See also: Etat, êtat, etât, and État

French edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old French estat, borrowed from Latin stātus (whence also the past participle été).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /e.ta/
  • (file)

Noun edit

état m (plural états)

  1. state, condition
  2. (generally proscribed) Alternative letter-case form of État

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Haitian Creole: eta

Further reading edit

Anagrams edit

Old Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

·état

  1. third-person plural present indicative prototonic of ad·cota
  2. third-person plural present subjunctive prototonic of ad·cota

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
·état unchanged ·n-état
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.