État

See also: Etat, état, êtat, and etât

French

Alternative forms

état
Etat

Noun

État m (plural États)

state, nation
government
Alternative letter-case form of état

Usage notes

In older French practice, capital letters did not take diacritics, so É becomes E. This was mostly done because of technical constraints. Formal orthotypography maintains the diacritics.

Further reading

“État” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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