propreté
French
Etymology
propre + -eté. Compare propriété.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁɔ.pʁə.te/
Audio (file)
Noun
propreté f (plural propretés)
- cleanliness; cleanness
Further reading
- “propreté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Alternative forms
- proprieté
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin proprietas, proprietatem.
Noun
propreté f (oblique plural propretez, nominative singular propreté, nominative plural propretez) (often Anglo-Norman)
- ownership (the right to own, to possess)
- property (something that one owns)
Descendants
- Anglo-Norman: propreté
- → Middle English: propertee, properte, propirte, proprete
- English: property
- → Middle English: propertee, properte, propirte, proprete
- Middle French: proprieté
- → Middle English: propriete (“ownership”)
- English: propriety
- French: propriété
- → Middle English: propriete (“ownership”)
References
- propreté on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub