quaintrelle

Meaning

A woman who is focused on style and leisurely pastimes.

Synonyms

curse

philter

speech

Translations

encanteri

Zauberspruch

toverspreuk

Hyphenated as

quain‧trelle

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kweɪnˈtɹɛl/

Etymology

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)).