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/pʁi.zɔ.nje/
Translation
prisoner, captive
Word origin
From prison plus the suffix -ier. Prison comes through Old French from Latin prehensionem ('a seizing, a taking'), from prehendere ('to seize').
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- prehensionem
- English cognates
- prison, prisoner, apprehend
Grammar
Examples
établissement.
The prisoner was moved to another facility.
cet -.
Two thousand prisoners of war were freed that summer.
.
The warders count the prisoners twice a day.
prisonnière .
She felt like a prisoner of her own routine.
' évadé .
A prisoner escaped during the night.
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