ferté

See also: ferte

Old French

Alternative forms

fierté

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin ferus (“wild, untamed”).

Noun

ferté f (oblique plural fertez, nominative singular ferté, nominative plural fertez)

violence; force

References

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

ferté on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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