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
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- abysm English
- abysmal English
- abysmic English
- abyssus English
- *abyssimus Latin
- abyssalis Latin
- abyssus Latin
- abisso Italian
- abysse French
- abisal Spanish, Castilian
- abismal Spanish, Castilian
- abismo Spanish, Castilian
- ἄβυσσος Ancient Greek
- ἄβῠσσος Ancient Greek
- ἄβῠσσος, ἄβυσσος Ancient Greek
- abismo Portuguese
- abime Middle English
- abissus Middle English
- abisme Old French
- abis Old Irish