fleche

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See also: fleché, fléché, flèche, and Flèche

English

Noun

fleche (plural fleches)

  1. Alternative spelling of flèche

Verb

fleche (third-person singular simple present fleches, present participle fleching, simple past and past participle fleched)

  1. Alternative spelling of flèche

Anagrams

Middle French

Etymology

    From Old French fleche, from Vulgar Latin *fleccia, borrowed from Frankish *fliukkijā, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, from *plew-.

    Noun

    fleche f (plural fleches)

    1. arrow (projectile fired by a bow)

    Descendants

    • French: flèche
      • Dutch: flits
      • English: flèche

    Old French

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

      From Vulgar Latin *fleccia, borrowed from Frankish *fliukkijā, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, from *plew-.

      Noun

      fleche oblique singularf (oblique plural fleches, nominative singular fleche, nominative plural fleches)

      1. arrow (projectile fired by a bow)

      Synonyms

      Descendants

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      References

      1. ^ Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “frèčča”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
      2. ^ Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “vlieke”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page vlieke

      Spanish

      Verb

      fleche

      1. inflection of flechar:
        1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
        2. third-person singular imperative