nimphe
French edit
Noun edit
nimphe f (plural nimphes)
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French nimphe, from Latin nympha, from Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nimphe (plural nimphes)
- nymph (mythological being)
Descendants edit
- English: nymph
References edit
- “nimphe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-05.
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
nimphe oblique singular, f (oblique plural nimphes, nominative singular nimphe, nominative plural nimphes)
- nymph (minor female deity)
Descendants edit
- French: nymphe
- → Middle Dutch: nymphe
- Dutch: nimf
- → Middle English: nimphe, nymphe, nemphe
- English: nymph
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (nymphe, supplement)