trahison
English
Noun
trahison (uncountable)
- (rare) Treason.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2010, page 270:
- That this trahison would take a partly “multicultural” form was also something that was slowly ceasing to surprise me.
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French traïson, from trair, or from Latin traditiōnem. Equivalent to trahir + -on. Doublet of tradition.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁa.i.zɔ̃/
Audio (Nancy, France) (file) Audio (Lausanne, Switzerland) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔ̃
- Homophone: trahisons
- Hyphenation: tra‧hi‧son
Derived terms
Further reading
- “trahison”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
From Old French traïson, from trair, or from Latin trāditiō, trāditiōnem.
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