cointe

Old French

Alternative forms

coynte
cuente
cuinte
kointe

quaint
quainte
quaynt
queint

queinte
quente
quint
quointe

Etymology

Latin cognitus.

Adjective

cointe m (oblique and nominative feminine singular cointe)

clever; intelligent

Descendants

English: quaint (borrowed)

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (cointe)

cointe on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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