foule
English
Adjective
foule (comparative more foule, superlative most foule)
- Obsolete form of foul.
- 1590 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto I:
- The Patron of true Holinesse
foule Errour doth defeate;
Hypocrisie him to entrappe
doth to his home entreate.
- 1590 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto I:
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French foule (“group of men, people collectively”), alteration (due to (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French foule (“act of treading”)) of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French foulc (“people, multitude, crowd, troop”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *folc, *fulc (“crowd, multitude, people”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *fulką (“collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors”), perhaps from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Cognate with Old High German folc (“people collectively, nation”), Old English folc (“common people, troop, multitude”). More at folk.
Noun
foule f (plural foules)
Etymology 2
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French foule (“the act of milling clothes or hats”) and fouler (“to trample, mill, fordo, mistreat”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French foler (“to crush, act wickedly”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fullō (“I trample, I full”). More at full.
Noun
foule f (plural foules)
Verb
foule
- first-person singular present indicative of fouler
- third-person singular present indicative of fouler
- first-person singular present subjunctive of fouler
- third-person singular present subjunctive of fouler
- second-person singular imperative of fouler
Anagrams
Further reading
- “foule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Verb
foule
- (deprecated template usage) First-person singular present of foulen.
- (deprecated template usage) First-person singular subjunctive I of foulen.
- (deprecated template usage) Third-person singular subjunctive I of foulen.
- (deprecated template usage) Imperative singular of foulen.
Norman
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French foulc (“people, multitude, crowd, troop”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *folc, *fulc (“crowd, multitude, people”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *fulką (“collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors”), perhaps from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *pelə- (“to fill”).
Noun
foule f (plural foules)
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