condoléance

condoléance f (plural condoléances)

1. Superseded spelling of condoleance.

• The spelling condoléance was deprecated in 1996 in the new Groene Boekje (“Little Green Book”) spelling reform.

Formed, on the basis of doléance, from Old French condoloir (cf. condouloir), borrowed from Latin condoleo, condelere.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.dɔ.le.ɑ̃s/

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condoléance f (plural condoléances)

1. sympathy, condolence

condoléance

1. first-person singular present indicative of condoléancer
2. third-person singular present indicative of condoléancer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of condoléancer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of condoléancer
5. second-person singular imperative of condoléancer

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