soverain
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Middle English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
soverain
- Alternative form of sovereyn
Noun[edit]
soverain
- Alternative form of sovereyn
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably from Vulgar Latin root *superānus, from Latin super.
Adjective[edit]
soverain m (oblique and nominative feminine singular soveraine)
- sovereign
- c. 1180,, Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval ou le conte du Graal:
- que par Deu, le soverain pere,
cui ge voldroie m'ame randre,- That by God, the sovereign father
to whom I wish to give my soul
- That by God, the sovereign father