Noun: patois
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Depuis, deux puissants romanciers, dont l’un est un profond observateur du cœur humain, l’autre un intrépide ami du peuple, Balzac et Eugène Süe, ayant fait parler des bandits dans leur langue naturelle comme l’avait fait en 1828 l’auteur du Dernier jour d’un condamné, les mêmes réclamations se sont élevées. On a répété : — Que nous veulent les écrivains avec ce révoltant patois ? l’argot est odieux ! l’argot fait frémir ! (After two powerful novelists, one a deep observer of the human soul, the other an adventurous friend of the people, Balzac and Eugene Sue, made their bandit characters speak in their natural language just as the author of The Last Day of a Condemned Man had done in 1828, the same complaints were raised. Some said again and again, "What do these writers want to do to us with this disgusting dialect? The slang is terrible! The slang makes anyone shiver!) [1862, Victor Hugo, Les Miserables Part 4, book 7, chapter 1]
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Né provençal, il s’était facilement familiarisé avec tous les patois du midi. Il disait : — Eh bé ! moussu, sès sagé ? comme dans le bas Languedoc. — Onté anaras passa ? comme dans les basses Alpes. — Puerte un bouen moutou embe un bouen froumage grase, comme dans le haut Dauphiné. Ceci plaisait beaucoup au peuple et n’avait pas peu contribué à lui donner accès près de tous les esprits. Il était dans la chaumière et dans la montagne comme chez lui. Il savait dire les choses les plus grandes dans les idiomes les plus vulgaires. Parlant toutes les langues, il entrait dans toutes les âmes.
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(Describing Bishop Myriel) Having been born in Provence, he easily became familiarized with all the [Occitan] dialects of the South. He would say, Eh bé! moussu, sès sagé?, as in the lower Languedoc, and Onté anaras passa? as in the Alps' lowlands, and Puerte un bouen moutou embe un bouen froumage grase, as in the upper Dauphiny. People loved this, and it had helped him greatly to get close access to all kinds of temperaments. Whether he was in a cottage or up in a mountain, he would feel at home. He knew how to speak of the highest things using the lowliest vulgar expressions. By speaking every tongue, he entered every soul. [1862, Victor Hugo, Les Miserables Part 1, book 1, chapter 4]
Nouns inflected like patois
droit de cuissage,
diméthylmercure,
ice tea,
ekamanganèse,
sativa,
Androphages,
scalap,
schuss,
aminométhane,
développement personnel,
sucre farine,
slavon,
soulas,
souabe,
sorabe,
somali,
soccer,
sodium,
javanais,
as des as, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French patois (“local dialect”), from Old French patois (“incomprehensible speech, rude language”), alteration (due to influence of the suffix -ois in words relating to nationalities and languages) of earlier *patoi, a deverbal of patoier (“to gesticulate, handle clumsily, paw”), from pate (“paw”), from Vulgar Latin *patta (“paw, foot”), from Frankish *patta (“paw, sole of the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *pat-, *paþa- (“to walk, tread, go, step”), of uncertain origin and relation. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pent-/*(s)pat- (“path; to walk”), a variant of *pent-/*pat- (“path; to go”). Cognate with Dutch pat, Low German pedden (“to step, tread”). Related to pad, path. See: Dutch Nouns '
pat'.
Verbs referencing "patois"
English Nouns
patois, Italian Nouns
patois, Catalan Nouns
patuès.
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