pucelle – French noun declension

French noun forms of pucelle

Noun: pucelle
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular mpuceau
Singular fpucelle
Plural fpucelles

Sample Sentences

  • Elle n'est plus pucelle. (She's no longer a virgin.)
  • la Pucelle d'Orléans (the Maiden of Orleans, Joan of Arc)
  • Qu'elle soit fille honnête / Ou fille de rien / Qu'elle soit pucelle / Ou qu'elle soit putain / On se souvient d'elle / On s'en souviendra / La première fille / Qu'on a pris dans ses bras (Whether she is a respectable girl / Or a worthless girl / Whether she is a virgin / Or she is a whore / You remember her / You will remember / The first girl / Who you held in your arms) [1954, Georges Brassens, “La première fille”:]

Nouns inflected like pucelle

chamelle, éléphantelle, velle, maquerelle, pucelle,

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French pucelle < Old French pucele, first attested in the 10th century as pulcella, from Vulgar Latin *pūllicella, of disputed origin. Possibly a diminutive of Latin pullus (“young of animals, chick”), or pullus as a contraction of *purulus, from purus (“pure”). Alternatively from Latin puella (“girl”) through a Vulgar Latin root *puellicella.

Verbs referencing "pucelle"

English Nouns puzzel, Catalan Nouns poncella.

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