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viande

See also: viànde

Bourguignon

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Etymology

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From Latin vivenda.

Noun

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viande f (plural viandes)

  1. meat

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French viande, from Vulgar Latin *vīvanda, alteration of Latin vīvenda, from the neuter plural form of vīvendus, from vīvere (“to live”). Compare English viand, Italian vivanda, Portuguese vivenda, Spanish vivienda.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vjɑ̃d/
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Noun

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viande f (plural viandes)

  1. meat
    Synonyms: barbaque, (France, slang) bidoche
    • 1869, Charles Baudelaire, Petits poèmes en prose:
      À voir les enfers dont le monde est peuplé, que voulez-vous que je pense de votre joli enfer, vous qui ne reposez que sur des étoffes aussi douces que votre peau, qui ne mangez que de la viande cuite, et pour qui un domestique habile prend soin de découper les morceaux ?
      Seeing the hells with which the world abounds, what do you expect me to think of your pretty little hell, you who lie on stuffs as soft as your own skin, who eat only cooked meat carefully cut for you by a skilled servant?
  2. (obsolete) food
    • 1534, François Rabelais, Gargantua:
      Car notez que c’est viande celeste manger à desjeuner raisins avec fouace fraiche.
      For here it is to be remarked, that it is a celestial food to eat for breakfast hot fresh cakes with grapes.
  3. (sexuality) an object of sexual desire; a piece of meat

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Further reading

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Anagrams

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Latin

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Participle

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viande

  1. vocative masculine singular of viandus

Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French viande.

Noun

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viande f (plural viandes)

  1. food; nourishment
  2. (16th century onwards) meat (edible flesh of an animal)

Usage notes

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Descendants

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  • French: viande

References

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  • viande on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (viande, supplement)

Norman

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old French viande, from Vulgar Latin *vīvanda, alteration of Latin vīvenda, from the neuter plural form of vīvendus (“which is to be lived”), future passive participle of vīvō, vīvere (“live”, verb).

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Noun

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viande f (plural viandes)

  1. (Jersey) meat

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Old French

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Alternative forms

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  • vïande (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *vīvanda, alteration of Latin vīvenda, from the neuter plural form of vīvendus (“which is to be lived”), future passive participle of vīvō, vīvere (“live”, verb).

Noun

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viande oblique singular, f (oblique plural viandes, nominative singular viande, nominative plural viandes)

  1. food (anything which when ingested into the digestive system provides nutrition for the body)

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  • Not used to mean 'meat' until the 16th century.[1]

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion, page 151, part of the 'philological and grammatical commentary' by André Esékénazi. →ISBN
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