promesse

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin prōmissa (“promise”), from Latin prōmissum (“promise”), from promittō (“to send forth; to promise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.mɛs/
• Hyphenation: pro‧messe
• Rhymes: -ɛs

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Noun

promesse f (plural promesses)

1. promise (all meanings)

   manquer à sa promesse ― to break one's promise (quite formal)

   Une promesse partiellement tenue est une promesse entièrement trahie.

   A partially-kept promise is a fully-broken one.

   (literally, “a fully broken promise”)

   • 2013, Zaz, Je rentre:

     Je fais la promesse de ne plus croire en ce qui me ment / Ne plus me nier dans ma souffrance

     I promise to stop believing in things that deceive me / To no longer deny myself in my suffering

Related terms

• promettre

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• emproses, emprosés

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /proˈmes.se/
• Rhymes: -esse
• Hyphenation: pro‧més‧se

Etymology 1

Noun

promesse f pl

1. plural of promessa (“promise”)

Etymology 2

Participle

promesse f pl

1. feminine plural of promesso

Anagrams

• essempro, permesso, premesso, rompesse

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin prōmissa (“promise”), from Latin prōmissum (“promise”), from promittō (“I send forth; I promise”).

Noun

promesse oblique singular, f (oblique plural promesses, nominative singular promesse, nominative plural promesses)

1. promise

Descendants

• → Middle English: promis, promisse
  • English: promise
• French: promesse