été

See also: ete, -ete, and -eté

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /e.te/
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Etymology 1

From Old French esté, from Latin aestās, aestātem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“burn; fire”).

Noun

été m (plural étés)

summer

See also

Seasons in French · saisons (layout · text)
printemps (“spring”)	été (“summer”)	automne (“autumn”)	hiver (“winter”)

Etymology 2

From Latin stātus, past participle of stō (which was conflated with sum in Old French). Compare also the noun état.

Verb

été (intransitive, hence invariable)

past participle of être
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche‎^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
  Aussi essayait-il [d']accommoder [un nom à con cheval] qui désignât ce qu’il avait été avant d’entrer dans la chevalerie errante, et ce qu’il était alors.
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  He tried to accommodate [a name for his horse] that would designate what he had been before entering into knight-errantry, and what he was currently.
(Louisiana) past participle of aller

Further reading

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

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