doléance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Formed from Middle French douliance, itself from doulant, the present participle of the verb douloir, Old French doloir (corresponding to Latin dolēntem, present participle of doleō (“to suffer”)), and the suffix -ance. The -é- is of uncertain origin; it was possibly recreated based on the model of créance, échéance.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]doléance f (plural doléances)
Derived terms
[edit]- (historical) cahier de doléance
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “doléance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Categories:
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *delh₁-
- French terms inherited from Middle French
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns