état

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See also: Etat, êtat, etât, and État

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French estat, borrowed from Latin stātus (whence also the past participle été).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /e.ta/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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état m (plural états)

  1. state, condition
  2. (generally proscribed) Alternative letter-case form of État

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Haitian Creole: eta

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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·état

  1. third-person plural present indicative prototonic of ad·cota
  2. third-person plural present subjunctive prototonic of ad·cota

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
·état unchanged ·n-état
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.