widow

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A person whose spouse is absent:
2. (uncommon) A person whose spouse is absent:
3. (broadly, humorous, in-compounds, informal, often, sarcastic) A person whose spouse is absent:
4. An additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder.
5. A single line of type that ends a paragraph but is separated from it by being carried over to the next page or column.
6. Any venomous spider of the genus Latrodectus (called "widows" because of the practice of sexual cannibalism observed among many of these species).

Verb

1. (transitive) To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To strip of anything valued.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a widow's right.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To be widow to.

Concepts

veuve

veuf

rendre veuf

veuvier

veuf|veuve

ligne veuve

Opposé de

orphan

Synonymes

widower

dowager

widow woman

single

spinster

widowed

widowhood

relict

orphan

make

matron

only

render

separated

alone

surviving wife

survivors

unmarried

widow bird

bachelor

bereave

unmarried man

widowman

whidah

whydah

bereaved person

become widowed

dame

champagne

🍾

divorced person

grass widow

lay

Traductions

Witwe

viuda

vedova

weduwe

viúva

χήρα

vidua

viudo

vedovo

vidu

Witwer

vídua

أرملة

ارملة

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈwɪd.əʊ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: widwe

Hérité de ancien anglais: widuwe

Appartenant à ancien anglais: widu

Appartenant à allemand: Witwe

Appartenant à néerlandais: weduwe

Appartenant à gotique: 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉

Appartenant à ancien irlandais: fedb

Appartenant à latin: vidua

Appartenant à slavon d’église: въдова

Appartenant à sanskrit: विधवा

Appartenant à persan: بیوه

In summary

PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English widwe, from Old English widuwe, from Proto-West Germanic *widuwā, from Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂, possibly from *h₁weydʰh₁-, *widʰ- (“to separate, split, cleave, divide”), whence also wood from Old English widu, wudu.
Cognates include German Witwe, Dutch weduwe, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉 (widuwō), Old Irish fedb, Latin vidua, Old Church Slavonic въдова (vŭdova), Sanskrit विधवा (vidhavā) and Persian بیوه (bive, bêva), Middle Persian wēwag, Avestan viðavā- "widow" .

Phrases

His widow , Sahana Pradhan , took over the leadership of the party .

Sa veuve, Sahana Pradhan, a repris la direction du parti.

He is survived by his widow , Lady Skeet , who resides in Milton Ernest , Bedfordshire .

Il laisse dans le deuil sa veuve, Lady Skeet, qui réside à Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire.