fiance. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

fiancé

SYLLABICATION:	fi·an·cé
PRONUNCIATION:	fän-s, f-äns
NOUN:	A man to whom a woman is engaged to be married.
ETYMOLOGY:	French, from past participle of fiancer, to betroth, from Old French fiancier, from fiance, trust, from fier, to trust, from Vulgar Latin ^*fdre, from Latin fdere. See bheidh- in Appendix I.


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