köken: From Middle High German versprechen (“to guarantee”), from Old High German firsprehhan (“to defend verbally, to warrant”), from Proto-West Germanic *frasprekan. Analyzable as ver- + sprechen. The sense “to misspeak” is a later transparent derivation (see the prefix).
köken: Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin prōmissa (“promise”), from Latin prōmissum (“promise”), from promittō (“to send forth; to promise”).
manquer à sa promesse
Une promesse partiellement tenue est une promesse entièrement trahie.
Je fais la promesse de ne plus croire en ce qui me ment / Ne plus me nier dans ma souffrance
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *prōmissa (“promise”) (attested in Medieval Latin per Du Cange), from Latin prōmissum (“promise”), from promittō (“to send forth; to promise”).
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese promessa, from Medieval Latin, Vulgar Latin prōmissa (“promise”), from Latin prōmissum (“promise”), from promittō (“to send forth; to promise”).