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-anée
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-anee
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Suffix
fr -ané -aneous
fr méditerranée mediterraneous
Usage notes
In modern French, only words descending from Latin borrowings of Greek origin ending in the suffixes la -ēus borrowing/la -ēum borrowing, la -aeus/la -aeum (and exceptionally la -ius/la -ium, as in fr élysée/fr Élysée) are written with fr -ée in the masculine.
Words descending from Latin words in la -āneus are now written with the ending fr -ané. The first four editions of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française spelled these words with fr -anée before adopting the current spelling in the fifth edition.
Etymology 2
Suffix
fr adjective form
fr -ané