lointain
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French loingtien, from Vulgar Latin *longitānus, from Latin longē. Compare Italian lontano.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lwɛ̃.tɛ̃/
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Adjective
lointain (feminine lointaine, masculine plural lointains, feminine plural lointaines)
- (of a place, usually literary) distant, remote, far-off
- (figuratively) distant
- 2015, Fréro Delavega, Ton visage:
- Que n’ai-je? Une planche de salut, loin du métro, de son raffut. Les yeux rivés sur le rivage oublier ton lointain visage.
- What do I not have? A lifeline, far from the metro and all that racket. My eyes glued to the shore to forget your distant face.
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Further reading
- “lointain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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