fleche

See also: fleché, fléché, flèche, and Flèche

English

Noun

fleche (plural fleches)

1. Alternative spelling of flèche

Verb

fleche (third-person singular simple present fleches, present participle fleching, simple past and past participle fleched)

1. Alternative spelling of flèche

Anagrams

• fleech

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French fleche.

Noun

fleche f (plural fleches)

1. arrow (projectile fired by a bow)

Descendants

• French: flèche
  • → Dutch: flits
    • → Middle Low German: flitse [16th c.]
      • → German: Flitz
  • → English: flèche

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Old French

Alternative forms

• flecche, fleke

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *fleccia.

Noun

fleche oblique singular, f (oblique plural fleches, nominative singular fleche, nominative plural fleches)

1. arrow (projectile fired by a bow)

Synonyms

• saete

Descendants

• Middle French: fleche
  • French: flèche
    • → Dutch: flits
      • → Middle Low German: flitse [16th c.]
        • → German: Flitz
    • → English: flèche
• Picard: flèche (Athois)
• Walloon: flèche (Forrières)
• → Galician: frecha
• → Middle Dutch: vlieke (reborrowing)
  • Dutch: vliek
• → Middle English: flecche
• → Medieval Latin: flechia, flecha, flecca [13th c., France]

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Spanish

Verb

fleche

1. inflection of flechar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative