patrimoine
French, noun/pa.tʁi.mwan/
patrimoine is spelled P-A-T-R-I-M-O-I-N-E (10 letters) and appears 47 times per million words in written French, the 1,772nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Patrimoine is a French masculine noun meaning “patrimony, estate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Biens qu’une personne a hérité de son père ou de sa mère. Se dit en particulier pour les distinguer des…”.
What does patrimoine mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepatrimony, estate
- 2
masculineheritage
- 3
masculinecapital, holdings
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Biens qu’une personne a hérité de son père ou de sa mère. Se dit en particulier pour les distinguer des acquêts. 2. Bien transmis commun à une société, une communauté. 3. Ensemble de droits, d'obligations et de biens possédés par un individu.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of patrimoine
- patrimoines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce patrimoine?
- /pa.tʁi.mwan/
- \pa.tʁi.mwan\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to patrimoine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is patrimoine in French?
patrimoine appears 47 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).