oraison
English
Noun
oraison (plural oraisons)
- Obsolete form of orison.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “oraison”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Middle French oraison, from Old French oroison et al., from Latin orātiō, orātiōnem, whence also English oration. The word, especially in the sense of "oration", may have been a very early borrowing into French in the Middle Ages as the other Romance cognates are borrowed learned terms as well, according to the Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé etymological dictionary.
Pronunciation
Noun
oraison f (plural oraisons)
References
Further reading
- “oraison”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French oroison.
Noun
oraison f (plural oraisons)
Descendants
- French: oraison
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