French words first recorded in the 11th century

It is inherited from Old French taster, inherited from Vulgar Latin *tastāre, a contraction of *taxitāre, frequentative of Latin taxō (“to touch often and hard”), an intensive of tangō (“to touch”)…

It is borrowed from Latin temptō (“to touch, feel; to try, test; to attack”), also written “tentō”, probably after the popular pronunciation. The TLFi, the Grand Robert and the Petit Robert note its…

Its origin is one of the most obscure in Romance etymology; it exists in all the Romance languages except Romanian and Dalmatian (Italian tirare, Spanish tirar, Portuguese tirar) and must be old…

It is inherited from Old French tochier, inherited from Vulgar Latin *toccō (“to knock, strike”), probably an onomatopoeic formation “to go “toc””, which every Romance language kept at the expense…

It is formed from French tout + jour, from the plural Old French “tuz jurz”, literally “all days”. It replaced Old French sempre (“always”), from Latin semper, which early shifted to “at once”…

1. The tower is inherited from Old French tur, inherited from Latin turris (“tower; siege tower; house of several storeys”), accusative “turrem”. The Latin word is generally held to be borrowed from…

It is a deverbal noun from tracer. Bloch and Wartburg derive the verb from Vulgar Latin *tractiō, from Latin tractus (“a drawing, a line”), from trahō (“to draw, pull”); in Old French the verb often…

It is inherited from Old French traitier, inherited from Latin tractō (“to drag; to handle; to manage; to deal with, discuss”), the frequentative of trahō (“to draw, pull”) (see traire), formed on…

It is inherited from Old French travaillier (“to torment, make suffer”), inherited from Vulgar Latin *tripāliō (“to torture”), formed on tripālium, the name of an instrument of torture, from…

It is inherited from Late Latin trāversum, the neuter of Latin trānsversus (“lying across, oblique”) used as a noun, already common in adverbial phrases such as “in transversum” and “de transverso”…

It is borrowed from Frankish *þorp (“heap, gathering; village”), with metathesis; the Frankish word also gave Medieval Latin troppus (“herd, flock”), recorded from about 700 (“troppo de jumentis” “a…

It is inherited from Old French valor, inherited from Latin valor (“worth, value”), through its accusative valōrem, from valeō (“to be strong; to be worth”) (see valoir). Cognate with Italian…

It is inherited from Latin versō (“to turn often; to stir; to knock about”), the frequentative of vertō (“to turn”). The Latin verb vertere continues an older form with ⟨o⟩, and its Indo-European…

It is inherited from Old French vert, inherited from Latin viridis (“green; fresh, vigorous”), through Late Latin virdis, from vireō (“to be green”), a word of unknown origin. Wiktionary explains…

It is borrowed from Latin victōria (“victory; the goddess Victory; her statue”), first as “victorie” and then Frenchified as “victoire”. The Latin word is the feminine of an adjective formed from…

It is the Old French feminine vuide, which ousted the masculine “vuit” by the 15th century, inherited from Vulgar Latin *vocitus (“empty”), from “*vocuus”, an archaic variant of classical Latin…

It is inherited from Old French vigne, inherited from Latin vīnea (“vineyard; vine”), the feminine used as a noun of vīneus (“of wine”), from Latin vīnum (“wine”) (see vin). In Latin “vinea” was…

It is inherited from Old French vint, from Late Latin “vinti”, found in inscriptions, a contraction of classical inherited from Latin vīgintī (“twenty”). The Latin numeral is made of “vi-”, a…

It is formed from Old French vis (“face”) + -age. “Vis”, used until the mid-17th century and kept in vis-à-vis, is inherited from Latin vīsus (“sight; appearance”), the action noun of videō (“to…

It is inherited from Old French veie, inherited from Latin via (“way, road, street; journey; method”). In Latin the word was the road as opposed to sēmita (“path”) (see sente), and it also had the…

It is inherited from Old French veiage, inherited from Latin viāticum (“provisions or money for a journey, (late) journey”), the neuter of viāticus (“of a journey”), from via (“road, way”). In the…

It is the past participle of voir, inherited from Old French veü, earlier vedüt, perhaps from a Vulgar Latin *vidūtus that replaced classical Latin vīsus. The verb continues videō (“to see”)…

It is the feminine past participle of voir used as a noun, the verb being inherited from Latin videō (“to see”). Compare Italian veduta.