fleche

See also: fleché, fléché, flèche, and Flèche

English

Noun

fleche (plural fleches)

  1. Alternative spelling of flèche.

Verb

fleche (third-person singular simple present fleches, present participle fleching, simple past and past participle fleched)

  1. Alternative spelling of flèche.

Anagrams

Middle French

Etymology

  • Inherited from Old French fleche, from Vulgar Latin *fleccia, borrowed from Frankish *fliukkijā, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, from *plew-.

    Noun

    fleche f (plural fleches)

    1. arrow (projectile fired by a bow)

    Descendants

    • French: flèche
      • → Dutch: flits
        • → Middle Low German: flitse [16th c.]
      • → English: flèche

    Old French

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

  • Inherited from Vulgar Latin *fleccia, borrowed from Frankish *fliukkijā, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, from *plew-.

    Noun

    fleche oblique singular, f (oblique plural fleches, nominative singular fleche, nominative plural fleches)

    1. arrow (projectile fired by a bow)

    Synonyms

    Descendants

    Borrowings:

    References

    1. ^ Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964), “frèčča”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
    2. ^ Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “vlieke”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page vlieke

    Spanish

    Verb

    fleche

    1. inflection of flechar:
      1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
      2. third-person singular imperative
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