promesse
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin prōmissa (“promise”), from Latin prōmissum (“promise”), from promittō (“to send forth; to promise”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
promesse f (plural promesses)
- promise (all meanings)
- manquer à sa promesse ― to break one's promise (quite formal)
- Une promesse partiellement tenue est une promesse entièrement trahie.
- A partially-kept promise is a fully-broken one.
- (literally, “a fully broken promise”)
- 2013, Zaz, Je rentre:
- Je fais la promesse de ne plus croire en ce qui me ment / Ne plus me nier dans ma souffrance
- I promise to stop believing in things that deceive me / To no longer deny myself in my suffering
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “promesse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
promesse f pl
Etymology 2[edit]
Participle[edit]
promesse f pl
Anagrams[edit]
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin prōmissa (“promise”), from Latin prōmissum (“promise”), from promittō (“I send forth; I promise”).
Noun[edit]
promesse oblique singular, f (oblique plural promesses, nominative singular promesse, nominative plural promesses)
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