See rien in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "la",
"3": "rem"
},
"expansion": "Latin rem",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin rem, accusative of rēs.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "rien oblique singular or",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "riens",
"tags": [
"oblique",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "riens",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "riens",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ren",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"2": "riens",
"3": "riens",
"4": "riens"
},
"expansion": "rien oblique singular, f (oblique plural riens, nominative singular riens, nominative plural riens)",
"name": "fro-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Old French",
"lang_code": "fro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "33 33 33 0 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old French entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
53,
57
]
],
"english": "\"That God gives you\nKnight, joy and a perfect heart\nFrom the thing that pleases you the most",
"ref": "c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:",
"text": "\"Dex te mete,\nChevaliers, joie et cuer parfite\nDe la rien qui plus te delite !\"",
"translation": "\"That God gives you\nKnight, joy and a perfect heart\nFrom the thing that pleases you the most",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"thing; object"
],
"id": "en-rien-fro-noun-6bUlQ9Cm",
"links": [
[
"thing",
"thing"
],
[
"object",
"object"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "33 33 33 0 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old French entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"being; creature"
],
"id": "en-rien-fro-noun-GhGcxlD1",
"links": [
[
"being",
"being"
],
[
"creature",
"creature"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈri͡ɛn/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-en"
}
],
"word": "rien"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"word": "rien"
}
],
"lang": "Middle French",
"lang_code": "frm",
"word": "rien"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "la",
"3": "rem"
},
"expansion": "Latin rem",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin rem, accusative of rēs.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ren",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "pronoun"
},
"expansion": "rien",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Old French",
"lang_code": "fro",
"pos": "pron",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "9 9 9 36 36",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old French pronouns",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
58,
62
]
],
"english": "Yes, I remember it well\nSeneschal, do you know anything about it?",
"ref": "c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:",
"text": "\"Oïl, mout m'an sovient il bien.\nSeneschaus, savez vos an rien?",
"translation": "Yes, I remember it well\nSeneschal, do you know anything about it?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"thing"
],
"id": "en-rien-fro-pron-XelNaRrj",
"links": [
[
"thing",
"thing"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "9 9 9 36 36",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old French pronouns",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"nothing"
],
"id": "en-rien-fro-pron-F4XPw7xq",
"links": [
[
"nothing",
"nothing"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(used with \"ne\") nothing"
],
"raw_tags": [
"used with \"ne\""
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈri͡ɛn/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-en"
}
],
"word": "rien"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "la",
"3": "rem"
},
"expansion": "Latin rem",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin rem, accusative of rēs.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ren",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "icr",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "rien",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Old French",
"lang_code": "fro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "33 33 33 0 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old French entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"rain"
],
"id": "en-rien-fro-noun-MZtExXCk",
"links": [
[
"rain",
"rain"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈri͡ɛn/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-en"
}
],
"word": "rien"
}
{
"categories": [
"Old French entries with incorrect language header",
"Old French feminine nouns",
"Old French irregular nouns",
"Old French lemmas",
"Old French nouns",
"Old French pronouns",
"Old French terms derived from Latin",
"Old French terms inherited from Latin",
"Pages with 8 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Old French/en",
"Rhymes:Old French/en/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "la",
"3": "rem"
},
"expansion": "Latin rem",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin rem, accusative of rēs.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "rien oblique singular or",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "riens",
"tags": [
"oblique",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "riens",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "riens",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ren",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"2": "riens",
"3": "riens",
"4": "riens"
},
"expansion": "rien oblique singular, f (oblique plural riens, nominative singular riens, nominative plural riens)",
"name": "fro-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Old French",
"lang_code": "fro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Old French terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
53,
57
]
],
"english": "\"That God gives you\nKnight, joy and a perfect heart\nFrom the thing that pleases you the most",
"ref": "c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:",
"text": "\"Dex te mete,\nChevaliers, joie et cuer parfite\nDe la rien qui plus te delite !\"",
"translation": "\"That God gives you\nKnight, joy and a perfect heart\nFrom the thing that pleases you the most",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"thing; object"
],
"links": [
[
"thing",
"thing"
],
[
"object",
"object"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"being; creature"
],
"links": [
[
"being",
"being"
],
[
"creature",
"creature"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈri͡ɛn/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-en"
}
],
"word": "rien"
}
{
"categories": [
"Old French entries with incorrect language header",
"Old French feminine nouns",
"Old French irregular nouns",
"Old French lemmas",
"Old French nouns",
"Old French pronouns",
"Old French terms derived from Latin",
"Old French terms inherited from Latin",
"Pages with 8 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Old French/en",
"Rhymes:Old French/en/1 syllable"
],
"descendants": [
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"word": "rien"
}
],
"lang": "Middle French",
"lang_code": "frm",
"word": "rien"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "la",
"3": "rem"
},
"expansion": "Latin rem",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin rem, accusative of rēs.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ren",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "pronoun"
},
"expansion": "rien",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Old French",
"lang_code": "fro",
"pos": "pron",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Old French terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
58,
62
]
],
"english": "Yes, I remember it well\nSeneschal, do you know anything about it?",
"ref": "c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:",
"text": "\"Oïl, mout m'an sovient il bien.\nSeneschaus, savez vos an rien?",
"translation": "Yes, I remember it well\nSeneschal, do you know anything about it?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"thing"
],
"links": [
[
"thing",
"thing"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"nothing"
],
"links": [
[
"nothing",
"nothing"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(used with \"ne\") nothing"
],
"raw_tags": [
"used with \"ne\""
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈri͡ɛn/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-en"
}
],
"word": "rien"
}
{
"categories": [
"Old French entries with incorrect language header",
"Old French feminine nouns",
"Old French irregular nouns",
"Old French lemmas",
"Old French nouns",
"Old French pronouns",
"Old French terms derived from Latin",
"Old French terms inherited from Latin",
"Pages with 8 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Old French/en",
"Rhymes:Old French/en/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "la",
"3": "rem"
},
"expansion": "Latin rem",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin rem, accusative of rēs.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ren",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "icr",
"2": "noun"
},
"expansion": "rien",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Old French",
"lang_code": "fro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"rain"
],
"links": [
[
"rain",
"rain"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈri͡ɛn/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-en"
}
],
"word": "rien"
}
Download raw JSONL data for rien meaning in Old French (4.3kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'rien oblique singular or', originally 'rien oblique singular or f'",
"path": [
"rien"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "rien",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'rien oblique singular or', originally 'rien oblique singular or f'",
"path": [
"rien"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "rien",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1147",
"msg": "suspicious related form tags ['feminine', 'canonical']: 'rien oblique singular or' in 'rien oblique singular, f (oblique plural riens, nominative singular riens, nominative plural riens)'",
"path": [
"rien"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "rien",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Old French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.