pensif

Inherited from Old French pensif, from penser (“to think”), semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin pēnsō.

• IPA^(key): /pɑ̃.sif/

pensif (feminine pensive, masculine plural pensifs, feminine plural pensives)

1. pensive, thoughtful

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

pensif m (feminine singular pensifve, masculine plural pensifs, feminine plural pensifves)

1. pensive, thoughtful

From penser +‎ -if, from Late Latin pēnsō (“to think”); first attested 1268.

pensif m (oblique and nominative feminine singular pensive)

1. pensive, thoughtful