espoir
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Deverbal from espérer (“to hope”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]espoir m (plural espoirs) or (Louisiana) espoir m or f by sense (plural espoirs)
- (all senses) hope
- Synonym: espérance f
- Antonyms: désespoir m, (literary) désespérance f
- (Louisiana, masculine) boyfriend
- (Louisiana, feminine) girlfriend
- (Louisiana, masculine) fiancé, future husband
- Synonyms: fiancé m, prétend-mari m, prétendu m
- (Louisiana, feminine) fiancée, future wife
- Synonyms: fiancée f, prétende-femme f, prétendue f
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “espoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
- Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)
Anagrams
[edit]Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- espeir (Anglo-Norman)
Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]espoir oblique singular, m (oblique plural espoirs, nominative singular espoirs, nominative plural espoir)
- hope (wish; desire, usually for the future)
Descendants
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- French deverbals
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms derived from Proto-Italic
- French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *speh₁-
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French terms with homophones
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French masculine and feminine nouns by sense
- French feminine nouns
- French nouns with multiple genders
- Louisiana French
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns