confédération
See also: confederation and Confederation
French
Alternative forms
- confœderation (obsolete)
- confœdération (obsolete)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French confederacion, borrowed from Late Latin cōnfœderātiōnem (“covenant, agreement”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.fe.de.ʁa.sjɔ̃/
Audio: (file) - Homophone: confédérations
- Hyphenation: con‧fé‧dé‧ra‧tion
Noun
confédération f (plural confédérations)
- an alliance, confederation
- Synonym: fédération
Descendants
- → Dutch: confederatie
- → Polish: konfederacja
- → Romanian: confederație
- → Turkish: konfederasyon
Further reading
- “confédération”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.