charité
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French charité, carité, a borrowing from Latin cāritātem (“love, regard”), which see for more. Doublet of cherté.
Pronunciation
Noun
charité f (plural charités)
Derived terms
- c'est l'hôpital qui se fout de la charité
- c'est l'hôpital qui se moque de la charité
- charité bien ordonnée commence par soi-même
Further reading
- “charité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
Old French
Alternative forms
- caritet (early Old French)
- carité, charitei
Etymology
10th century, borrowed from Latin cāritātem (“love, regard”). Doublet of chierté. The borrowing was probably early enough for the regular development /ka/ > /tʃa/ to take place (cf. chapitre). Alternatively the word may have been artificially adapted to Old French chier, the inherited descendant of Latin cārus.
Noun
charité oblique singular, f (oblique plural charitez, nominative singular charité, nominative plural charitez)
- charity, love (Christian virtue)
- c. 1250, Rutebeuf, Ci encoumence la chanson de Puille:
- Car Dieux est plains de charitei
- For God is full of charity
- charitable institution
Descendants
Further reading
- Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “charité”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.