censé
See also: cense
French
Etymology
Past participle of Middle French censer (verb), from Latin cēnseō.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɑ̃.se/
Audio: (file) - Homophone: sensé
Adjective
censé (feminine censée, masculine plural censés, feminine plural censées)
- supposed to, meant to [with infinitive]
- Synonym: supposé
- Il est censé être mort de maladie. ― He is supposed to have died from illness.
- Bien qu'il soit censé revenir immédiatement, on ne le revoit plus.
- Though he was meant to return immediately, he was not seen again.
Usage notes
- Not to be confused with sensé.
Derived terms
References
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “censere”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 579
Further reading
- “censé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Spanish
Verb
censé
- first-person singular preterite indicative of censar