compaignon
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French compaignon.
Noun
compaignon m (plural compaignons)
- companion; friend
- member
- 1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 18:
- il lui dist qu'il estoit de la maison au roy Artus compaignon de la table ronde
- he told him he was of the house of King Arthur and a member of the round table
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Descendants
- French: compagnon
Old French
Alternative forms
- compagnon
Etymology
From Late Latin compāniō (literally “he with whom one shares one's bread”), from com- + pānis (with + bread), first attested in the Frankish Lex Salica as a calque of a Germanic word, probably Frankish *galaibo, *gahlaibo (“messmate”, literally “with-bread”), from *hlaib (“loaf, bread”). Compare Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌰 (gahlaiba, “messmate”) from 𐌲𐌰- (ga-, “with”) + 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌰 (hlaiba, “bread”), Old High German galeipo from ga- (“with”) + leipo (“bread”). Compare also with the etymologically related term compaignie.
Noun
compaignon m (oblique plural compaignons, nominative singular compaing, nominative plural compaignon)
- friend
- colleague, companion
Descendants
- Middle French: compaignon
- French: compagnon, copain