divorcé

See also: divorce

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French divorcé.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈvɔːseɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪvɔɹˈseɪ/
• Homophone: divorcée

Noun

divorcé (plural divorcés)

1. A divorced man.

   Coordinate term: divorcée

Related terms

• divorcee (“divorced person”)

Translations

divorced man

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 離婚者 / 离婚者 (líhūnzhě) (gender neutral)

• Finnish: eronnut (fi)
• French: divorcé (fr) m
• German: Geschiedener m, geschiedener Mann m
• Hebrew: גרוש \ גָּרוּשׁ (he) m (garúsh)
• Macedonian: распу́штеник m (raspúštenik)
• Polish: rozwodnik (pl) m, rozwiedziony (pl) m
• Portuguese: divorciado (pt) m
• Russian: разведённый (ru) m (razvedjónnyj)
• Spanish: divorciado (es) m

Adjective

divorcé (not comparable)

1. (rare) masculine form of divorcée (“divorced”).
   • 1959, Bulletin of the Department of Anthropology:

     [Marriage] between a divorcée woman and a divorcé man is called kaklai lalaimi.

Anagrams

• codrive

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.vɔʁ.se/

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Participle

divorcé (feminine divorcée, masculine plural divorcés, feminine plural divorcées)

1. past participle of divorcer

Further reading

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