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)

1. (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."

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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

• IPA^(key): /fɔʁ.bɑ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

forban m (plural forbans)

1. (archaic) pirate
2. rogue, scoundrel; an unscrupulous individual capable of any wrongdoing

Synonyms

• bandit
• corsaire
• crapule
• flibustier
• gredin
• pirate

Further reading

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

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Old French

Etymology

Deverbal of forbenir.

Noun

forban oblique singular, m (oblique plural forbans, nominative singular forbans, nominative plural forban)

1. banishment (state of being banished)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (forban)