truchement

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French truchement, from Old French drugement, borrowed from Arabic تُرْجُمَان (turjumān) during the crusades.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʁyʃ.mɑ̃/

Noun

truchement m (plural truchements)

(literary) interpreter, translator
Synonym: interprète
(literary) spokesperson
Synonym: porte-parole
(literary) intermediary
- 1831, Honoré de Balzac, Le Chef-d'œuvre inconnu, Part 1:
  La Forme est, dans ses figures, ce qu’elle est chez nous, un truchement pour se communiquer des idées, des sensations, une vaste poésie.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

“truchement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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