charogne
See also: fromajo
Franco-Provençal edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *carōnia.
Noun edit
charogne f
References edit
- charogne in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French charogne, from Vulgar Latin *carōnia, from Latin carō (“meat, flesh”). Compare Italian carogna.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
charogne f (plural charognes)
- carrion
- Synonym: cadavre
- 1857, Charles Baudelaire, “Une charogne”, in Les Fleurs du mal [The Flowers of Evil], Paris: Poulet-Malassis et De Broise:
- Rappelez-vous l’objet que nous vîmes, mon âme, / Ce beau matin d’été si doux : / Au détour d’un sentier une charogne infâme / Sur un lit semé de cailloux,
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (derogatory) asshole, bastard
- Synonym: salaud
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “charogne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *carōnia
Noun edit
charogne oblique singular, f (oblique plural charognes, nominative singular charogne, nominative plural charognes)
Descendants edit
- Angevin: charogne
- Anglo-Norman: carogne
- Bourbonnais-Berrichon: chareugne
- Franc-Comtois: charogne
- French: charogne
- Gallo: charingne
- Lorrain: chèragne, chèrogne, charoune, chorôn, tchéréye
- Norman: carogne, quéroigne
- Picard: carogne, carone
- Poitevin-Saintongeais: charogne
- Walloon: tcharogne
- → Middle English: caroigne
- English: carrion
References edit
- Etymology and history of “charogne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*caronia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 394