fleche
See also: fleché, fléché, flèche, and Flèche
English
Noun
fleche (plural fleches)
- Alternative spelling of flèche
Verb
fleche (third-person singular simple present fleches, present participle fleching, simple past and past participle fleched)
- Alternative spelling of flèche
Anagrams
- fleech
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French fleche.
Noun
fleche f (plural fleches)
- arrow (projectile fired by a bow)
Descendants
- French: flèche
- → Dutch: flits
- → Middle Low German: flitse [16th c.]
- → German: Flitz
- → Middle Low German: flitse [16th c.]
- → English: flèche
- → Dutch: flits
Old French
Alternative forms
- flecche, fleke
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *fleccia.
Noun
fleche f (oblique plural fleches, nominative singular fleche, nominative plural fleches)
- arrow (projectile fired by a bow)
Synonyms
- saete
Descendants
- Middle French: fleche
- French: flèche (see there for further descendants)
- Picard: flèche (Athois)
- Walloon: flèche (Forrières)
Borrowings:
- → Italy:
- Emilian: frizza
- Istriot: sfracia
- Italian: freccia
- → Sardinian: fleccia, freccia, fercia, frezza, frizza[1]
- Piedmontese: flecia, flascia
- Romansch: frizza, frezza
- Sicilian: fileccia, fleccia
- → Maltese: vleġġa
- Venetian: frixa, fréça, frésa
- → Cimbrian: fritza
- → Iberia:
- Aragonese: flecha
- Asturian: flecha
- Old Portuguese: frecha, flecha
- Galician: frecha
- Portuguese: flecha, frecha
- Old Spanish: frecha, flecha
- Spanish: flecha
- → Others:
- Medieval Latin: flechia, flecha, flecca [13th c., France]
- Middle Dutch: vlieke (reborrowing[2])
- Dutch: vliek
- Middle English: flecche
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*fliukka”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 15/2: Germanismes: Bu–F, page 146
- Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964), “frèčča”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “vlieke”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page vlieke
Spanish
Verb
fleche
- inflection of flechar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative