Huguenot

Huguenot
noun /ˈhju.ɡən.ɒt/
A member of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th century.

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  • huguenot — huguenot, ote (hu ghe no, no t ) s. m. et f. Sobriquet que les catholiques de France donnèrent autrefois aux calvinistes. •   L autre jour, touchant cette affaire, Le chevalier de Silleri, En parlant de ce pape ci [qui tenait le parti des… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • huguenot — huguenot, ote [ yg(ə)no, ɔt ] n. et adj. • 1550; eyguenet 1520; altér. all. Eidgenossen « confédérés » (nom des Genevois partisans de la confédération contre le duc de Savoie) 1 ♦ Surnom (péjoratif à l origine) donné par les catholiques aux… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • *huguenot — ● huguenot, huguenote nom (allemand Eidgenosse, confédéré, qui fut déformé en eiguenotz et qui désignait, au XVIe s., les réformés de Genève) Nom donné aux protestants français pendant les guerres de Religion. ● huguenot, huguenote (synonymes)… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • Huguenot — Hu gue*not, n. [F., properly a dim. of Hugues. The name is probably derived from the Christian name (Huguenot) of some person conspicuous as a reformer.] (Eccl. Hist.) A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Huguenot — 1562, from M.Fr. Huguenot, according to French sources originally political, not religious. The name was applied in 1520s to Genevan partisans opposed to the Duke of Savoy (who joined Geneva to the Swiss Confederation), and it is probably an… …   Etymology dictionary

  • Huguenot — Diminutif de Hugues, porté surtout en Bourgogne et en Franche Comté. Matronyme : Huguenotte. Formes voisines dans le même secteur géographique : Huguenard, Huguenel, Huguenet, Hugueney, Huguenin, Hugueniot. Egalement Huguenaud dans l Ouest …   Noms de famille

  • Huguenot — ► NOUN ▪ a French Protestant of the 16th 17th centuries. ORIGIN French, alternative (by association with the name of a mayor of Geneva, Besançon Hugues) of eiguenot, from Swiss German Eidgenoss confederate …   English terms dictionary

  • Huguenot — [hyo͞o′gə nät΄] n. [MFr, orig., supporter of group in Geneva opposing annexation to Savoy: altered (after Hugues Besançon, leader of the group) < earlier eidgnot < Ger eidgenosse, a confederate, ally: name later applied to Protestants in… …   English World dictionary

  • Huguenot — The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France (or French Calvinists) from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. =Etymology= Used originally as a term of derision, the derivation of the name Huguenot remains uncertain …   Wikipedia

  • Huguenot — Le terme huguenot est l ancienne appellation donnée par leurs ennemis aux protestants français pendant les guerres de religion. À partir du XVIIe siècle, les huguenots seront appelés religionnaires, car les actes royaux employaient le terme… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Huguenot — Huguenotic, adj. Huguenotism, n. /hyooh geuh not / or, often, /yooh /, n. a member of the Reformed or Calvinistic communion of France in the 16th and 17th centuries; a French Protestant. [1555 65; < F, perh. b. Hugues (name of a political leader… …   Universalium

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