forban
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English forbannen, equivalent to for- + ban.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æn
Verb
forban (third-person singular simple present forbans, present participle forbanning, simple past and past participle forbanned)
- (transitive) To exile; banish.
- 2013, Daniel Lord Smail, The Consumption of Justice:
- Kenneth Meredith has noted that the coutumiers of northern France "usually called for the confiscation of the property of both executed criminals and persons who had been forbanned."
- 2013, Daniel Lord Smail, The Consumption of Justice:
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French fourban, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French forsban, forban (“pirate, privateer, banishment”), deverbal of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French forbenir (“to banish, to exile”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish furbannjan, *firbannjan (“to ban, banish”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *fra- + (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *bannijaną (“to request, damn, curse”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *bhā- (“to say, pronounce”). Cognate with Dutch verbannen (“to outcast, banish, exile”), German verbannen (“to banish, exile”), Norwegian forbanne (“to curse”). More at for-, ban.
Pronunciation
Noun
forban m (plural forbans)
- (archaic) pirate
- rogue, scoundrel; an unscrupulous individual capable of any wrongdoing
Synonyms
Further reading
- “forban”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Etymology
Deverbal of forbenir.
Noun
forban oblique singular, m (oblique plural forbans, nominative singular forbans, nominative plural forban)
- banishment (state of being banished)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (forban)
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