fiance

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fiˈɒ̃seɪ/, /fiˈɒnseɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fiˈɑnseɪ/, /ˌfiɑnˈseɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒnseɪ

fiance (plural fiances)

1. Alternative spelling of fiancé.

From Middle English fyancen, fyauncen, from Middle French fiancer.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaɪ.əns/

fiance (third-person singular simple present fiances, present participle fiancing, simple past and past participle fianced)

1. (obsolete) To betroth; to affiance.
   • 1569, Thomas Stocker, A righte noble and pleasant history of the successors of Alexander surnamed the Great:

     he […] therfore fianced he his daughter

   • 1993, Cindy Holbrook, A Daring Deception, page 91‎^[1]:

     he should become so lusty over a lady of such questionable motives? He was fianced, after all. Perhaps that was it. Since his engagement, he had abstained from any liaisons, feeling it was only proper in a man soon to be married

• fancie

• IPA^(key): /fjɑ̃s/
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Inherited from Middle French fiance, from Old French fiance, from fier +‎ -ance.

fiance f (plural fiances)

1. (obsolete) faith; confidence

• fiancer

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fiance

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

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

From Old French < fier +‎ -ance or Latin fidentia.

fiance f (plural fiances)

1. faith; confidence

• foy

• fïance (occasional scholarly form)

From the verb fier +‎ -ance or from Latin fidentia.

fiance oblique singular, f (oblique plural fiances, nominative singular fiance, nominative plural fiances)

1. faith; confidence
   • c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland:

     En tels vassals deit hom aveir fiance !

     In such knights a man must have confidence!

• foi