fleche

See also: fleché, fléché, flèche, and Flèche

English

Noun

fleche (plural fleches)

1. Alternative spelling of flèche

Verb

fleche (third-person singular simple present fleches, present participle fleching, simple past and past participle fleched)

1. Alternative spelling of flèche

Anagrams

• fleech

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French fleche.

Noun

fleche f (plural fleches)

1. arrow (projectile fired by a bow)

Descendants

• French: flèche
  • → Dutch: flits
    • → Middle Low German: flitse [16th c.]
      • → German: Flitz
  • → English: flèche

Old French

Alternative forms

• flecche, fleke

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *fleccia.

Noun

fleche oblique singular, f (oblique plural fleches, nominative singular fleche, nominative plural fleches)

1. arrow (projectile fired by a bow)

Synonyms

• saete

Descendants

• Middle French: fleche
  • French: flèche (see there for further descendants)
• Picard: flèche (Athois)
• Walloon: flèche (Forrières)

Borrowings:

• → Italy:
  • Emilian: frizza
  • Istriot: sfracia
  • Italian: freccia
    • → Sardinian: fleccia, freccia, fercia, frezza, frizza
  • Piedmontese: flecia, flascia
  • Romansch: frizza, frezza
  • Sicilian: fileccia, fleccia
    • → Maltese: vleġġa
  • Venetian: frixa, fréça, frésa
    • → Cimbrian: fritza
• → Iberia:
  • Aragonese: flecha
  • Asturian: flecha
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: frecha, flecha
    • Galician: frecha
    • Portuguese: flecha, frecha
  • Old Spanish: frecha, flecha
    • Spanish: flecha
• → Others:
  • Medieval Latin: flechia, flecha, flecca [13th c., France]
  • Middle Dutch: vlieke (reborrowing)
    • Dutch: vliek
  • Middle English: flecche

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*fliukka”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 15/2: Germanismes: Bu–F, page 146

Spanish

Verb

fleche

1. inflection of flechar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative