Unadapted borrowing fromFrenchentente(“understanding”).Doublet ofintent.
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entente (pluralententes)
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From the verbentendre, fromMiddle Frenchentendre andOld Frenchentendre, fromLatinintendere(“to turn one’s attention, to strain”). Alternatively, fromLatinintenta; perhaps through a substantivizedVulgar Latin past participle*intendita, as a variant ofintenta (cf.intenditus). See alsotente.
FromDutchentente, fromFrenchentente(“understanding”).
ententeorèntèntê
