religieux

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French religieux. Doublet of religious.

Pronunciation

Noun

religieux (plural religieux)

  1. A man bound by monastic vows; a monk.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 religieux in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

French

Etymology

From Old French religieus, from Latin religiōsus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʁə.li.ʒjø/
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Adjective

religieux (feminine religieuse, masculine plural religieux, feminine plural religieuses)

  1. religious

Derived terms
  • alétho-religieux
  • aléthoreligieux
  • anti-religieux
  • antireligieux
  • areligieux
  • civil-religieux
  • crypto-religieux
  • cryptoreligieux
  • éthico-religieux”
  • éthicoreligieux”
  • ethno-religieux
  • ethnoreligieux
  • infra-religieux
  • infrareligieux
  • interreligieux
  • intra-religieux
  • intrareligieux
  • irréligieux
  • mante religieuse
  • mariage religieux
  • mono-religieux
  • monoreligieux
  • multi-religieux
  • multireligieux
  • musico-religieux
  • musicoreligieux
  • néo-religieux
  • néoreligieux
  • non-religieux
  • nonreligieux
  • paléo-religieux
  • paléoreligieux
  • para-religieux
  • parareligieux
  • politico-religieux
  • politicoreligieux
  • pro-religieux
  • proreligieux
  • pseudo-religieux
  • pseudoreligieux
  • quasi religieux
  • quasi-religieux
  • quasireligieux
  • religieusement
  • semi-religieux
  • semireligieux
  • super-religieux
  • superreligieux
  • suprareligieux
  • suprareligieux
  • ultra-religieux
  • ultrareligieux
  • uni-religieux
  • unireligieux

Descendants
  • → Danish: religiøs
  • → German: religiös
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: religiøs
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: religiøs
  • → Romanian: religios
  • → Swedish: religiös

Noun

religieux m (plural religieux, feminine religieuse)

  1. a religious person (man)
  2. (Catholicism) a person (man) who is a member of a religious institute, or society, in which the member takes a public vow and lives a fraternal life in common; friar; monk

Derived terms
  • ex-religieux
  • nonreligieux
  • non-religieux
  • non religieux

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