complainte
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French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]complainte f (plural complaintes)
Further reading
[edit]- “complainte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- complente
- compleinte
- compleynte (Anglo-Norman)
Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: complaint
References
[edit]- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (complainte)