anciien
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *anteānus. Documented in the Alexis.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
anciien m (oblique and nominative feminine singular anciiene)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Middle French: ancien
- French: ancien
- Norman: ancien
- → Galician: ancián, anciao
- → Middle English: auncyen
- English: ancient
- → Sicilian: anzianu
- → Maltese: anzjan
- → Spanish: anciano
References edit
- “anciien”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.
- ^ Etymology and history of “ancien”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.