provoire
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Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From earlier prevoire, from Vulgar Latin *previterum, *prebiterum, from Latin presbyterum, accusative of presbyter (cf. the synonym prestre derived from the nominative form). Compare Occitan preveire.
Noun
[edit]provoire oblique singular, m (oblique plural provoires, nominative singular provoires, nominative plural provoire)
Usage notes
[edit]According to some sources, prestre and provoire were once inflected forms of the same word. Even so, the two rarely appear in texts together.
Synonyms
[edit]- (more common) prestre