charité

== French == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French charité, carité, a borrowing from Latin cāritātem (“love, regard”), which see for more. Doublet of cherté. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʃa.ʁi.te/ === Noun === charité f (plural charités) charity ==== Derived terms ==== c'est l'hôpital qui se fout de la charité c'est l'hôpital qui se moque de la charité charité bien ordonnée commence par soi-même === Further reading === “charité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === châtier, cithare == Old French == === Alternative forms === caritet (early Old French) carité, charitei === Etymology === 10th century, borrowed from Latin cāritātem (“love, regard”). Doublet of chierté. The borrowing was probably early enough for the regular development /ka/ > /tʃa/ to take place (cf. chapitre). Alternatively the word may have been artificially adapted to Old French chier, the inherited descendant of Latin cārus. === Noun === charité oblique singular, f (oblique plural charitez, nominative singular charité, nominative plural charitez) charity, love (Christian virtue) charitable institution ==== Descendants ==== French: charité → English: charity === Further reading === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “charité”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.