societé

See also: société and sociêté

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French societé, borrowed from Latin societās, societātem (“society, community”).

Noun

societé f (plural societez)

1. society (group of people)

Descendants

• French: société
  • → German: Sozietät
    • → Hunsrik: Sozieteet
  • → Haitian Creole: sosyete
  • → Romanian: societate
  • → Turkish: sosyete
• Norman: sociêté
• → English: society

Old French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin societās, societātem (“society, community”).

Noun

societé oblique singular, f (oblique plural societez, nominative singular societé, nominative plural societez)

1. society (group of people)
2. association; council; group; society; club

Descendants

• Middle French: societé
  • French: société
    • → German: Sozietät
      • → Hunsrik: Sozieteet
    • → Haitian Creole: sosyete
    • → Romanian: societate
    • → Turkish: sosyete
  • Norman: sociêté
  • → English: society

See also

• soistié (inherited cognate)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (societé, supplement)