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vécu

/ve.ky/

adjective/ve.ky/

that which is part of a lived experience, real, true

Il y avait un film qui passait à la télévision: une histoire vécue.There was a movie on TV: a true story.

Inherited from Middle French and Old French vescu, derived from the preterite vesqui, itself from a metathesis of Latin vixi, likely influenced by nasqui (“I was born”). See the same development in Occitan and Catalan viscut. Compare also Italian vissuto.

noun, masculine/ve.ky/plural: vécus

experience (what one experiences); inner life

Inherited from Middle French and Old French vescu, derived from the preterite vesqui, itself from a metathesis of Latin vixi, likely influenced by nasqui (“I was born”). See the same development in Occitan and Catalan viscut. Compare also Italian vissuto.

vécu — French Dictionary | Passage