"brèche" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [French]

IPA: /bʁɛʃ/ Audio: Fr-brèche.ogg , LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-brèche.wav [France, Toulouse], LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-brèche.wav [France, Vosges], LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-brèche.wav [France, Vosges] Forms: brèches [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛʃ Etymology: Inherited from Middle French breche, bresche, from Old French breche, bresche (“a breach, an opening, crack”), from Frankish *breka (“a breach, break”), from Proto-Germanic *brekō (“a breaking, breach, fallow ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break, crack”). Cognate with Old High German brecha (“a break”). More at break. Etymology templates: {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|frm|breche|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Middle French breche, {{inh+|fr|frm|breche}} Inherited from Middle French breche, {{inh|fr|fro|breche}} Old French breche, {{der|fr|frk|*breku|*breka|t=a breach, break}} Frankish *breka (“a breach, break”), {{der|fr|gem-pro|*brekō||a breaking, breach, fallow ground}} Proto-Germanic *brekō (“a breaking, breach, fallow ground”), {{der|fr|ine-pro|*bʰreg-||to break, crack}} Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break, crack”), {{cog|goh|brecha||a break}} Old High German brecha (“a break”) Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} brèche f (plural brèches)
  1. gap, hole Tags: feminine Coordinate_terms: fissure, fêlure
    Sense id: en-brèche-fr-noun-pEOqmnj9
  2. (military) breach Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-brèche-fr-noun-LgL9Obhl Categories (other): Military, French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 17 83 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 17 83 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 92 Topics: government, military, politics, war
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: battre en brèche

Inflected forms

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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.