esprit
French
noun
Definitions
- immaterial or incorporeal substance
- disembodied mind
- mind (in the wide sense)
- mind (as principle of thought)
- specific mind aptitude
- high mind aptitude
- deep intention, sense, or purpose (of a text, action, attitude...); philosophy (in figurative sense)
- (metonymy) human being, as possessing abilities of mind
- (old) volatile fluid ; (in particular) alcohol
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French esperit borrowed from Latin spiritus (breath, air).
Origin
Latin
spiritus
Gloss
breath, air
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
気
Emoji
🫁
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- esprit English
- spirit English
- spiritus English
- spiritualis Latin
- spiritus Latin
- spīritus Latin
- spīrituālis Latin
- spīrō Latin
- Esprit German
- Sprit German
- spritig German
- spirito Italian
- de French
- esprit-de-vin French
- vin French
- espíritu Spanish, Castilian
- *(s)peys- Proto-Indo-European
- *speis- Proto-Indo-European
- sprit Norwegian Bokmål
- sprit Norwegian Nynorsk
- sprit Danish
- spritbilist Danish
- spiritus Czech
- espirit Old French
- esprit Old French
- spritt Icelandic
- spíri Icelandic
- spiriduș Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- spirit Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- spirut Old Irish
- shpirt Albanian
- esperit Middle French
- espirito Old Portuguese
- spiert Romansh
- spért Romansh
- espíritu Asturian
- spirt Friulian
- esperit Old Occitan
- spìritu Sicilian
- lespri Mauritian Creole
- *spïrïd Proto-Brythonic
- spiert Ladin
- spirt Ladin
- ispìritu Sardinian