demoiselle
French
noun
Definitions
- damsel, maiden
- miss
- damselfly
Etymology
Inherited from Old French damoisele inherited from Latin *domnicella, domina (mistress, lady, mistress of the house, mistress of an estate household).
Origin
Latin
domina
Gloss
mistress, lady, mistress of the house, mistress of an estate household
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
婦
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- demoiselle English
- domina English
- doncella English
- donzella English
- mademoiselle English
- *domnicella Latin
- domina Latin
- domna Latin
- damigella Italian
- donzella Italian
- dame French
- donzelle French
- ma French
- mademoiselle French
- дама Russian
- мадемуазель Russian
- мадмуазель Russian
- Doña Spanish, Castilian
- damisela Spanish, Castilian
- doncella Spanish, Castilian
- doña Spanish, Castilian
- *demh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *dṓm Proto-Indo-European
- dame Norwegian Bokmål
- donzela Portuguese
- dame Norwegian Nynorsk
- dameisele Middle English
- dame Old French
- damoisele Old French
- donicela Galician
- donselya Cebuano
- d'mouaîselle Norman
- donzelle Norman
- donezỹa Old Portuguese
- donzela Old Portuguese
- donçela Old Occitan
- dònna Ligurian
- dona Dalmatian
- daime Bourguignon
- daimoizâle Bourguignon
- mamzelle Louisiana Creole French
- danme Picard