état

See also: Etat, êtat, etât, and État

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /e.ta/
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Noun

état m (plural états)

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

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: eta

Further reading

Anagrams

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeː.d̪əd̪/
    • (Blasse) [ˈeː.d̪ad̪]
    • (Griffith) [ˈeː.d̪əd̪]

Verb

·état

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

Mutation

Mutation of ·état
radical lenition nasalization
·état
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
·état ·n-état

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.