majesté
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin māiestās.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.ʒɛs.te/
Audio (la majesté) (file)
Noun
majesté f (plural majestés)
- majesty (greatness)
- majesty (quality of being majestic)
- majesty (title of a sovereign)
Derived terms
- lèse-majesté
- nous de majesté
- Sa Majesté
- Votre Majesté
Related terms
- majestueux
Descendants
- → Turkish: majeste
Further reading
- “majesté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- jetâmes
Old French
Noun
majesté f (oblique plural majestez, nominative singular majesté, nominative plural majestez)
- majesty; majesticness