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In French, it means "beginning." The English meaning of the word exists only when in the plural form: [faire] ses débuts [sur scène] (to make one's débuts on the stage). The English meaning and usage also extends to sports to denote a player who is making their first appearance for a team or at an event. décolletage a low-cut neckline ...
The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
A salut d'amor [a] (Occitan: [saˈlyd daˈmuɾ], Catalan: [səˈlud dəˈmoɾ, saˈlud daˈmoɾ]; "love letter", lit. "greeting of love") or (e)pistola ("epistle") was an Occitan lyric poem of the troubadours, written as a letter from one lover to another in the tradition of courtly love.
Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]
Portrait of Victor Cousin by Gustave Le Gray (1855-1860). In 1843, Victor Cousin research led him to the Bibliothèque royale, [Note 1] where he discovered what he believed to be the collection of the abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, [4] [5] [Note 2] an in-quarto manuscript collection dated from the seventeenth century, [Note 3] the contents of which read "Discours sur les passions de l'amour ...
Courtly love (Occitan: fin'amor; French: amour courtois [amuʁ kuʁtwa]) was a medieval European literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry. Medieval literature is filled with examples of knights setting out on adventures and performing various deeds or services for ladies because of their "courtly love".
Frespañol or frespagnol (also known as frañol or fragnol) is a portmanteau of the words français (or francés in Spanish) and español, which mean French and Spanish mixed together, usually in informal settings. This example of code-switching is a mixture between French and Spanish, almost always in speech, but may be used in writing ...
The French terms amourettes (from amour, ' love '), animelles or frivolités, [6] the Italian granelli ' granules ', and the Spanish and Latin American criadillas ' little maids ' began as euphemisms, but have become standard culinary names. [7] [8]