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a close relationship or connection; an affair. The French meaning is broader; liaison also means "bond"' such as in une liaison chimique (a chemical bond) lingerie a type of female underwear. littérateur an intellectual (can be pejorative in French, meaning someone who writes a lot but does not have a particular skill). [36] louche
The following list details words, affixes and phrases that contain Germanic etymons. Words where only an affix is Germanic (e.g. méfait, bouillard, carnavalesque) are excluded, as are words borrowed from a Germanic language where the origin is other than Germanic (for instance, cabaret is from Dutch, but the Dutch word is ultimately from Latin/Greek, so it is omitted).
Catholicon - purported first French dictionary: 1499 Thresor de la langue françoyse tant ancienne que moderne : 1606 Dictionnaire de l'Académie française: 1694 to present Littré: 1877 Grand Dictionnaire Encyclopédique Larousse: 1982-1985 Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle: 1866-1890 Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes
Vera (Cyrillic: Вера: Véra, "faith") is a female given name of Slavic origin. In Slavic languages, Vera means faith. [1] The name Vera has been used in the English speaking world since the 19th century and was popular in the early 20th century. [2] In Turkish Vera means piety. [3] Gender: Feminine [4]
It excludes combinations of words of French origin with words whose origin is a language other than French — e.g., ice cream, sunray, jellyfish, killjoy, lifeguard, and passageway— and English-made combinations of words of French origin — e.g., grapefruit (grape + fruit), layperson (lay + person), mailorder, magpie, marketplace, surrender ...
In Breton, meanwhile, the word Gall means "French", [3] [4] and France is Bro C'hall [5] through Breton initial mutation; the second most common family name in Brittany is Le Gall, which is thought to indicate descendants of the inhabitants of Armorica from before the Bretons came from Britain, literally meaning "the Gaul". [6] The word can be ...
Beyonce Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Beyoncé: proper noun. American singer of R&B and pop. That entry will soon be added to the French Le Petit Larousse dictionary along ...
French statesman Charles de Gaulle's surname may not be a traditional French name with a toponymic particule, but a Flemish Dutch name that evolved from a form of De Walle meaning "the wall". In the case of nobility, titles are mostly of the form [title] [ particle ] [name of the land]: for instance, Louis, duc d'Orléans ("Louis, duke of ...