entreprise

English

Noun

entreprise (plural entreprises)

1. Archaic form of enterprise.

Anagrams

• Enterprise, enterprise

French

Etymology

Feminine past participle of entreprendre (“undertake”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tʁə.pʁiz/

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Noun

entreprise f (plural entreprises)

1. company, business
2. enterprise, project
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter II:

     Mais à peine se vit-il en chemin qu’une pensée terrible l’assaillit, et telle, que peu s’en fallut qu’elle ne lui fît abandonner l’entreprise commencée.

     But he had scarcely set off when a terrible thought assailed him, so terrible that it very nearly made him abandon the enterprise he had started.

Synonyms

• société

Related terms

• entrepreneur

Descendants

• → Polish: antrepryza
• → Polish: przedsiębiorstwo, przedsiębierstwo (obsolete) (calque)
  • → Kashubian: przedsãbiorstwò

Further reading

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

Middle French

Noun

entreprise f (plural entreprises)

1. alternative form of entreprinse