Noun: essai
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | essai |
| Plural m | essais |
Sample Sentences
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Il a gagné après plusieurs essais. (He won after numerous tries.)
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Elle a marqué son deuxième essai du match. (She's scored her second try of the match.)
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Un essai est un livre pour faire des livres; il ne peut passer pour bon qu'en raison du nombre de fétus d'ouvrages qu'il renferme. (Chateaubr., Essai Révol., t. 2, 1797)
Nouns inflected like essai
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French, from Old French essai, from Late Latin exagium (“weighing”), hence English assay (compare also Spanish ensayo), from Latin exigō; the original sense of "trial" (if the gold is good) drifted towards a general meaning of "attempt". The literary meaning is given by Michel de Montaigne's masterpiece. See: Spanish Nouns '
ensayo', Latin Nouns '
exigō'.
Verbs referencing "essai"
Spanish Nouns
ensayo, Swedish Nouns
essä, Czech Nouns
esej, Finnish Nouns
essee, Hungarian Nouns
esszé, Romanian Nouns
eseu, Ukrainian Nouns
есей.
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