tresoun
Middle English
/trɛːˈzuːn/
noun
Definitions
- Betrayal; aiding one's enemies or rivals:
- Deception, fraudulence, lying; especially when severe or harmful:
- Disobedience; refusal to obey or listen to authorities often religious
- Maliciousness, iniquity; wrong or malicious behaviour or actions, or an example of them.
Etymology
Borrowed from treson derived from Latin trāditiō (teaching).
Origin
Latin
trāditiō
Gloss
teaching
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- treason English
- treasonable English
- treasonist English
- treasonous English
- dō Latin
- trāditiō Latin
- trāditiōnem Latin
- Tradition German
- traición Spanish, Castilian
- *deh₃- Proto-Indo-European
- tradicional Portuguese
- tresounen Middle English
- tréas Irish
- tradicion Old French
- traison, traïson Old French
- traïson Old French
- tradicion Occitan
- treson xno