été

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /e.te/
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Rhymes: -e
Homophones: étés, étai (some speakers)

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French esté, from Latin aestātem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“burn; fire”).

Noun

été m (plural étés)

summer

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Louisiana Creole: èté

Seasons in French · saisons (layout · text) · category
printemps (“spring”)	été (“summer”)	automne (“autumn”)	hiver (“winter”)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old French esté, past participle of ester (“to stand, to be (stative)”) (which was conflated with estre in Old French); from Latin stātus, past participle of stāre (“to stand”). Compare also the noun état.

Participle

été (intransitive, hence invariable)

past participle of être
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
  Aussi essayait-il [d']accommoder [un nom à con cheval] qui désignât ce qu’il avait été avant d’entrer dans la chevalerie errante, et ce qu’il était alors.
  He tried to accommodate [a name for his horse] that would designate what he had been before entering into knight-errantry, and what he was currently.
(Louisiana) past participle of aller

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