merlette

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English

Etymology

A merlette in French heraldry

From Late Middle English , from Anglo-Norman merlet (from merle (“blackbird”) + -et (“suffix forming a noun”)), or from Middle French merlette (“little blackbird; merlette (heraldic charge)”) (from merle (“blackbird”)—formerly a feminine noun) + -ette (“diminutive suffix for a feminine noun”).[1] Merle is from Latin merula (“blackbird”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ems- (“black; blackbird”).

Pronunciation

Noun

merlette (plural merlettes)

  1. (heraldry) In French heraldry, a depiction of a mythological bird without beak or feet.

See also

References

  1. ^ “merlette”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Further reading

French

Etymology

From merle +‎ -ette, literally “little blackbird”, the word for the male blackbird being mostly female until the 16th century (a male: "une merle", a little male: "une merlette").[1]

Meaning 2 (hen blackbird) appears in 1839.[2][3]

Pronunciation

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Noun

merlette f (plural merlettes)

  1. (heraldry) the merlette
  2. female blackbird
    Synonym: merlesse

Further reading

  • Trévoux (1771) Dictionnaire universel françois et latin‎
  • Adolphe Hatzfeld, Arsène Darmesteter, Antoine Thomas (1890) Dictionnaire général de la langue française du commencement du XVIIe siècle à nos jours‎
  1. ^ César-Pierre Richelet (1759) Dictionnaire de la langue françoise‎
  2. ^ “merlette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
  3. ^ Louis Barré, Narcisse Landois (1839) Complément du dictionnaire de l’Académie Française‎, Bruxelles: Société typographique belge, Adolphe Wahlen et Cie, page 649
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