complainte
French
Pronunciation
Noun
complainte f (plural complaintes)
Further reading
- “complainte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Old French
Alternative forms
- complente
- compleinte
- compleynte (Anglo-Norman)
Noun
complainte oblique singular, f (oblique plural complaintes, nominative singular complainte, nominative plural complaintes)
- complaint; lament
- Ci encoumence la complainte de Monseigneur Joffroi de Sergines - title of a poem by Rutebeuf
Related terms
Descendants
- English: complaint
References
- Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “complainte”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.