truchement
French
Etymology
From Middle French truchement, from Old French drugement, borrowed from Arabic تُرْجُمَان (turjumān) during the crusades.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁyʃ.mɑ̃/
Noun
truchement m (plural truchements)
- (literary) interpreter, translator
- Synonym: interprète
- (literary) spokesperson
- Synonym: porte-parole
- (literary) intermediary
- 1831, Honoré de Balzac, Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu, Part 1
- La Forme est, dans ses figures, ce qu’elle est chez nous, un truchement pour se communiquer des idées, des sensations, une vaste poésie.
- 1831, Honoré de Balzac, Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu, Part 1
Further reading
- “truchement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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