songe
See also: songé and Songe
English
Noun
songe (plural songes)
- Obsolete spelling of song.
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French songe, from Latin somnium. Compare Italian sogno, Spanish sueño and Portuguese sonho.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɔ̃ʒ/
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Noun
songe m (plural songes)
- (literary) dream
- Synonym: rêve
- 1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act I, scene 2:
- C'est en contraire sens qu'un songe s'interprète.
- It is contrarily that one interprets a dream.
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Further reading
- “songe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Noun
songe
- alternative form of song
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
songe oblique singular, m (oblique plural songes, nominative singular songes, nominative plural songe)
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Descendants
- French: songe
- Franc-Comtois: sondge