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Middle English
Noun
compaignie
- Alternative form of companye
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French compaignie.
Noun
compaignie f (plural compaignies)
- company (state of being with other people)
- (somewhat euphemistic) company (sexual liaison)
- company (group of knights, approximately equivalent to a modern military company)
Descendants
- French: compagnie (see there for further descendants)
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (compagnie, supplement)