fierté
English
Etymology
From French fierté.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fjɛɹ.teɪ/, /fi.(j)ɛɹ.teɪ/
Noun
fierté (uncountable)
- Pride, high self-esteem.
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 31, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541:
- [H]e understood that Godfrey's fiertè had proceeded from the jealous sensibility of a gentleman declined into the vale of misfortune.
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Anagrams
- Eifert, ifreet, treife
French
Etymology
From fier + -té, corresponding to Latin feritās, feritātem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fjɛʁ.te/
Noun
fierté f (plural fiertés)
- pride (positive emotion), self-esteem
- 1759, Voltaire, chapter 13, in Candide:
- Ce seigneur avait une fierté convenable à un homme qui portait tant de noms.
- This nobleman carried himself with a haughtiness suitable to a person who bore so many names.
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Related terms
- fier
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: fyète
- Louisiana Creole French: lafyèrté
- Mauritian Creole: fyerte
- Seychellois Creole: lafyerte
Further reading
- “fierté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.