été
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ete"
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old French esté, from Latin aestātem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“burn; fire”).
Noun edit
été m (plural étés)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Louisiana Creole: èté
See also edit
Seasons in French · saisons (layout · text) · category | |||
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printemps (“spring”) | été (“summer”) | automne (“autumn”) | hiver (“winter”) |
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Old French esté, past participle of ester (“to stand, to be (stative)”) (which was conflated with estre in Old French); from Latin stātus, past participle of stāre (“to stand”). Compare also the noun état.
Participle edit
été (intransitive, hence invariable)
- past participle of être
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
- Aussi essayait-il [d’]accommoder [un nom à con cheval] qui désignât ce qu’il avait été avant d’entrer dans la chevalerie errante, et ce qu’il était alors.
- He tried to accommodate [a name for his horse] that would designate what he had been before entering into knight-errantry, and what he was currently.
- (Louisiana) past participle of aller
Further reading edit
- “été”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.