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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). [35] louche
The aedes was the dwelling place of a god. [5] It was thus a structure that housed the deity's image, distinguished from the templum or sacred district. [6] Aedes is one of several Latin words that can be translated as "shrine" or "temple"; see also delubrum and fanum. For instance, the Temple of Vesta, as it is called in English, was in Latin ...
Pages in category "French slang" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Article 15 (idiom) G.
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 ...
This slang is used as a parallel to the "like" word used by some American slang; the French word for "like", comme, may also be used. [example needed] These words appear often in the same sentence as the word tsé (tu sais = you know) as a form of slipped words within spoken structure.
Quebec French profanities, [1] known as sacres (singular: sacre; from the verb sacrer, "to consecrate"), are words and expressions related to Catholicism and its liturgy that are used as strong profanities in Quebec French (the main variety of Canadian French), Acadian French (spoken in Maritime Provinces, east of Quebec, a portion of Aroostook ...
That Masoretic reading or pronunciation is known as the qere (Aramaic קרי "to be read"), while the pre-Masoretic consonantal spelling is known as the ketiv (Aramaic כתיב "(what is) written"). The basic consonantal text written in the Hebrew alphabet was rarely altered; but sometimes the Masoretes noted a different reading of a word than ...
The Pentateuch is the first part of the Bible, consisting of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. It is also known as the Torah. Pentateuch may also refer to: Ashburnham Pentateuch, late 6th- or early 7th-century Latin illuminated manuscript of the Pentateuch; Chumash, printed Torah, as opposed to a Torah scroll