esprit

Borrowed from French esprit (“spirit”). Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, sprite, and spright, possibly also spree.

• IPA^(key): /ɛsˈpɹiː/

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• Rhymes: -iː

esprit (uncountable)

1. Spirit, enthusiasm.
2. A wit.
3. Liveliness, or active mind and spirit.

• bel esprit
• esprit de corps
• l'esprit de l'escalier

• “esprit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Pitres, Presti, Priest, Sprite, pierst, priest, re-tips, respit, retips, ripest, sitrep, sprite, stripe, tripes

Borrowed from French esprit.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛsprɪt]

esprit m inan

1. esprit

• “esprit”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “esprit”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Inherited from Middle French esperit, from Old French, borrowed from Latin spiritus through Ecclesiastical Latin and Christian religious texts.

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.pʁi/

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esprit m (plural esprits)

1. immaterial or incorporeal substance
2. disembodied mind
3. mind (in the wide sense)
4. mind (as principle of thought)
5. specific mind aptitude
6. high mind aptitude
7. deep intention, sense, or purpose (of a text, action, attitude...); philosophy (in figurative sense)
8. (metonymic) human being, as possessing abilities of mind
9. (archaic) volatile fluid, especially alcohol

• → Czech: esprit
• → English: esprit
• → Polish: spryt
• → Turkish: espri (“humor, joke”)

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

• pétris, pister, prîtes, tripes

esprit m (plural esprits) (Limousin)

1. misspelling of esperit