complainte
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio: (file)
Noun[edit]
complainte f (plural complaintes)
Further reading[edit]
- “complainte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- complente
- compleinte
- compleynte (Anglo-Norman)
Noun[edit]
complainte oblique singular, f (oblique plural complaintes, nominative singular complainte, nominative plural complaintes)
- complaint; lament
- Ci encoumence la complainte de Monseigneur Joffroi de Sergines - title of a poem by Rutebeuf
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- English: complaint
References[edit]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (complainte)