identité

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin identitās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.dɑ̃.ti.te/

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Noun

identité f (plural identités)

1. identity

   contrôle d'identité ― identity check

   carte d'identité ― identity card

   pièce d'identité ― identity document

2. (mathematics) identity (equation which always holds true regardless of the choice of input variables)

   identité trigonométrique ― trigonometric identity

   identité remarquable ― polynomial identity

Derived terms

• identitaire

Related terms

• identifier
• identique
  • identiquement

Further reading

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