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Écosse

Écosse

See also: Ecosse, écosse, écossé, and Êcosse

French

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Écosse f

  1. Scotland

Related terms

écosse

écosse

See also: Ecosse, écossé, Écosse, and Êcosse

French

Verb

écosse

  1. first-person singular present indicative of écosser
  2. third-person singular present indicative of écosser
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of écosser
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of écosser
  5. second-person singular imperative of écosser

Etymology

From Latin Scotia. Modified where the o is no longer long before early French vowel shifts occurred -- otherwise it would have rendered *Écousse. Alternatively may have been loaned from another Romance language.

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