maîtresse
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From maître (“master”) + -esse (“-ess”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /mɛ.tʁɛs/ ~ /me.tʁɛs/
- Rhymes: -ɛs
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Noun
[edit]maîtresse f (plural maîtresses, masculine maître)
- mistress
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Il admirait l'exaltation de son âme et les dentelles de sa jupe. D'ailleurs, n'était-ce pas une femme du monde, et une femme mariée! une vraie maîtresse enfin?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- female teacher (in a primary school)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “maîtresse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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[edit]Categories:
- French terms suffixed with -esse (female)
- French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *meh₂- (good)
- French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *méǵh₂s
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:French/ɛs
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French terms with quotations
- French terms suffixed with -esse (wife)