momentané

== French == === Alternative forms === momentanée m or f (obsolete) === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin mōmentāneus. In modern French, only words descending from Latin borrowings of Greek origin ending in the suffixes -ēus/-ēum, -aeus/-aeum (and exceptionally -ius/-ium, as in élysée/Élysée) are written with -ée in the masculine. Words descending from Latin words in -āneus (a different suffix, from -ānus +‎ -eus), are now written with the ending -ané (as seen, for example, in méditerrané, spontané). The first four editions of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française spelled these words with -anée before adopting the current spelling in the fifth edition. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /mɔ.mɑ̃.ta.ne/ Homophones: momentanée, momentanées, momentanés === Adjective === momentané (feminine momentanée, masculine plural momentanés, feminine plural momentanées) momentary ==== Derived terms ==== momentanément === Further reading === “momentané”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012