volage

English

Etymology

From Old French volage, from Latin volāticus.

Adjective

volage (comparative more volage, superlative most volage)

(archaic) Fickle, capricious, reckless.
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Manciple's Prologue and Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales:
  When Phoebus' wife had sent for her leman,
  Anon they wroughten all their lust volage.

Anagrams

lovage

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French volage, from Latin volāticus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vɔ.laʒ/
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Adjective

volage (plural volages)

Further reading

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

Old French

Adjective

volage m (oblique and nominative feminine singular volage)

flying; able to fly

Descendants

→ English: volage
French: volage

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