compaignie
Middle English edit
Noun edit
compaignie
- Alternative form of companye
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French compaignie.
Noun edit
compaignie f (plural compaignies)
- company (state of being with other people)
- (somewhat euphemistic) company (sexual liaison)
- company (group of knights, approximately equivalent to a modern military company)
Descendants edit
- French: compagnie (see there for further descendants)
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (compagnie, supplement)