serment
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle French serement (1415, Charles d'Orléans), from Old French sairement (twelfth century), from earlier sagrament (842, Serments de Strasbourg), from Latin sacramentum. Doublet of sacrement.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editserment m (plural serments)
- oath, pledge
- 1970, Léo Ferré (lyrics and music), “Avec les temps”:
- Entre les mots, entre les lignes et sous le fard / D’un serment maquillé qui s’en va faire sa nuit / Avec le temps tout s’évanouit
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “serment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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