confédération

See also: confederation and Confederation

French

Alternative forms

• confœderation (obsolete)
• confœdération (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French confederacion, borrowed from Late Latin cōnfœderātiōnem (“covenant, agreement”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fe.de.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

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• Homophone: confédérations
• Hyphenation: con‧fé‧dé‧ra‧tion

Noun

confédération f (plural confédérations)

1. an alliance, confederation

   Synonym: fédération

Descendants

• → Dutch: confederatie
• → Polish: konfederacja
• → Romanian: confederație
• → Turkish: konfederasyon

Further reading

• “confédération”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• cofonderaient