thé

See also: Appendix:Variations of "the"

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch thee, from Hokkien 茶 (tê).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /te/

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• Homophones: T, tes
• Rhymes: -e

Noun

thé m (plural thés)

1. tea (especially made from leaves of the tea plant)

Usage notes

In the strict sense thé only applies to tea made from leaves of the tea plant such as green tea or black tea; for any other type of herbal tea tisane or infusion are more commonly used.

Derived terms

• boule à thé
• cérémonie du thé
• cuillère à thé
• pause thé
• salon de thé
• tasse à thé
• tasse de thé
• thé à la menthe
• thé au lait
• thé dansant
• thé d’Aubrac
• thé noir
• thé vert
• théière

 

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: te
• Louisiana Creole: thé
• → Armenian: թեյ (tʻey)
• → Coeur d'Alene: liiti
• → Corsican: tè
• → Greek: τέϊον (téïon) (with neuter suffix -ion)
• → Italian: tè, té (misspelling)
  • → Romansch: te, té, tè
• → Norman: thée
• → Occitan: tè
• → Ojibwe: nitii
• → Romansch: te, té, tè
• → South Slavey: lidí
• → Tîrî: tee
• → Walloon: té

Further reading

• thé on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “thé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Irish

Verb

thé

1. Lenited form of té.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θʲeː/

Adjective

thé

1. Lenited form of té.