foule
English edit
Adjective edit
foule (comparative more foule, superlative most foule)
- Obsolete form of foul.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The Patron of true Holinesse
foule Errour doth defeate;
Hypocrisie him to entrappe
doth to his home entreate.
See also edit
- foule mudammas (etymologically unrelated)
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Middle French foule (“group of men, people collectively”), alteration (due to Middle French foule (“act of treading”)) of Old French foulc (“people, multitude, crowd, troop”), from Early Medieval Latin fulcus, from Frankish *folc, *fulc (“crowd, multitude, people”), from Proto-Germanic *fulką (“collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Cognate with Old High German folc (“people collectively, nation”), Old English folc (“common people, troop, multitude”). More at folk.
For the loss of c after l, compare Old French mareschal, seneschal, etc.
Noun edit
foule f (plural foules)
- crowd
- Les psychologues sociaux ont développé plusieurs théories afin d’expliquer la façon dont la psychologie d’une foule diffère et interagit avec celle des individus en son sein.
- Social Psychologists have developed several theories to explain the way in which the psychology of a crowd differs and interacts with that of the individuals within it.
- the thronging of a crowd
- a great number, multitude, mass; host
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle French foule (“the act of milling clothes or hats”) and fouler (“to trample, mill, fordo, mistreat”), from Old French foler (“to crush, act wickedly”), from Latin fullō (“to trample, to full”). More at full.
Noun edit
foule f (plural foules)
Verb edit
foule
- inflection of fouler:
Further reading edit
- “foule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Verb edit
foule
- inflection of foulen:
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Old French foulc (“people, multitude, crowd, troop”), from Vulgar Latin, from Frankish *folk (“crowd, multitude, people”), from Proto-Germanic *fulką (“collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”).
Noun edit
foule f (plural foules)