viande
Bourguignon
Etymology
From Latin vivenda.
Noun
viande f (plural viandes)
- meat
Synonyms
- châr
- carne
French
Etymology
From Old French viande, from Vulgar Latin *vīvanda, alteration of Latin vīvenda, from the neuter plural form of vīvendus, from vīvere (“to live”). Compare English viand, Italian vivanda, Portuguese vivenda, Spanish vivienda.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vjɑ̃d/
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Noun
viande f (plural viandes)
- meat
- Synonyms: barbaque, (France, slang) bidoche
- 1869, Charles Baudelaire, Petits poèmes en prose
- À voir les enfers dont le monde est peuplé, que voulez-vous que je pense de votre joli enfer, vous qui ne reposez que sur des étoffes aussi douces que votre peau, qui ne mangez que de la viande cuite, et pour qui un domestique habile prend soin de découper les morceaux ?
- Seeing the hells with which the world abounds, what do you expect me to think of your pretty little hell, you who lie on stuffs as soft as your own skin, who eat only cooked meat carefully cut for you by a skilled servant?
- (obsolete) food
- 1534, François Rabelais, Gargantua
- Car notez que c’est viande celeste manger à desjeuner raisins avec fouace fraiche.
- For here it is to be remarked, that it is a celestial food to eat for breakfast hot fresh cakes with grapes.
- 1534, François Rabelais, Gargantua
- (sexuality) an object of sexual desire; a piece of meat
Derived terms
- couteau à viande
- pain de viande
- pâté à la viande
- viande fumée
- viande hachée
Further reading
- “viande”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- devina
Latin
Participle
viande
- vocative masculine singular of viandus
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French viande.
Noun
viande f (plural viandes)
- food; nourishment
- (16th century onwards) meat (edible flesh of an animal)
Usage notes
- See Old French viande below.
Descendants
- French: viande
References
- viande on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (viande, supplement)
Norman
Alternative forms
- viànde (Guernsey)
- vyãd (Sark)
Etymology
From Old French viande, from Vulgar Latin *vīvanda, alteration of Latin vīvenda, from the neuter plural form of vīvendus (“which is to be lived”), future passive participle of vīvō, vīvere (“live”, verb).
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Noun
viande f (plural viandes)
- (Jersey) meat
Derived terms
- viande dé vaque (“beef”)
- viande au fou (“roast meat”)
Old French
Alternative forms
- vïande (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *vīvanda, alteration of Latin vīvenda, from the neuter plural form of vīvendus (“which is to be lived”), future passive participle of vīvō, vīvere (“live”, verb).
Noun
viande f (oblique plural viandes, nominative singular viande, nominative plural viandes)
- food (anything which when ingested into the digestive system provides nutrition for the body)
Usage notes
- Not used to mean 'meat' until the 16th century[1].
Descendants
- → English: viand
- Middle French: viande
- French: viande
- Norman: viande, viànde
- → Old Portuguese: vianda
- Galician: vianda
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (viande, supplement)
- viande on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion, page 151, part of the 'philological and grammatical commentary' by André Esékénazi. →ISBN