thème
See also: theme
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin thema, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛm/
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Noun
thème m (plural thèmes)
- theme, topic
- Synonym: sujet
- un parc à thèmes ― a theme park
- (music) subject, theme
- (linguistics) theme (what is generally being talked about, as opposed to rheme)
- Coordinate term: rhème
- (grammar) stem of (usually) a noun or verb, to which inflectional endings are attached
- (chiefly in classical studies) translation from one's mother tongue into another language
- Coordinate term: version
- le thème latin ― translation into Latin
- le thème grec ― translation into Greek
- fort en thème ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (astrology) chart
- thème astral ― astrological chart
- thème céleste ― astrological chart
Related terms
Further reading
- “thème” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “thème” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “thème”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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