affiche

See also: Affiche and affiché

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Old French a-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ-der.

Proto-Italic *feigʷō

Latin fīvō

Latin fīgō

Latin -ic-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -icō

Vulgar Latin *fīgicāre

Old French fichier

Old French afichier

Middle French

French afficherdeverb.

French affichebor.

English affiche

Borrowed from French affiche.

Noun

affiche (plural affiches)

1. A written or printed notice to be posted, as on a wall; a poster; a placard.

Verb

affiche (third-person singular simple present affiches, present participle affiching, simple past and past participle affiched)

1. To fix, fasten; to fix a poster or placard to a wall.
2. To parade, to advertise, publicise; to display, show.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 301:

     The return of the Duc de Mercœur added, if possible, to the gaiety of Compiegne; and the Duchesse gave a fête in its honour. Everything then was expressed by a fête; saints were worshipped, mistresses flattered, ministers courted, victories celebrated, sentiments affiched—and all by a fête.

Anagrams

• chaffie

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French affiche, from Latin affīxus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑˈfi.ʃə/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: af‧fi‧che

Noun

affiche f or n (plural affiches, no diminutive)

1. a placard, a poster containing an announcement or promotional information hung in a public space

   Synonym: aanplakbiljet

Related terms

• afficheren

French

Etymology

Deverbal from afficher (“to put up, display”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.fiʃ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

affiche f (plural affiches)

1. poster
2. placard
3. sign

Derived terms

• à l'affiche
• tête d'affiche

Descendants

• → Albanian: afishe
• → Arabic: أَفِيش (ʔafīš)
• → Belarusian: афі́ша (afíša)
• → Bulgarian: афи́ш (afíš)
• → Dutch: affiche
• → English: affiche
• → Esperanto: afiŝo
• → German: Affiche
• → Greek: αφίσα (afísa)
• → Ladino: afish
• → Luxembourgish: Affiche
• → Macedonian: афи́ш (afíš), афи́ша (afíša)
• → Polish: afisz
• → Romanian: afiș, afișa
• → Russian: афи́ша (afíša)
  • → Crimean Tatar: afişa
  • → Georgian: აფიშა (apiša)
  • → Tatar: афиша (afişa)
• → Spanish: afiche
• → Swedish: affisch
• → Turkish: afiş
• → Ukrainian: афі́ша (afíša)
• → Vietnamese: áp phích

Verb

affiche

1. inflection of afficher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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