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In colloquial French, un apéritif is usually shortened to un apéro. appellation contrôlée supervised use of a name. For the conventional use of the term, see Appellation d'origine contrôlée. appetence 1. A natural craving or desire 2. An attraction or affinity; from the French "appétence", derived from "appétit" (appetite).
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Based on this collection the DEAF nomenclature (macrostructure) counts roughly 85′000 entries grouped by word families in order to emphasise their etymological relationship. The lemmatised form of the headword is provided by the immediate Old French descendant of the etymon. Old French being particularly well attested the DEAF taps into a ...
Generally, words coming from French often retain a higher register than words of Old English origin, and they are considered by some to be more posh, elaborate, sophisticated, or pretentious. However, there are exceptions: weep , groom and stone (from Old English) occupy a slightly higher register than cry , brush and rock (from French).
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The Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (French pronunciation: [diksjɔnɛːʁ də lakademi fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is the official dictionary of the French language. The Académie française is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language, although its recommendations carry no legal power. Sometimes ...
Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help ... Pages in category "Lists of French words of foreign origin" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
If a word that has been used in English for almost 400 years(and isn't even used in modern French in its English spelling) is going to be in the list, we're going to have to add thousands more. English has been absorbing French words since 1066, it's ridiculous to attempt to list all of them.