully that he knocked him to the ground


mot a mot

French: mot à mot


aterminer

aterminer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
aterminant (gerund participle present)

Old French aterminer, equivalent to a- + terminer.

(transitive, intransitive) to finish; to complete


a son escient

Beaux seigneurs vous scavez bien que la coustume de ceans est telle que nous devons eslire cellui a nostre escient qui le mieulx a fait au tournoiement.

1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 59:

Good sirs, you know very well that our custom is that we have to choose who, to the best of our knowledge, has performed the best in the tournament.

to the best of one's knowledge
to the best of one's knowledge

to one's knowledge; to the best of one's knowledge


derrain

head

derrain m (feminine singular derraine, masculine plural derrains, feminine plural derraines)

derraine (feminine singular)
derrains (masculine plural)
derraines (feminine plural)

last; final (with respect to location or time)


pensionnier

→ English: pensioner


apuyer

apuyer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
apuyant (gerund participle present)

French: appuyer

From Old French appuyer, from Vulgar Latin *appodiāre, a verb based on Latin podium.


deshonneur

French: déshonneur

dishonor (disgrace; shameful state or situation)


entrefaire

entrefaire (infinitive)
estre + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
entrefaisant (gerund participle present)

(reflexive, s'entrefaire) to do to one another


entredesirer

entredesirer (infinitive)
estre + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
entredesirant (gerund participle present)

(reflexive, s'entredesirer) to desire one another


entrefrapper

entrefrapper (infinitive)
estre + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
entrefrappant (gerund participle present)

(reflexive, s'entrefrapper) to hit; to strike one another


coniurer

coniurer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
coniurant (gerund participle present)

French: conjurer

to call; to summon (ask someone to come somewhere)


entredemander

entredemander (infinitive)
estre + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
entredemandant (gerund participle present)

(reflexive, s'entredemander) to ask one another


pieça

French: piéça


faciez

second-person plural present subjunctive of faire


aiourner

French: ajourner


plouvoir

French: pleuvoir


justicerie

court (body capable of making legal rulings)


huisset

Old French uisset, from uis (“door”) + -et.


descongnoistre

Old French desconoistre, from des- (“dis-; de-”) + conoistre (“know; recognize”).

prefix

(reflexive, se descongnoistre) to disguise oneself


faulconnerie

French: fauconnerie

Borrowed from Medieval Latin falconaria.


laidenger

laidenger (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
laidengeant (gerund participle present)


mescongnoistre

Old French mesconoistre, from mes- + conoistre.


deschevaucher

deschevaucher (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
deschevauchant (gerund participle present)

From Old French deschevauchier, from Vulgar Latin *discaballicāre.


disrent

French: dirent

third-person plural past historic of dire


appertement

ostez vostre heaulme de vostre teste si que ie vous voye appertement

1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 65:

take your helmet off your head so that I can see you openly


enchasser

enchasser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
enchassant (gerund participle present)


compellir

→ English: compel

14th century, borrowed from Latin compellere.

to compel; to force someone to do something


posterité

→ English: posterity

French: postérité


Norgalles

North Wales (northern part of Wales in what is now the United Kingdom)


pucellaige

→ English: pucelage

French: pucelage


desbarater

desbarater (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
desbaratant (gerund participle present)


pecheur

French: pécheur


matineulx

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matineulx m (feminine singular matineuse, masculine plural matineulx, feminine plural matineuses)

matineuse (feminine singular)
matineulx (masculine plural)
matineuses (feminine plural)

French: matineux


contregarder

contregarder (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
contregardant (gerund participle present)


plaist

French: plaît

third-person singular present indicative of plaire


cecy

French: ceci

quant ilz ouyrent cecy

1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 70:


souffisant

souffisant m (feminine singular souffisante, masculine plural souffisants, feminine plural souffisantes)

souffisante (feminine singular)
souffisants (masculine plural)
souffisantes (feminine plural)

French: suffisant


esprendre

French: éprendre

Old French esprendre, from es- + prendre.

(intransitive or reflexive, s'esprendre) to catch fire


delicatesse

French: délicatesse (see there for further descendants)

From delicat + -esse, probably modelled on Italian delicatezza.

Vegece (autrement gentil compaignon, & bien inſtruit à la guerre) veult lhomme de guerre eſtre nourry aux champs, et eſtoyent nourriz anciẽnement les enfans des Princes, aux champs, non en ceste delicateſſe des villes.

1547, Leon Ladulfi [pseudonym; Noël du Fail], “Maistre Leon Ladulfi, au lecteur salut”, in Propos rustiques, de maistre Leon Ladulfi champenois, Lyon: Par Iean de Tournes, page 9:


meshuy

mes + huy (from Latin magis and hodie respectively).


mauldit

mauldit m (feminine singular mauldite, masculine plural mauldits, feminine plural mauldites)

mauldite (feminine singular)
mauldits (masculine plural)
mauldites (feminine plural)

French: maudit


aulmosne

French: aumône


garroite

(late 14th century, very rare) Alternative form of carotte


flechir

flechir (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
fleschissant (gerund participle present)

French: fléchir


gueres

French: guère, guères


destreindre

angoisse de mort se destreingnoit

1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 75:


esvertuer

esvertuer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
esvertuant (gerund participle present)

French: évertuer

(reflexive, s'esvertuer) to try one's hardest; to give one's best effort


trestout

trestout m (masculine plural trestous, feminine singular trestoute, feminine plural trestoutes)

trestous (masculine plural)
trestoute (feminine singular)
trestoutes (feminine plural)


pourforcer

pourforcer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
pourforçant (gerund participle present)

(reflexive, se pourforcer, with a) to try; to make an effort to endeavor


desvoyable

Old French desvoiable, from desvoier + -able.

confusing; specifically tending to cause lostness or confusion about one's whereabouts; disorienting


uberté

→ English: uberty


-elette

costelette
cutlet, literally "little rib"


apatir

apatir (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
apatissant (gerund participle present)

(transitive) to obligate someone (by means of a pact) to pay a regular sum


aerer

aerer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
aerant (gerund participle present)

Learned borrowing from Latin āēr + suffix -er to make a verb.

to aerate; to ventilate (a building, etc.)


garentissement

garentissement m (plural garentissemens)

oncques par les escus ne eurent garentissement

1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 77:

they didn't have any protection from their shields

protection (from harm, from danger, etc.)


entredonner

entredonner (infinitive)
estre + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
entredonnant (gerund participle present)

(reflexive, s'entredonner) to give (to) one another


taye

French: taie

→ Middle English: tay

Inherited from Old French teie, toie, from Latin tēca, variant of thēca, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek.

cover for a duvet, a cushion, a pillow, etc.

(anatomy) the outer membrane of an organ


salvaige

the right to keep some salvaged items if properly reported to the authorities


escouiller

escouiller (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
escouillant (gerund participle present)


morfondre

Middle English: morfounden, morefounden

English: morfound

mor (“snout”) + fondre. The first part comes from Franco-Provençal mor, more (“snout”), from Vulgar Latin *murrum (“muzzle, snout”), and the second from Latin fundere.

(unusually in the past participle morfondu) to chill; to cool


escoçois

escoçois m (feminine singular escoçoise, masculine plural escoçois, feminine plural escoçoises)

escoçoise (feminine singular)
escoçois (masculine plural)
escoçoises (feminine plural)


Escoçois

Escoçois m (plural Escoçois, feminine singular Escoçoise, feminine plural Escoçoises)

Escoçois (plural)
Escoçoise (feminine singular)
Escoçoises (feminine plural)


souloir

French: souloir (obsolete)

From Old French soloir. Attested in the infinitive at least as early as 1537.

1537, Cicero (original author), Epistres familiaires traduictz de latin en francois et nouvellement imprimez link
les hommes disent souloir estre faulsement rapporté

the men say that are habitually falsely reported


empieger

empieger (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
empiegeant (gerund participle present)

French: empiéger


ioyau

French: joyau


seiourner

seiourner (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
seiournant (gerund participle present)

French: séjourner


gn̈t

Comment [ils] menerent avec eulx Marc le fils de messire Nicolas pour mener avec eulx au gn̈t kaan.

15th century, Rustichello da Pisa (original author), Mazarine Master (scribe), The Travels of Marco Polo, page 7:

How [they] took with them Marc, the son of Nicolas to take with them to the great khan.


portement

Late Old French portement, from porter + -ment.


toutesvoies

toutes (“all”) + voies (“routes; paths”), although may be due to confusion with toutesfoys.


besoingnable

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besoingnable m or f (plural besoingnables)

Old French besoignable, from besoing (“need”) + -able.


pourveant

pourveant m (feminine singular pourveante, masculine plural pourveans, feminine plural pourveantes)

pourveante (feminine singular)
pourveans (masculine plural)
pourveantes (feminine plural)


tresgrant

tresgrant m (feminine singular tresgrande, masculine plural tresgrans, feminine plural tresgrandes)

tresgrande (feminine singular)
tresgrans (masculine plural)
tresgrandes (feminine plural)


rongne

French: rogne


menestrier

French: ménétrier

Old French menestrier (first recorded attestation as menestrer), by suffix substitution with menestrel.


estrave

French: étrave

First known attestation 1573. Old French *estrave, a borrowing from Old Norse stafn. The technical nature of the word may explain why it is not attested earlier, as Old Norse had split into its daughter languages by 1573.


primogenit

primogenit m (plural primogenits, feminine singular primogenite, feminine plural primogenites)

primogenits (plural)
primogenite (feminine singular)
primogenites (feminine plural)


primogenit

primogenit m (feminine singular primogenite, masculine plural primogenits, feminine plural primogenites)

primogenite (feminine singular)
primogenits (masculine plural)
primogenites (feminine plural)


nouvelet

nouvelet m (feminine singular nouvelette, masculine plural nouvelez, feminine plural nouvelettes)

nouvelette (feminine singular)
nouvelez (masculine plural)
nouvelettes (feminine plural)


stillé

stillé m (feminine singular stillee, masculine plural stillez, feminine plural stillee)

stillee (feminine singular)
stillez (masculine plural)
stillee (feminine plural)


pousseis

1383-86, Froissart, Chroniques
Et la ot grant pousseis de lances, car ceulx qui estoient a cheval, aussi tost qu'ils furent a nous, ils misrent piet a terre et nous assaillirent fierement.

And there were great clashes of lances, for those who were on horseback, as soon as they were upon us, dismounted and assaulted us fiercely.


esprouver

esprouver (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
esprouvant (gerund participle present)

French: éprouver

Inherited from Old French esprover, from Latin probāre.

1383-86, Froissart, Chroniques
li Englés s'i esprouvoient trop vaillamment

the English proved themselves to be valiant

(reflexive or intransitive) to prove oneself, as in, to be brave, noble, etc.


espoventer

espoventer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
espoventant (gerund participle present)

French: épouvanter

Old French espoenter, with the v added back to reflect the Latin etymon pavor (“fear”).


couillette

Escoute ça, couillette. Vids-tu oncques le froc du moine de Castres?
Listen, dickhead. Do you see the gown of the monk from Castres?

(vulgar, vocative) an insult, similar to couillon

Ie le veulx (respondit frere Ian) bien voluntiers, pour l’amour de toy couillette. Car ie t’ayme du bon du foye.

Yes, I want to, (replied friar Jan), willingly, for my love of you my little testicle. For I love you from the bottom of my liver.

(vulgar, vocative) in the following example, seems to be an affectionate if vulgar nickname


esbattre

French: battre

(of an animal) to beat (wings, as in, to fly)


esguarer

esguarer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
esguarant (gerund participle present)

Sans esguarer de rien le fil de mon subiect

1575, Henri Lancelot Voisin de La Popelinière, La vraye et entière Histoire des Troubles, et Choses memorables avenues tant en France qu'en Flandres & pays circonvoisins depuis l'an 1562, page 3:

Without sidetracking at all the thread of my subject


eschieller

eschieller (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
esciellant (gerund participle present)

Old French escheler, from eschele + -er.

(usually military) to scale using a ladder


mesaisi

mesaisi m (feminine singular mesaisie, masculine plural mesaisis, feminine plural mesaisies)

mesaisie (feminine singular)
mesaisis (masculine plural)
mesaisies (feminine plural)


procreateur

procreateur m (feminine singular procreatrice, masculine plural procreateurs, feminine plural procreatrices)

procreatrice (feminine singular)
procreateurs (masculine plural)
procreatrices (feminine plural)

French: procréateur

Car Iupiter par nature, est pere procreateur et progeniteur de tout homme.

1547, Guillaume Budé, De l'institution du Prince Livre contenant plusieurs histoires, enseignements et saiges dicts des Anciens, page 84:

For Jupiter by nature, is the procreator and progenitor of every man.


estourdir

estourdir (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
estourdissant (gerund participle present)

to stun (disorientate using physical force, e.g. a blow)


pecune

Late Old French pecuine (1308), borrowed from Latin pecunia.


desister

desister (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
desistant (gerund participle present)

→ English: desist

French: désister

Borrowed from Latin desistere, present active infinitive of desistō, assimilated into the first group of verbs (regular -er ending).

1581, Guill. Roville, Promptuaire des medalles des plus renommees personnes qui ont esté depuis le commencement du monde: avec brieve description de leurs vies & faits, recueillie des bons auteurs, page 73, line 10

in order to make him desist from the war

(almost always reflexive, se desister) to stop; to desist


tartois

tartois m (feminine singular tartoise, masculine plural tartois, feminine plural tartoises)

tartoise (feminine singular)
tartois (masculine plural)
tartoises (feminine plural)

en langue tartoise

15th century (date of publication), Rustichello da Pisa (original author), Mazarine Master (scribe), The Travels of Marco Polo, page 5:


Pescheur

Capitalization of pescheur (“fisher (“fisherman”)”)


astripotent

Je venere latrialement le supernel astripotent.

1534, François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel:


tartarin

First known attestation circa 1342 in Nouveau recueil de comptes de l'argenterie des rois de France. From tartar + -in.

expensive silk cloth from the Tartar region


pourcession

procession (people following one another in an organized fashion)


contrerole

Borrowed from Medieval Latin contrarotula.


voisinal

voisinal m (feminine singular voisinale, masculine plural voisinals, feminine plural voisinales)

voisinale (feminine singular)
voisinals (masculine plural)
voisinales (feminine plural)

From voisin + -al, or possibly from Vulgar Latin *vicīnālis. Displaced in Modern French by vicinal.


peuplaison

et la dite terre, toutes montagnes, meschant pays, sans point de peuplaison.

1529, John and Raoul Parmentier, Le discours de la navigation:


formeus

formeus m (feminine singular formeuse, masculine plural formeuss, feminine plural formeuses)

formeuse (feminine singular)
formeuss (masculine plural)
formeuses (feminine plural)

French: formeux

From Old French [Term?], from Latin formosus.


formeux

formeux m (feminine singular formeuxe, masculine plural formeuxs, feminine plural formeuxes)

formeuxe (feminine singular)
formeuxs (masculine plural)
formeuxes (feminine plural)

Alternative spelling of formeus, handsome.


Filles du Roy

English: King's Daughters

French: Filles du Roi

English: Filles du Roi

English: Filles du Roy


exanimé

exanimé m (feminine singular exanimée, masculine plural exanimés, feminine plural exanimées)

exanimée (feminine singular)
exanimés (masculine plural)
exanimées (feminine plural)


vainglorieux

Ambition vainglorieuse
Enflant nostre ame vitieuse
Aux fausses vertus nous conduit.

1581, Jean-Antoine de Baïf, edited by Jean Vignes, Mimes, enseignements et proverbes, page 231:

Vainglorious ambition
Inflating our vicious soul
Leads us to the false virtues.


noirette

C'eſt vne petite noirette,
Non pas noirette, mais brunette, […]

1546, Guillaume Coquillart, Les oeuvres, nouvellement reueues et corrigees, page 182:

She is small with black hair,
Not black, but brown, […]


aisté

1549, Commentaires tres excellens de l'hystoire des plantes, Paris:


contoir

Le bras de la dicte lettre qui est plus large, la voye de volupté: & le bras plus estroit, la voye de vertuz, afin qu'en saciez un Festin pendu en l'estude & contoir de vostre bonne memoire, & vertueuse contemplation.

1549, Geoffroy Tory, L' art et la science de la vraye proportion des lettres attiques:


brenage

From Medieval Latin brenāgium, from brenna (“bran as dog food”) + -āgium. Equivalent to bren (“bran”) + -age.

A form of feudal tenure based on the payment of bran or other cereals to maintain the lord's hounds; land held under such tenure.


sceust

third-person imperfect subjunctive of sçavoir


numerateur

French: numérateur

From Medieval Latin numerator, attested from 1484.


estoupail

English: estoppel (law)


mehaignié

frm-past participle

mehaignié m (feminine singular mehaigniée, masculine plural mehaigniéz, feminine plural mehaigniées)

mehaigniée (feminine singular)
mehaigniéz (masculine plural)
mehaigniées (feminine plural)

→ French: méhaigné


ligeauté

the obligation of a vassal to his lord to be entirely faithful and loyal


shyvalere

And here on þͤ othir ſyde folowyth the moſte pytevous tale of the morte Arthure ſaunz Gwerdon · Ꝑ le ſhyvalere ẜ Thomᷓs Malleorre knyȝt

1470–1483 (date produced), Thom̃s Malleorre [i.e., Thomas Malory], “[Launcelot and Guinevere]”, in Le Morte Darthur (British Library Additional Manuscript 59678) (in Middle English), [England: s.n.], folio 449, recto, lines 18–21:

And here on the other side followeth the most piteous tale of the mort d’Arthur sans guerdon, par le chevalier Sir Thomas Malory, knight.


Guyon

English: Guyon

French: Guyon

a surname, Guyon, transferred from the given name


pastenaille

French: pastenade, patenais

→ German: Pastiney, Pastinei

→ Ottoman Turkish: پاستنای (pastinay)

From Old Occitan pastenaga (“carrot”), from Latin pastināca. Doublet of panais from Old French pasnaie.


ostacle

Je tien que Dieu nous monsterra
(Met cy) par elle aucun miracle
De fait, qui m' est encore ostacle
Et non sceu.

1371, Miracle de la fille du roy d'Hongrie:


esbranler

esbranler (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
esbranlant (gerund participle present)

(transitive) to shake, move, destabilize

(transitive) (figuratively) to destabilize (someone or something)


bombasin

desc

→ French: bombasin, bombasine, bombazine

→ English: bombazine

→ Dutch: bombazijn

From Italian bambagine, bambagia (“cotton”), from Late Latin Bambax, from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”); compare bombyx.


Dieux

From the Old French nominative singular, due to the frequent use in the vocative and in phrases of the sort “may God do this and that”.


Frasne

French: Frasne

From Latin Frasinus, from fraxinus. Attested 1263, 1280.

Frasne (a village in Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France).


braguer

braguer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
braguant (gerund participle present)

From bragues (“panties, knickers”, plural). Compare Walloon braguer (“to adorn, groom”).


crevecœur

French: crève-cœur

Dictionnaire de la langue française
Émile Littré


tremblay

French: Tremblay, tremblaye


Myennes

→ French: Myennes

Myennes (a village in the Nièvre department, France)


Nouvelle France

French: Nouvelle-France

English: New France

nouvelle + France. Literally, “New France”

(historical) Nouvelle-France: New France (a former colony of France in North America)


trouveresse

female equivalent of trouveur (finder; inventor).


possider

possider (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
possidant (gerund participle present)

→ French: posséder

From Old French porseoir, from Latin possidēre, possideō (“I possess; I own”).


maudition

French: maudition


travaillois

Ie travaillois jusqu'a mynuyt.

first/second-person singular imperfect indicative of travailler


mathematique

head

mathematique m or f (plural mathematiques)


mathematique

French: mathématique

Jacques de Voragine, La légende dorée

science mathematique
science mathematique#Middle_French

ellipsis of science mathematique: mathematics


practicien

desctree

French: praticien
→ Romanian: practician

→ English: practician


langue de cerf

head

langue de cerf f (plural langue de cerfs)

French: langue de cerf

langue + de + cerf. Mentioned in Olivier de Serres' Théâtre d'Agriculture et mesnage des champs (1600).

Asplenium scolopendrium
Asplenium scolopendrium#Translingual

Synonym of scolopendre (“hart's-tongue fern (Asplenium scolopendrium)”)

scolopendre

Dictionnaire de la langue française
Olivier de Serres
Émile Littré


ã

ẽ

Written on a letter, usually a vowel, in place of an omitted n or m.


obfusquer

From Old French offusquer, from Late Latin obfuscō, from Latin ob- + fuscō (“to darken”).


aggresseur

aggresseur m (plural aggresseurs, feminine singular aggresseuse, feminine plural aggresseuses)

aggresseurs (plural)
aggresseuse (feminine singular)
aggresseuses (feminine plural)

French: agresseur


milliesme

French: millième

Inherited from Old French millesme, from Latin mīllēsimus. By surface analysis, mille + -iesme.


-iesme

French: -ième

Inherited from Old French -esme, from Latin -ēsimus.


centiesme

French: centième

Inherited from Old French centesme, from Latin centēsimus. By surface analysis, cent + -iesme.


quantiesme

French: quantième

(interrogative) which day (of the month)


Poirot

a diminutive of the male given name Pierre, variant of Pierrot


Poirot

French: Poirot

English: Poirot

Poirot: a surname transferred from the given name


ouvé

Coordinate term: laictié m (“milt”)

Item, des brochets, le laictié vault mieulx que l’ouvé, se ce n’est quant l’en veult faire rissolles, pour ce que des œuvés l’en fait rissolles, ut patet in tabula.

1393, anonymous author, edited by Baron Jérome-Frédéric Pichon, Le Ménagier de Paris, tome II, Paris: Imprimerie de Crapelet for La Société des bibliophiles françois, published 1846, distinction ii, article iv, « Termes généraux de cuisine », page 88:


ouvé

ouvé m (feminine singular ouvée, masculine plural ouvés, feminine plural ouvées)

ouvée (feminine singular)
ouvés (masculine plural)
ouvées (feminine plural)

French: œuvé

En faiſant ceſte onction, ils y appliquẽt le ſang dudit poiſſon, & la ceruelle, & les œufs, ſ’il eſtoit ouué: iaçoit que deuant qu’appliquer cecy, & faire vſer de ceſte diſtillation, ils font dieter le patient, & le phlebotoment, ainſi qu’ils ont couſtume de faire à toute autre maladie: & parle qui en vouldra du contraire, veu que ie ſçay que toutes nations eſtrangeres en vſent plus cent fois que nous, voire ſ’ils n’ont mal qu’au bout du doigt, ou vne veſſie ſur le nez.

1575, André Thevet, La Coſmographie Vniuerſelle d’André Theuet Coſmographe du Roy, volume I, Paris: Pierre l’Huilier, book x, chapter x: « De l’Iſle de Corgve: comme les Mahometans portent les morts en terre, & de diuerſes ſortes de Poiſſons. », pages 342–343:


Robinet

French: Robinet

Robinet Testard


Testard

French: Testard

Robinet Testard


dedalus

French: dédale

After Dédale (“Daedalus”), who built the Cretan Labyrinth in Greek mythology, from Latin Daedalus, from Ancient Greek Δαίδαλος (Daídalos).


laperiau

Alternative form of lapereau (“young rabbit”)


victeur

victeur m (plural victeurs, feminine singular victrice, feminine plural victrices)

victeurs (plural)
victrice (feminine singular)
victrices (feminine plural)


peripherie

French: périphérie

→ English: periphery


bascle

Adonc fina a tant leur parlement, et pristrent la saisine du chastel, et puis ordonne rent de mettre et laissier dedens gens d’armes et garnison pour le garder, et passerent oultre en entencion de venir devant la ville et chastel de Cruvale, dont Espaignolet de Paperan, Bascles, estoit capitaine, avec lui grant foison de pillars et de robeurs.

(Can we date this quote?) [c. 1400], Jean Froissart, edited by Ainsworth, Peter, and Godfried Croenen..., Froissart's Chronicles (html), Online Froissart Project, published 2013?, MS Besançon 865, SHF edition chapter 3-53, page folio 249v:

Si tost qu’on yst hors du paÿs de Berne, on entre ou paÿs des Bascles, ouquel paÿs le roy d’Angleterre tient grant terre en l’archevesquié de Bourdiaux et en l’evesquié de Bayonne; si ques les Basclois qui se tiennent et tenoient lors du roy d’Angleterre, ... Si envoierent a Orthais quatre hommes, lesquelz estoient chargiéz depar tout le demourant du paÿs pour faire le appaisement. Ces quattre hommes de Bascle compterent a Ernauton du Puy,...Cest Arnoulton du Puy leur ayda a faire ceulx de Bascle leur traittiéz, et payerent tout comptant deux mille francs,

(Can we date this quote?) [c. 1400], Jean Froissart, edited by Ainsworth, Peter, and Godfried Croenen, Froissart's Chronicles (html), Online Froissart Project, published 2013?, MS Paris fr. 2560, SHF edition chapter 3-147, page folio 171v:

Et passerent oultre le comble de Pampelune et les montaignes de Raincevaulx, et entrerent en Bascle et cheminerent tant que ilz vindrent a Bayonne.

idem, MS Besançon 865, SHF edition chapter 3-268


basclois

si ques les Basclois qui se tiennent et tenoient lors du roy d’Angleterre, ou bien sont quatre vintgs clockes, villes a clocquiers, entendirent que le passaige seroit parmy leur paÿs, si se doubterent grandement des Franchois et de estre tout courru et ars et esseilliet;


extremite

desctree

French: extrémité f
→ Romanian: extremitate f

Etymology tree
Latin extrēmus
Latin -tās
Latin extrēmitāsbor.
Old French estremité
Middle French extremiteInherited from Old French estremité, borrowed from Latin extrēmitās, from extrēmus + -tās.