different between fiance vs ceramics

English

Etymology

From French fiancé. The verb is from fiancer.

Noun

fiance (plural fiances)

1. Alternative spelling of fiancé

Verb

fiance (third-person singular simple present fiances, present participle fiancing, simple past and past participle fianced)

1. (obsolete) To betroth; to affiance.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Harmar to this entry?)

   • 1993 Cindy Holbrook, A Daring Deception, page 91

     he should become so lusty over a lady of such questionable motives? He was fianced, after all. Perhaps that was it. Since his engagement, he had abstained from any liaisons, feeling it was only proper in a man soon to be married

Anagrams

• fancie

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fj??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Etymology 1

From Middle French fiance, from Old French fiance, from fier +? -ance.

Noun

fiance f (plural fiances)

1. (obsolete) faith; confidence

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

fiance

1. first-person singular present indicative of fiancer
2. third-person singular present indicative of fiancer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of fiancer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of fiancer
5. second-person singular imperative of fiancer

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French < fier +? -ance or Latin fidentia.

Noun

fiance f (plural fiances)

1. faith; confidence

Synonyms

• foy

Old French

Alternative forms

• fïance (occasional scholarly form)

Etymology

From the verb fier +? -ance or from Latin fidentia.

Noun

fiance f (oblique plural fiances, nominative singular fiance, nominative plural fiances)

1. faith; confidence

Synonyms

• foi

English

Noun

ceramics

1. plural of ceramic

Noun

ceramics pl (plural only)

1. the art or science of making ceramic objects
2. ceramic objects as a group

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