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French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old French esté, from Latin aestātem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (“burn; fire”).
Noun
été m (plural étés)
- summer
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Etymology 2
Inherited from Old French esté, past participle of ester (“to stand, to be (stative)”) (which was conflated with estre in Old French); from Latin stātus, past participle of stāre (“to stand”). Compare also the noun état.
Participle
été (intransitive, hence invariable)
- past participle of être
1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.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.- He tried to accommodate that would designate what he had been before entering into knight-errantry, and what he was currently.
- (Louisiana) past participle of aller
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