fleche

== English == === Noun === fleche (plural fleches) Alternative spelling of flèche. === Verb === fleche (third-person singular simple present fleches, present participle fleching, simple past and past participle fleched) Alternative spelling of flèche. === Anagrams === fleech == Middle French == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French fleche. === Noun === fleche f (plural fleches) arrow (projectile fired by a bow) ==== Descendants ==== French: flèche→ Dutch: flits→ Middle Low German: flitse [16th c.]→ German: Flitz→ English: flèche == Old French == === Alternative forms === flecche, fleke === Etymology === Inherited from Vulgar Latin *fleccia. === Noun === fleche oblique singular, f (oblique plural fleches, nominative singular fleche, nominative plural fleches) arrow (projectile fired by a bow) ==== Synonyms ==== saete ==== Descendants ==== Middle French: fleche French: flèche (see there for further descendants) Picard: flèche (Athois) Walloon: flèche (Forrières) Borrowings: === References === Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*fliukka”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 15/2: Germanismes: Bu–F, page 146 == Spanish == === Verb === fleche inflection of flechar: first/third-person singular present subjunctive third-person singular imperative