doute

• IPA^(key): /dut/

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• Rhymes: -ut

Deverbal from douter.

doute m (plural doutes)

1. doubt

   Il n'y avait pas le moindre doute sur l'identité de l'envahisseur.

   There wasn't the slightest doubt about the identity of the invader.

• doûte, doubte (all obsolete)

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

doute

1. inflection of douter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

   Je doute que ce qu'il dit soit vrai. ― I doubt what he says is true.

Borrowed from Old French doute.

doute (plural doutes)

1. doubt

• douten

• English: doubt
• → Welsh: dowt

• dobte, dote, doubte, dubte, dute

Back-formation from douter.

doute oblique singular, f (oblique plural doutes, nominative singular doute, nominative plural doutes)

1. doubt

• French: doute