châtiment
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French chastiement, from the verb chastier (whence Modern French châtier), from Latin castīgō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]châtiment m (plural châtiments)
- punishment
- Synonym: punition
- 2003, Adeline Rucquoi, Saint Jacques et la France: actes du colloque des 18 et 19 janvier 2001 à la fondation Singer-Polignac [Saint James and France: Proceedings of the Symposium of the 18th and 19th of January at the Singer-Polignac Foundation], Editions du CERF, →ISBN, page 388:
- Le même exemplum y est placé juste après celui décrivant le châtiment tout aussi exemplaire des danseurs en cheval-jupon.
- The same exemplum there is placed just after that describing the equally exemplary punishment of dancers in the hobby horse.
Further reading
[edit]- “châtiment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.