senestre

• sénestre
• senêtre

From Middle French senestre, from Old French senestre, from Latin sinister. Doublet of sinistre. The expected form in modern French would have been senêtre, but as it is a dated word in general or pertains to medieval heraldry, it maintained a more archaic pronunciation and form from Middle French, around the time the term became replaced by gauche as the main word for "left" (circa 16th century).

• IPA^(key): /sə.nɛstʁ/, /se.nɛstʁ/

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senestre (plural senestres)

1. (dated) (on the) left
2. (heraldry) sinister; left-hand side of the shield

• sinistre
• gauche

• “senestre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French, from Latin sinister, sinistrum.

senestre m (uncountable)

1. left (left-hand side)

• French: senestre

From Latin sinister, sinistrum (possibly through a Vulgar Latin root *sinexter, sinextrum, from contamination with dexter (whence Old French destre)).

senestre m (oblique and nominative feminine singular senestre)

1. left (on the left-hand side)

• Middle French: senestre
  • French: senestre
• Norman: s'nêtre