fiance

See also: fiancé

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French fiancé. The verb is from fiancer.

Noun

fiance (plural fiances)

1. Alternative spelling of fiancé

Verb

1. (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

Anagrams

• fancie

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjɑ̃s/
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Etymology 1

From Middle French fiance, from Old French fiance, from fier +‎ -ance.

Noun

fiance f (plural fiances)

1. (obsolete) faith; confidence

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

fiance

1. first-person singular present indicative of fiancer
2. third-person singular present indicative of fiancer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fiancer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of fiancer
5. second-person singular imperative of fiancer

Further reading

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

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Middle French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French < fier +‎ -ance or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fidentia.

Noun

fiance f (plural fiances)

1. faith; confidence

Synonyms

• foy

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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)

1. 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

• foi