pitié
See also: pitie
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French pité, pitet, inherited from Latin pietātem. Doublet of piété.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.tje/
Audio (Paris): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) - Homophone: pitiés
- Hyphenation: pi‧tié
Noun
pitié f (plural pitiés)
- pity, mercy
- Synonyms: merci, miséricorde
Derived terms
Further reading
- “pitié”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Noun
pitié oblique singular, f (oblique plural pitiez, nominative singular pitié, nominative plural pitiez)
- alternative form of pité