Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 9:37 pm
Larousse.fr spell that with a trailing 'e', voire. Would that perhaps be a later spelling change to differentiate the two?Dragon27 wrote:DaveAgain wrote:voir dire - questioning
- My dictionary mentions that 'voir' used to have a meaning of 'true'.
From Latin vērus, which is the root of words like "verify", "veracious" and "verdict". The latter comes from Medieval Latin veredictum (through the intermediate Anglo-Norman/French verdit, Modern English spelling is influenced by Latin), ultimately containing the exact same roots as the expression in question (voir dire). Another familiar descendant of the Latin vērus is the modifier "very".
The homonymic French verb voir, of course, comes from a different Latin word vidēre.