charité
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French charité, carité, borrowing from or francization of Latin cāritātem (“love, regard”), from cārus (“dear”) (whence French cher), from Proto-Italic *kāros (“dear”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂-.[1] Doublet of cherté.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃa.ʁi.te/
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Derived terms
References
- (Watkins, 1969 et al.)
Further reading
- “charité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Alternative forms
- caritet (early Old French)
- carité, charitei
Noun
charité oblique singular, f (oblique plural charitez, nominative singular charité, nominative plural charitez)
- generosity; sense of charity
- c. 1250, Rutebeuf, Ci encoumence la chanson de Puille:
- Car Dieux est plains de charitei
- For God is full of charity
- charitable institution
Further reading
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (charité)
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