entreprise
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
entreprise (plural entreprises)
- Archaic form of enterprise.
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Feminine past participle of entreprendre (undertake).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
entreprise f (plural entreprises)
- company, business
- enterprise, project
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.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 scarcely did he see himself on the road when a terrible thought assaulted him, and such that little was missing to make him abandon the enterprise he had started.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Descendants[edit]
- → Polish: antrepryza
- → Polish: przedsiębiorstwo, przedsiębierstwo (calque)
- → Kashubian: przedsãbiorstwò
Further reading[edit]
- “entreprise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French[edit]
Noun[edit]
entreprise f (plural entreprises)
- Alternative form of entreprinse
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