compagnon – French noun declension

Noun: compagnon
Gender: m Hyphenation:

Singular m	compagnon
Singular f	compagne
Plural m	compagnons

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like compagnon

compagnon, dindon,

Etymology

Inherited from Old French compaignon, from Late Latin compāniōnem (literally “he with whom one shares one's bread”) (compare Italian compagnone, Spanish compañón), from com- (“with”) + pānis (“bread”), first attested in the Frankish Lex Salica as a calque of a Germanic word represented by Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌰 (gahlaiba, “messmate”) from 𐌲𐌰- (ga-, “with”) + 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍆𐍃 (hlaifs, “bread”), Old High German galeipo, itself from Proto-Germanic *ga- (“togetherness”) + *hlaibaz (“loaf, bread”). Compare with the etymologically related terms copain and compagnie. More at co-, loaf. See: Italian Nouns 'compagnone', Spanish Nouns 'compañón', Gothic Nouns '𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌰'.

Verbs referencing "compagnon"

English Nouns companion, Romanian Nouns companion, Finnish Nouns kumppani, German Nouns Kompagnon, Dutch Nouns compagnon, Danish Nouns kompagnon, Swedish Nouns kompanjon, Portuguese Nouns companha, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns kompanjong, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns kompanjong, Galician Nouns compaña.

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