-eté

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See also ete, été, and -ete

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French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

See -té. The form -eté is caused by false division of stem and suffix in cases like âpreté (which belongs to âpre): âpre + -té > âpr + eté.[1]

Suffix [edit]

-eté

  1. variant of -té, for example: propre > propreté.

References [edit]

  1. ^ 2009, Jacqueline Picoche; Jean-Claude Rolland, “-té”, in Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert: