French

Noun

viande f ‎(plural viandes)

1. meat
   • 1869, Charles Baudelaire , Petits poèmes en prose

     À voir les enfers dont le monde est peuplé, que voulez-vous que je pense de votre joli enfer, vous qui ne reposez que sur des étoffes aussi douces que votre peau, qui ne mangez que de la viande cuite, et pour qui un domestique habile prend soin de découper les morceaux ?

     Seeing the hells with which the world abounds, what do you expect me to think of your pretty little ****, you who lie on stuffs as soft as your own skin, who eat only cooked meat carefully cut for you by a skilled servant?

2. (obsolete) food
   • 1534, François Rabelais , Gargantua

     Car notez que c’est viande celeste manger à desjeuner raisins avec fouace fraiche.

     For here it is to be remarked, that it is a celestial food to eat for breakfast hot fresh cakes with grapes.

3. (sexuality) an object of sexual desire; a piece of meat

Synonyms

• (meat): (France, slang) barbaque, bidoche

Anagrams

• devina

Latin

Participle

viande

1. vocative masculine singular of viandus

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French viande.

Noun

viande f (plural viandes)

1. food; nourishment
2. (16th century onwards) meat (edible flesh of an animal)

Usage notes

• See Old French viande below.

Descendants

• French: viande

References

• viande on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (in French)
• (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (viande, supplement)

Norman

Alternative forms

• viànde (Guernsey)
• vyãd (Sark)

Etymology

From Old French viande, from Late Latin *vīvanda, alteration of Latin vīvenda, from the neuter plural form of vīvendus ‎(“which is to be lived”), future passive participle of vīvō, vīvere ‎(“live”, verb).

Pronunciation

Noun

viande f ‎(plural viandes)

1. (Jersey) meat

Derived terms

• viande dé vaque ‎(“beef”)
• viande au fou ‎(“roast meat”)

Old French

Alternative forms

• vïande (diaereses not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

Etymology

From Late Latin *vīvanda, alteration of Latin vīvenda, from the neuter plural form of vīvendus ‎(“which is to be lived”), future passive participle of vīvō, vīvere ‎(“live”, verb).

Noun

viande f ‎(oblique plural viandes, nominative singular viande, nominative plural viandes)

1. food (anything which when ingested into the digestive system provides nutrition for the body)

Usage notes

• Not used to mean 'meat' until the 16th century^[1].

Descendants

• English: viand (borrowed)
• Middle French: viande
  • French: viande
• Norman: viande, viànde

References

• (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (viande, supplement)
• viande on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

1. ↑ Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion, page 151, part of the 'philological and grammatical commentary' by André Esékénazi. ISBN 9782038700312