prône

From prônai.

prône m (plural prônes)

1. religious speech, sermon

From Middle French prosne (“homily”), from Old French prodne (“grating around the altar, in front of which the priest stood during homily”), from Vulgar Latin *protinum, dissimilation of protirum, from Classical Latin prothyra, from Ancient Greek πρόθυρα (próthura, “vestibule”).

• IPA^(key): /pʁon/

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prône m (plural prônes)

1. sermon, homily

prône

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

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