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devise.

motto

6 characters3 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/də.viz/

  1. motto

    feminine

  2. assets in foreign currency

    feminine

  3. currency

    broadly · feminine
Where this word comes from

From Old French devise (“division, separation; heraldic band, emblem”), from deviser. The financial sense is a semantic loan from German Devise. Compare divisa in the other Romance languages.

verb/də.viz/

  1. inflection of deviser: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

    first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular · subjunctive · third-person

  2. inflection of deviser: second-person singular imperative

    form-of · imperative · second-person · singular
Where this word comes from

From Old French devise (“division, separation; heraldic band, emblem”), from deviser. The financial sense is a semantic loan from German Devise. Compare divisa in the other Romance languages.

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