traytouresse
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- thrayteresse, traiteresse, traitores, traitouresse, traitresse, tratoures, trayteres, trayteresse, traytoresse, traytouras, traytoures, traytures, treyteresse
Etymology
[edit]From Middle French traitresse, Anglo-Norman traiteresse, treiteresce; equivalent to traytour + -esse.
Noun
[edit]traytouresse
- traitoress: female traitor
- a1500(?a1450), GRom.(Hrl 7333) 248:
- She was my wyf, & I hir lorde, and she helde this knyʒt in a-vowtrye vndir me, & falslye she caste my dethe..þe traytoure and þe traytouresse.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1532(?a1400), RRose (Thynne) 7389:
- That false traytouresse vntrewe [Dame Abstinence] Was lyke that salowe horse..That signifyeth to folke beshrewed That ben al ful of trecherye And pale through hypocrisye.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
[edit]- English: traitoress, traitress
References
[edit]- “traitǒuresse, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Categories:
- Middle English terms borrowed from Middle French
- Middle English terms derived from Middle French
- Middle English terms borrowed from Anglo-Norman
- Middle English terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- Middle English terms suffixed with -esse
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Middle English terms with quotations