république

See also: republique and republiqué

French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís

Proto-Italic *reis

Latin rēs

Proto-Italic *poplosder.

Old Latin poplusder.

Old Latin poplicus

Latin pūblicus

Latin pūblica

Latin rēspūblica

Latin rēpūblicālbor.

Middle French republique

French république

Inherited from Middle French republique (“republic”), a learned borrowing from Latin rēpūblicā, from rēspūblica (“republic”), from rēs + pūblica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.py.blik/

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• Homophone: républiques

Noun

république f (plural républiques)

1. republic

Derived terms

• républicain
• république bananière
• République française
• république sœur
• républiquette
• Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques

Descendants

• → Danish: republik
• → Dutch: republiek
  • Afrikaans: republiek
• → English: republic
• → German: Republik
• → Norwegian: republikk
• → Polish: republika
• → Swedish: republik
• → Yiddish: רעפּובליק (republik)

Further reading

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