escarmouche
See also: escarmouché
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French escarmouche
Noun
escarmouche (plural escarmouches)
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French escarmuche, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French escharmuche (“skirmish”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Italian scaramuccia (“skirmish”), from Lombardic *skirmjan or Frankish *skirmijan, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *skirmijaną (“to shelter”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognate with Old High German skirmen, scirmen (“to shield, defend, protect”), skirm (“shade, protection”). More at skirmish, screen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ/
- Homophones: escarmouchent, escarmouches
Noun
escarmouche f (plural escarmouches)
Verb
escarmouche
- first-person singular present indicative of escarmoucher
- third-person singular present indicative of escarmoucher
- first-person singular present subjunctive of escarmoucher
- third-person singular present subjunctive of escarmoucher
- second-person singular imperative of escarmoucher
Derived terms
Further reading
- “escarmouche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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