enchantement
French
Etymology
From Middle French enchantement, from Old French enchantement.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.ʃɑ̃t.mɑ̃/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɑ̃
- Homophone: enchantements
Noun
enchantement m (plural enchantements)
- enchantment
- 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:
- « Je savais déjà bien, s’écria-t-il, que dans cette maudite maison tout est enchantement ; l’autre fois, au même endroit où je me trouve à présent, on m’a roué de coups de poing et de coups de pied, sans que j’aie su qui me les donnait, et sans que j’aie pu voir personne ; et voilà que maintenant cette tête ne paraît pas, moi qui l’ai vu couper de mes propres yeux, si bien que le sang coulait du corps comme d’une fontaine. »
- "I already knew well," cried he, "that in this cursed house all is enchantment; the other time, in the same spot where I am at present, someone beat me with blows from fists and feet, without my knowing who gave them to me, and without my being able to see anyone; and here now this head is not appearing, I having seen in cut off with my own eyes so well that the blood flowed from the body like from a fountain."
Related terms
Further reading
- “enchantement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Old French
Noun
enchantement oblique singular, m (oblique plural enchantemenz or enchantementz, nominative singular enchantemenz or enchantementz, nominative plural enchantement)
- charm (item with supposed magical powers)
- c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:
- Et a la pierre de l’anel
Qu’il n’i a point d’anchantemant- And [he sees] that in the stone of the ring
That there is no charm
- And [he sees] that in the stone of the ring
Descendants
- → English: enchantment
- Middle French: enchantement
- French: enchantement
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