fiance
See also: fiancé
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French fiancé. The verb is from fiancer.
Noun
fiance (plural fiances)
- Alternative spelling of fiancé
Verb
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- (obsolete) To betroth; to affiance.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Harmar to this entry?)
- 1993 Cindy Holbrook, A Daring Deception, page 91
- he should become so lusty over a lady of such questionable motives? He was fianced, after all. Perhaps that was it. Since his engagement, he had abstained from any liaisons, feeling it was only proper in a man soon to be married
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French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle French fiance, from Old French fiance, from fier + -ance.
Noun
fiance f (plural fiances)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
fiance
- first-person singular present indicative of fiancer
- third-person singular present indicative of fiancer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of fiancer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of fiancer
- second-person singular imperative of fiancer
Further reading
- “fiance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French < fier + -ance or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fidentia.
Noun
fiance f (plural fiances)
Synonyms
Old French
Alternative forms
- fïance (occasional scholarly form)
Etymology
From the verb fier + -ance or from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fidentia.
Noun
fiance oblique singular, f (oblique plural fiances, nominative singular fiance, nominative plural fiances)
- faith; confidence
- circa 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland:
- En tels vassals deit hom aveir fiance !
- In such knights a man must have confidence!
Synonyms
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