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The French-language phrase nom de plume is used as a synonym for "pen name" [3] (plume means 'pen'). However, it is not the French usage, according to H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler in The King's English, but instead a "back-translation" from English. The French usage is nom de guerre (a more generalised term for 'pseudonym'). [4]
Since English is of Germanic origin, words that have entered English from French borrowings of Germanic words might not look especially French. Latin accounts for about 60% of English vocabulary either directly or via a Romance language. As both English and French have taken many words from Latin, determining whether a given Latin word came ...
in English, a person who cooks professionally for other people. In French the word means "head" or "chief"; a professional cook is a cuisinier (lit. "cook"), chef-cuisinier referring to a head cook. Also, sous-chef, the second-in-command, directly under the head chef.
Gazette is a loanword from the French language, which is, in turn, a 16th-century permutation of the Italian gazzetta, which is the name of a particular Venetian coin. Gazzetta became an epithet for newspaper during the early and middle 16th century, when the first Venetian newspapers cost one gazzetta. [ 1 ] (
WordReference is an online translation dictionary for, among others, the language pairs English–French, English–Italian, English–Spanish, French–Spanish, Spanish–Portuguese and English–Portuguese. WordReference formerly had Oxford Unabridged and Concise dictionaries available for a subscription.
The French word for 80 is quatre-vingts, literally "four twenties", and the word for 75 is soixante-quinze, literally "sixty-fifteen". The vigesimal method of counting is analogous to the archaic English use of score, as in "fourscore and seven" (87), or "threescore and ten" (70).
The Collins Robert French Dictionary (marketed in France as Le Robert et Collins Dictionnaire) is a bilingual dictionary of English and French derived [clarification needed] from the Collins Word Web, an analytical linguistics database.
The word Franglais was first attested in French in 1959, [3] but it was popularised by the academic, novelist, and critic René Étiemble in his denunciation of the overuse of English words in French, Parlez-vous franglais? published in 1964. [4] Earlier than the French term was the English label Frenglish, first recorded in 1937. [5]