fiance

From French fiancé. The verb is from fiancer.

fiance (plural fiances)

1. Alternative spelling of fiancé

fiance (third-person singular simple present fiances, present participle fiancing, simple past and past participle fianced)

1. (obsolete) To betroth; to affiance.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Harmar to this entry?)

   • 1993 Cindy Holbrook, A Daring Deception, page 91

     he should become so lusty over a lady of such questionable motives? He was fianced, after all. Perhaps that was it. Since his engagement, he had abstained from any liaisons, feeling it was only proper in a man soon to be married

• fancie

• IPA^(key): /fjɑ̃s/
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

From Middle French fiance, from Old French fiance, from fier +‎ -ance.

fiance f (plural fiances)

1. (obsolete) faith; confidence

See the etymology of the main entry.

fiance

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

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

From Old French < fier +‎ -ance or Latin fidentia.

fiance f (plural fiances)

1. faith; confidence

• foy

• fïance (occasional scholarly form)

From the verb fier +‎ -ance or from Latin fidentia.

fiance f (oblique plural fiances, nominative singular fiance, nominative plural fiances)

1. faith; confidence
   • circa 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland:

     En tels vassals deit hom aveir fiance !

     In such knights a man must have confidence!

• foi