defaute

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === defaut, defawt, defauȝte, defauȝt, defaulte, default, defalte, defalt, diffaute, diffaught === Etymology === Borrowed from Old French defaute. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /dɛːˈfau̯t(ə)/ === Noun === defaute (plural defautes) lack, absence c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1440–1450 in Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 16, folio 130r: failure to do something absence, failure to appear somewhere, especially (law) failure to appear in court lieu, stead, place need, poverty defect, blemish, flaw mistake, error crime, sin, wrong act fault, guilt, culpability, responsibility for something bad eclipse (of the sun) wane (of the moon) ebb (of the sea) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== English: default ==== References ==== “dēfaut(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 November 2023. == Old French == === Noun === defaute oblique singular, f (oblique plural defautes, nominative singular defaute, nominative plural defautes) lack; absence ==== Descendants ==== French: défaut→ Turkish: defo → Middle English: defauteEnglish: default === References === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “defaute”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.