fleche

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See also: fleché, fléché, flèche, and Flèche

English[edit]

Noun[edit]

fleche (plural fleches)

Alternative spelling of flèche

Verb[edit]

fleche (third-person singular simple present fleches, present participle fleching, simple past and past participle fleched)

Alternative spelling of flèche

Anagrams[edit]

fleech

Middle French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French fleche.

Noun[edit]

fleche f (plural fleches)

arrow (projectile fired by a bow)

Descendants[edit]

French: flèche
- → Dutch: flits
  - → Middle Low German: flitse [16th c.]
    - → German: Flitz
- → English: flèche

Old French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

flecche, fleke

Etymology[edit]

From Vulgar Latin *fleccia.

Noun[edit]

fleche oblique singular, f (oblique plural fleches, nominative singular fleche, nominative plural fleches)

arrow (projectile fired by a bow)

Synonyms[edit]

saete

Descendants[edit]

Middle French: fleche
- French: flèche (see there for further descendants)
Picard: flèche (Athois)
Walloon: flèche (Forrières)

Borrowings:

→ Italy:
- Emilian: frizza
- Istriot: sfracia
- Italian: freccia
  - → Sardinian: fleccia, freccia, fercia, frezza, frizza^[1]
- Piedmontese: flecia, flascia
- Romansch: frizza, frezza
- Sicilian: fileccia, fleccia
  - → Maltese: vleġġa
- Venetian: frixa, fréça, frésa
  - → Cimbrian: fritza
→ Iberia:
- Aragonese: flecha
- Asturian: flecha
- Old Galician-Portuguese: frecha, flecha
  - Galician: frecha
  - Portuguese: flecha, frecha
- Old Spanish: frecha, flecha
  - Spanish: flecha
→ Others:
- Medieval Latin: flechia, flecha, flecca [13th c., France]
- Middle Dutch: vlieke (reborrowing^[2])
  - Dutch: vliek
- Middle English: flecche

References[edit]

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*fliukka”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 15/2: Germanismes: Bu–F, page 146

^ Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “frèčča”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
^ Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “vlieke”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page vlieke

Spanish[edit]

Verb[edit]

fleche

inflection of flechar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative

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