The story
- Old French · derived fromma dame“my lady”
- French · borrowed frommadame
- English todaymadame
Borrowed from French madame, from Old French ma dame (“my lady”). Doublet of madam and Madonna.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
madame
Today it means: A title equivalent to Mrs. or Ms., used for French-speaking women and (by custom) certain other individuals. It is abbreviated as Mme. Full definition →
French madame ← Old French ma dame