tresque
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Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Univerbation of trés + que.
Preposition
[edit]tresque
- up to, until, as far as
- Synonym: jusque
- c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland[1], lines 1–3:
- Carles li reis, nostre emper[er]e magnes / Set anz tuz pleins ad estet en Espaigne: / Tresqu'en la mer cunquist la tere altaigne.
- Charlemagne the king, our emperor, has been seven whole years in Spain: conquering the highland all the way to the sea.