bataille
See also: bataillé
French
Etymology
From Middle French bataille, from Old French bataille, from Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia, from Latin battuō, of Gaulish origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.taj/, /ba.tɑj/
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Noun
bataille f (plural batailles)
- battle
- war (card game)
Derived terms
- arriver après la bataille
- bataille d'eau
- bataille rangée
- champ de bataille
- cheval de bataille
- cheveux en bataille
- ligne de bataille
- livrer bataille
- ordre de bataille
Related terms
- battre
See also
- lutte f
Further reading
- “bataille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Noun
bataille (plural batailles)
- Alternative form of batayle
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French bataille.
Noun
bataille f (plural batailles)
- battle
Descendants
- French: bataille
Norman
Alternative forms
- batâle (Jersey)
Etymology
From Old French bataille, from Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia, from Latin battuō.
Noun
bataille f (plural batailles)
- (Guernsey) battle
Old French
Etymology
From Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia, from Latin battuō.
Noun
bataille f (oblique plural batailles, nominative singular bataille, nominative plural batailles)
- battle
Related terms
- batre
Descendants
- Middle French: bataille
- French: bataille
- Norman: bataille, batâle
- Walloon: batreye
- → Asturian: batalla
- → Middle English: batayle, batel, bataylle, bataille, bataile, bataill, batail, batell, batayll, bateil, baitale
- English: battle
- Scots: battle
- → Old Spanish: batalla (or from Old Occitan)
- Ladino: batalya
- Spanish: batalla