charité

From Old French charité, carité, borrowing from or francization of Latin cāritās, cāritātem (“love, regard”) (or the variant chāritās), from carus (“dear”) (whence French cher), from Proto-Indo-European *kāro- (“dear”). (Watkins, 1969 et al.). See also the doublet cherté.

• IPA^(key): /ʃa.ʁi.te/

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charité f (plural charités)

1. charity

• “charité” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• châtier, cithare

• caritet (early Old French)
• carité
• charitei

Francization of Latin cāritās, cāritātem (“love, regard”).

charité f (oblique plural charitez, nominative singular charité, nominative plural charitez)

1. generosity; sense of charity
   • circa 1250, Rutebeuf, Ci encoumence la chanson de Puille:

     Car Dieux est plains de charitei

     For God is full of charity

2. charitable institution

• English: charity (borrowed)
• French: charité

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (charité)