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Re:Show HN: Desbordante 2.0.0 Released by BrandoElFollito on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @02:24PM (#40068382)
Desbordante is not a French word.

If you remove the s you get debordante which is still not French but adding an é makes débordante - yay, a French word :)

Débordante is a feminine adjective and indeed means "that is overflowing", often metaphorically.

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Re:Show HN: Desbordante 2.0.0 Released by jszymborski on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @08:15PM (#40071584)
My mistake, I checked larousse but my eye glossed over the "s" evidently.
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Re:Show HN: Desbordante 2.0.0 Released by BrandoElFollito on Thursday April 18, 2024 @03:32AM (#40073857)
Kudos to you for reaching to one of the best sources!

Interestingly enough, the construction "es" used to be present in older French (until ca. XVIII century) and then it transformed into "é". There are more of such transformations where a vowel + "s" changed into something else. A well-known one is os->ô like in hospital->hôpital (and the "os" is still visible in "hospitalité")

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