serment
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French serement (1415, Charles d'Orléans), from Old French sairement (twelfth century), from earlier sagrament (842, Serments de Strasbourg), from Latin sacramentum. Doublet of sacrement.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]serment m (plural serments)
- oath, pledge
- 1970, Léo Ferré (lyrics and music), “Avec les temps”:
- Entre les mots, entre les lignes et sous le fard / D’un serment maquillé qui s’en va faire sa nuit / Avec le temps tout s’évanouit
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “serment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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