societé

See also: société and sociêté

Middle French

Etymology

    From Old French societé, borrowed from Latin societās, societātem (“society, community”).

    Noun

    societé f (plural societez)

    1. society (group of people)

    Descendants

    • French: société
      • → German: Sozietät
        • → Hunsrik: Sozieteet
      • → Haitian Creole: sosyete
      • → Romanian: societate
      • → Turkish: sosyete
    • Norman: sociêté
    • → English: society

    Old French

    Etymology

      Learned borrowing from Latin societās, societātem (“society, community”).

      Noun

      societé oblique singular, f (oblique plural societez, nominative singular societé, nominative plural societez)

      1. society (group of people)
      2. association; council; group; society; club

      Descendants

      See also

      • soistié (inherited cognate)

      References

      • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (societé, supplement)
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