extrémité

See also: extremité

French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin extrēmus

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts

Proto-Italic *-tāts

Latin -tās

Latin extrēmitāsbor.

Old French estremité

Middle French extremite

French extrémité

Inherited from Middle French extremite f, inherited from Old French estremité f, borrowed from Latin extrēmitātem f.

By surface analysis, extrême +‎ -ité.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.stʁe.mi.te/

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Noun

extrémité f (plural extrémités)

2. extremity
3. tip; end; top (furthermost or highest part)

   Synonym: terminaison f

4. extreme

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Descendants

• → Romanian: extremitate f

Further reading

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