provoire

Old French

Alternative forms

• prevoire, preveire

Etymology

From earlier prevoire, from Vulgar Latin *previterum, *prebiterum, from Latin presbyterum, accusative of presbyter (cf. the synonym prestre derived from the nominative form). Compare Occitan preveire.

Noun

provoire oblique singular, m (oblique plural provoires, nominative singular provoires, nominative plural provoire)

1. priest

Usage notes

According to some sources, prestre and provoire were once inflected forms of the same word. Even so, the two rarely appear in texts together.

Synonyms

• (more common) prestre

Descendants

• Middle French: prouvaire