État

See also: Etat, état, êtat, and etât

French

Alternative forms

• état
• Etat

Pronunciation

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Noun

État m (plural États)

1. state, nation
2. government
3. Alternative letter-case form of état

Usage notes

• In older French practice, capital letters did not take diacritics, so É becomes E. This was mostly done because of technical constraints. Formal orthotypography maintains the diacritics.

Derived terms

• État de droit

Further reading

• “État” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).