trenche

Old French

Etymology

From the verb trenchier (“to cut”).

Noun

trenche oblique singular, f (oblique plural trenches, nominative singular trenche, nominative plural trenches)

1. trench (manmade ditch)

Verb

trenche

1. first-person singular present indicative of trenchier
2. third-person singular present indicative of trenchier
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of trenchier
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of trenchier
5. second-person singular imperative of trenchier

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (tranche)
• trenche on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub