abîme

French

noun
Definitions
  • abyss, chasm
  • bottom of a chasm or valley
  • (literary) infiniteness of thought
  • (literary) superlative used with various abstraction and qualities; the climax or acme
  • (literary) hell
  • (heraldry) abyss of a shield, fess point

Etymology

Inherited from Old French abisme inherited from Latin *abyssimus, abyssus (bottomless pit, a bottomless gulf, abyss).

Origin

Latin

abyssus

Gloss

bottomless pit, a bottomless gulf, abyss

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