condoléance
See also: condoleance and condoléancé
Dutch edit
Noun edit
condoléance f (plural condoléances)
Usage notes edit
- The spelling condoléance was deprecated in 1996 in the new Groene Boekje (“Little Green Book”) spelling reform.
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Formed, on the basis of doléance, from Old French condoloir (cf. condouloir), borrowed from Latin condelere.
Noun edit
condoléance f (plural condoléances)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Dutch: condoleance
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
condoléance
- inflection of condoléancer:
Further reading edit
- “condoléance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.