volage
English
Etymology
From Old French volage, from Latin volāticus.
Adjective
volage (comparative more volage, superlative most volage)
- (archaic) Fickle, capricious, reckless.
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Manciple's Prologue and Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales:
- When Phoebus' wife had sent for her leman,
Anon they wroughten all their lust volage.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French volage, from Latin volāticus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɔ.laʒ/
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Adjective
volage (plural volages)
Further reading
- “volage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Adjective
volage m (oblique and nominative feminine singular volage)