État

• état (generally proscribed)
• Etat

• IPA^(key): /e.ta/

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État m (plural États)

1. state, nation
2. government

• In older French practice, capital letters did not take diacritics, so É becomes E. This was mostly done because of technical constraints. Formal orthotypography maintains the diacritics.

• “État”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.