bataille

See also: bataillé

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French bataille, from Old French bataille, from Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia, from Latin battuō, of Gaulish origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.taj/ ~ /ba.tɑj/

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Noun

bataille f (plural batailles)

1. battle

   Coordinate term: guerre

   bataille navale ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   bataille rangée ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   champ de bataille ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   ligne de bataille ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   livrer bataille ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   ordre de bataille ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   bataille d’eau ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   cheval de bataille ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   arriver après la bataille ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. war (card game)

Derived terms

• batailler
  • batailleur
• cheveux en bataille

Related terms

• battre

See also

• lutte

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

bataille (plural batailles)

1. Alternative form of batayle

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French bataille.

Noun

bataille f (plural batailles)

1. battle

Descendants

• French: bataille

Norman

Alternative forms

• batâle (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French bataille, from Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia, from Latin battuō.

Noun

bataille f (plural batailles)

1. (Guernsey) battle

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin battālia, variant of battuālia, from Latin battuō.

Noun

bataille oblique singular, f (oblique plural batailles, nominative singular bataille, nominative plural batailles)

1. battle

Related terms

• batre

Descendants

• Middle French: bataille
  • French: bataille
• Norman: bataille, batâle
• Walloon: batreye
• → Asturian: batalla
• → Middle English: batayle, batel, bataylle, bataille, bataile, bataill, batail, batell, batayll, bateil, baitale
  • English: battle
  • Scots: battle
• → Old Spanish: batalla (or from Old Occitan)
  • Ladino: batalya
  • Spanish: batalla