dénouement
French
noun
Definitions
- outcome
- (theater) dénouement
Etymology
Suffix from French dénouer inherited from Middle French desnouement derived from Latin nōdus (bond, a knot, knob).
Origin
Latin
nōdus
Gloss
bond, a knot, knob
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dénouement English
- node English
- nodosus Latin
- nodulus Latin
- nōdus Latin
- nodo Italian
- dénouer French
- nouer French
- nodo Spanish, Castilian
- *gned- Proto-Indo-European
- *gnod- Proto-Indo-European
- nodo Portuguese
- node Middle English
- neu Old French
- noadă Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- nod Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- nyjë Albanian
- desnouement Middle French
- desnouer Middle French
- noo Old Portuguese
- nod Aromanian
- nous Old Occitan