venger
French
verb
Definitions
- to avenge, to take revenge (upon)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French venger inherited from Old French vengier inherited from Latin vindicāre.
Origin
Latin
vindicāre
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- revenge English
- revengeable English
- revengeful English
- revengeless English
- revengement English
- revenger English
- revengism English
- vindicāre Latin
- vendicare Italian
- vengeance French
- vengeresse French
- vengeur French
- vengar Spanish, Castilian
- vindicar Spanish, Castilian
- avengier Old French
- vengement Old French
- vengeor Old French
- venger Old French
- vengier Old French
- venjance Old French
- venĝi Esperanto
- vindicar Catalan, Valencian
- vindeca Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- vengi Norman
- revenge Middle French
- venger Middle French
- vengier Middle French
- vingar Old Portuguese
- svindicâ Friulian
- venjar Old Occitan
- vengé Louisiana Creole French