soie

Inherited from Middle French soye, from Old French soie, earlier seie, from Latin sēta, saeta, from Proto-Italic *saitā, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ito-, *sh₂éyto-, from *sh₂ey-, *seh₂i- (“to bind”).

• IPA^(key): /swa/

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• Homophones: soi, soient, soies, sois, soit

soie f (plural soies)

1. silk

   cri de la soie

   a description of the sound of rubbing a rough knitted silken necktie against itself

2. bristle
3. tang (of a blade)

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

• oies

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔ.je/
• Rhymes: -ɔje
• Hyphenation: sò‧ie

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

soie f

1. plural of soia

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

soie f pl

1. (Old Italian) alternative form of sue, feminine plural of suo
   • 1350s, anonymous author, “Como frate Venturino venne a Roma colle palommelle e dello campanile de Santo Pietro lo quale fu arzo. [About how fra Venturino came to Rome with doves, and about the bell tower of St. Peter that was burned down]” (chapter 6), in Cronica [Chronicle]‎^[1] (overall work in Old Italian); republished as Giuseppe Porta, editor, Anonimo romano - Cronica, Adelphi, 1979, →ISBN:

     uno frate predicatore, lo quale avea nome frate Venturino de Bergamo de Lommardia, dello ordine de santo Domenico, commosse con soie predicazioni devote la maiure parte de Lommardia (Romanesco)

     a preacher, who was named fra Venturino from Bergamo in Lombardy, of the Order of Saint Dominic, moved the larger part of Lombardy with his devout preachings

• Iosè, iseo

From Old Irish saidid. Cognate to Irish suigh and Scottish Gaelic suidh.

soie (verbal noun soiaghey)

1. to set, settle, set up
2. to plant, implant, seat, situate
3. to determine, fix, synchronize
4. to let

• fo-hoie
• roie-hoie

• seie

From Latin seta, saeta.

soie oblique singular, f (oblique plural soies, nominative singular soie, nominative plural soies)

1. silk

• Middle French: soye
  • French: soie
• Norman: souaie