oraison
English
Noun
oraison (plural oraisons)
- Obsolete form of orison.
- c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- let's hear the Oraisons he make
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for oraison in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Roosian, Soriano
French
Etymology
From Middle French oraison, from Old French oroison et al., from Latin orātiō, orātiōnem, whence also English oration. The word, especially in the sense of "oration", may have been a very early borrowing into French in the Middle Ages as the other Romance cognates are borrowed learned terms as well, according to the Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé etymological dictionary.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ.ʁɛ.zɔ̃/, /ɔ.ʁe.zɔ̃/
Noun
oraison f (plural oraisons)
- oration
- orison, meditative prayer
References
- Etymology and history of “oraison”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
- “oraison”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French oroison.
Noun
oraison f (plural oraisons)
- oration
Descendants
- French: oraison