quaintrelle

Significat (Anglès)

A woman who is focused on style and leisurely pastimes.

Conceptes

encanteri

Sinònims

curse

philter

speech

Traduccions

Zauberspruch

toverspreuk

Amb guionet com a

quain‧trelle

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/kweɪnˈtɹɛl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Borrowed from Late Middle English queintrelle, queyntrelle (“person of fashion”), from Middle French cointerelle, from Middle French cointerel (“vain”) + -elle, -ele (suffix forming feminine diminutive nouns), possibly influenced by quaint. Cointerel is derived from cointe (“clever, intelligent; quaint”), from Latin cognitus (“known, recognized; acknowledged, noted”), the perfect passive participle of cōgnōscō (“to be acquainted (with), recognize; to learn; to know”), from con- (prefix meaning ‘with’) + (g)nōscō (“to know, recognize”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”) + *-sḱéti (suffix forming durative or iterative imperfective verbs from roots)).