Feminine
charité
Concepts
benignance
Christian love of fellow men
Jacob’s ladder
mercy and love
giving alms
charitable institution
Greek valerian
Polemonium caeruleum
Polemonium van-bruntiae
Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae
Synonyms
oeuvre de bienfaisance
philantropie
amour de l’humanité
nourriture distribuée aux mendiants
polemonium caeruleum
polémoine bleue
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃa.ʁi.te/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Old French charité, carité, borrowing from or francization of Latin cāritātem (“love, regard”), from cārus (“dear”) (whence French cher), from Proto-Italic *kāros (“dear”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂-. Doublet of cherté.
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