nimphe
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French[edit]
Noun[edit]
nimphe f (plural nimphes)
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French nimphe, from Latin nympha, from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nimphe (plural nimphes)
- nymph (mythological being)
Descendants[edit]
- English: nymph
References[edit]
- “nimphe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-05.
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
nimphe oblique singular, f (oblique plural nimphes, nominative singular nimphe, nominative plural nimphes)
- nymph (minor female deity)
Descendants[edit]
- French: nymphe
- → Middle Dutch: nymphe
- Dutch: nimf
- → Middle English: nimphe, nymphe, nemphe
- English: nymph
References[edit]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (nymphe, supplement)
Categories:
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
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- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- enm:Greek mythology
- enm:Female people
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French feminine nouns