chanoine
French
Etymology
Inherited from Ecclesiastical Latin canonicus, a borrowing from Ancient Greek κανονικός (kanonikós). Doublet of canonique.
Pronunciation
Noun
chanoine m (plural chanoines, feminine chanoinesse)
- (religion) canon (type of clergymember)
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Et tu vis là, chez moi, comme un chanoine, comme un coq en pâte, à te goberger!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
See also
Further reading
- “chanoine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012