propreté

French

Etymology

From propre +‎ -eté. Compare propriété.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.pʁə.te/

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Noun

propreté f (plural propretés)

1. cleanliness; cleanness

Further reading

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

Old French

Alternative forms

• proprieté

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin proprietas, proprietatem.

Noun

propreté oblique singular, f (oblique plural propretez, nominative singular propreté, nominative plural propretez) (often Anglo-Norman)

1. ownership (the right to own, to possess)
2. property (something that one owns)

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: propreté
  • → Middle English: propertee, properte, propirte, proprete
    • English: property
• Middle French: proprieté
  • → Middle English: propriete (“ownership”)
    • English: propriety
  • French: propriété

References

• propreté on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub