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potius mori quam fœdari

French

potius mori quam fœdari is spelled P-O-T-I-U-S-M-O-R-I-Q-U-A-M-F-Œ-D-A-R-I (20 letters). Potius mori quam fœdari is a French phrase. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plutôt mourir que faillir, devise des ducs de Bretagne”; the English Wiktionary has no entry for it yet.

How French dictionaries define it

phrase: 1. Plutôt mourir que faillir, devise des ducs de Bretagne.

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.

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