religieux

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French religieux. Doublet of religious.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹəlɪʒiˈɜː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹəˌlɪʒiˈu/, /ɹəˌliʒiˈu/

Noun

religieux (plural religieux)

1. A man bound by monastic vows; a monk.

Related terms

• religieuse

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “religieux”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French religieus, from Latin religiōsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.li.ʒjø/

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Adjective

religieux (feminine religieuse, masculine plural religieux, feminine plural religieuses)

1. religious

Derived terms

• alétho-religieux
• aléthoreligieux
• anti-religieux
• antireligieux
• areligieux
• civil-religieux
• crypto-religieux
• cryptoreligieux
• éthico-religieux”
• éthicoreligieux”
• ethno-religieux
• ethnoreligieux
• infra-religieux
• infrareligieux
• interreligieux
• intra-religieux
• intrareligieux
• irréligieux
• mante religieuse
• mariage religieux
• mono-religieux
• monoreligieux
• multi-religieux
• multireligieux
• musico-religieux
• musicoreligieux
• néo-religieux
• néoreligieux
• non-religieux
• nonreligieux
• paléo-religieux
• paléoreligieux
• para-religieux
• parareligieux
• politico-religieux
• politicoreligieux
• pro-religieux
• proreligieux
• pseudo-religieux
• pseudoreligieux
• quasi religieux
• quasi-religieux
• quasireligieux
• religieusement
• semi-religieux
• semireligieux
• super-religieux
• superreligieux
• suprareligieux
• suprareligieux
• ultra-religieux
• ultrareligieux
• uni-religieux
• unireligieux

 

Related terms

• religion
• religiosité

Descendants

• → Danish: religiøs
• → German: religiös
• → Norwegian Bokmål: religiøs
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: religiøs
• → Romanian: religios
• → Swedish: religiös

Noun

religieux m (plural religieux, feminine religieuse)

1. a religious person (man)
2. (Catholicism) a person (man) who is a member of a religious institute, or society, in which the member takes a public vow and lives a fraternal life in common; friar; monk

Derived terms

• ex-religieux
• nonreligieux
• non-religieux
• non religieux

Descendants

• → English: religieux

Further reading

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