confédération

See also: confederation and Confederation

French

Alternative forms

confœderation (obsolete)
confœdération (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French confederacion, borrowed from Late Latin cōnfœderātiōnem (“covenant, agreement”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fe.de.ʁa.sjɔ̃/
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Homophone: confédérations
Hyphenation: con‧fé‧dé‧ra‧tion

Noun

confédération f (plural confédérations)

an alliance, confederation
Synonym: fédération

Descendants

→ Dutch: confederatie
→ Polish: konfederacja
→ Romanian: confederație
→ Turkish: konfederasyon

Further reading

“confédération”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

cofonderaient

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