bacheler
Appearance
Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French bacheler.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bacheler (plural bachelers)
Descendants
[edit]- English: bachelor
References
[edit]- “bachelēr, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin baccalaureus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bacheler oblique singular, m (oblique plural bachelers, nominative singular bachelers, nominative plural bacheler)
- young man
- c. 1250, Marie de France, Milun:
- li bachelers li respundi
- the young man replied to her
Descendants
[edit]- Middle French: bacheler
- French: bachelier
- → Middle English: bacheler
- English: bachelor
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: bachiller, bachaler, bacheler, bacheller, bachiler
- Portuguese: bacharel
- → Hunsrik: Bascharell
- Portuguese: bacharel
References
[edit]- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bacheler, supplement)
- “bacheler1”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.
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