confédération
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See also: confederation and Confederation
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French confederacion, borrowed from Late Latin cōnfœderātiōnem (“covenant, agreement”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.fe.de.ʁa.sjɔ̃/
Audio: (file) - Homophone: confédérations
- Hyphenation: con‧fé‧dé‧ra‧tion
Noun
[edit]confédération f (plural confédérations)
- an alliance, confederation
- Synonym: fédération
Descendants
[edit]- → Dutch: confederatie
- → Polish: konfederacja
- → Romanian: confederație
- → Turkish: konfederasyon
Further reading
[edit]- “confédération”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.