Old French

Alternative forms

• traitre (diaereses are not universally used in transcriptions of Old French)

Noun

traïtre m

1. nominative singular of traïtor

Usage notes

• Diaereses are used by some, but not all scholars, to show that two or more vowels do not constitute a diphthong or triphthong. See Appendix:Old French spellings for more information.