mobile

Learned borrowing from Latin mōbilis. Doublet of meuble.

téléphone mobile
téléphone mobile#French

mobile phone; ellipsis of téléphone mobile


Luxembourg

→ Japanese: リュクサンブール (Ryukusanbūru)

jardin du Luxembourg
jardin du Luxembourg#French

ellipsis of jardin du Luxembourg (garden in Paris)


finale

En raison de l'alerte rouge canicule du lundi 18 juillet, l'arrêt préfectoral interdisant la pratique du sport en intérieur a amené Gérald Kerscaven, juge-arbitre, à décaler les finales du samedi 23 au dimanche 24 juillet.

2022 July 27, “Au tournoi du Tennis-club Taulé-Plouénan, 119 joueurs et des rencontres de qualité [At the Tennis-Club Taulé-Plouénan Tournament, 119 Players and Quality Matches]”, in Le Télégramme [The Telegram], Morlaix: Groupe Télégramme, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2024-08-16, page 8:

Due to the red heatwave alert on Monday, July 18th, the prefectural order banning the practice of indoor sports led Gérald Kerscaven, umpire, to reschedule the finals from Saturday, July 23rd to Sunday, July 24th.

(sports) final, finals (game between the last two competitors remaining in the running, in elimination tournaments)

(chess) endgame, end game (moment in the game when the threat of checkmate is low and the kings participate in the struggle)


finale

(linguistics) final phoneme (final phoneme in a syllable. Often used in the study of Chinese languages)

(grammar) final letter, final syllable (last letter of a word, or last syllable of a sentence)

(music) final note (last note of a tune)


vocal

Ellipsis of message vocal. Compare Italian vocale.

T'inquiètes, je t'envoies un vocal pour t'expliquer.

Don't worry, I'm gonna send you a voice message to explain it to you.


pommes frites

→ German: Pommes frites

→ Macedonian: помфрит (pomfrit)

→ Norwegian: pommes frites

desc

→ Serbo-Croatian: pomfrit, pommes frites

→ Swedish: pommes frites

Ellipsis of pommes de terre frites (“fried potatoes”).


masque

→ Czech: maska

→ Danish: maske

→ English: masque

→ German: Maske
→ Hungarian: maszk

→ Hunsrik: Mask

→ Macedonian: маска (maska)

→ Mongolian: маск (mask)

→ Norwegian: maske

→ Persian: ماسک (mâsk)

→ Polish: maska

→ Romanian: mască

desctree

→ Russian: маска (maska)
→ Armenian: մասկա (maska)
→ Georgian: მასკა (masḳa)
→ Kazakh: маска (maska)

→ Serbo-Croatian: maska / маска

→ Swedish: mask

→ Turkish: maske

Borrowed from Italian maschera. More at English mask.

masque de grossesse
masque de grossesse#French


pomme

Inherited from Middle French pomme, from Old French pome, pume, from Latin pōma, plural of pōmum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular, from Proto-Italic *poomos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂po-h₁ém-os (“taken off”). Compare English pome.

inh

(by ellipsis) potato (from pomme de terre)


numéro

Haitian Creole: nimewo

Borrowed from Italian numero. Doublet of nombre.


omnibus

→ English: omnibus

⇒ English: bus (see there for further descendants)

→ German: Omnibus
→ Hungarian: omnibusz

→ Spanish: ómnibus

Ellipsis of voiture omnibus (“carriage for all”), the latter element being a learned borrowing from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”).

lbor

(dated) omnibus, bus (especially, a 19th-century horse-drawn omnibus)


omnibus

un train omnibus

(rail transport) local (of a train; making stops at all stations)


anal

Learned borrowing from Latin ānālis, or coined in French from anus + -al.


canon

→ Turkish: kanon

Inherited from Old French canon, borrowed from Latin canōn, from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn, “measuring rod, standard”).
The 'attractive person' sense comes from an ellipsis of canon de beauté.

der

(slang) hottie, dish, bombshell (attractive man/woman)


instrument

From Middle French instrument, from Old French instrument, from Latin īnstrūmentum.

instrument à cordes

instrument à vent

instrument à percussion

instrument de musique
instrument de musique#French

ellipsis of instrument de musique (“musical instrument”)


gland

Inherited from Old French glant, from Latin glandem.

Brise-cul, vingt-huit ans, l'air d'un satyre, son vit est tortu ; la tête ou le gland en est énorme : il a huit pouces trois lignes de tour, et le corps du vit huit pouces sur seize de long ; ce vit majestueux est absolument cambré.

1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, translated by Austryn Wainhouse and Richard Seaver, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage:

Bum-Cleaver, twenty-eight years old, has the look of a satyr; his majestic prick is bent saber fashion, its head, or glans, is enormous, it is eight and three-eighths inches in circumference and the shaft eight in length.

les papules perlées du gland

ellipsis of gland du pénis (“glans penis”)

gland du clitoris
gland du clitoris#French

ellipsis of gland du clitoris (“glans clitoridis”)


alto

→ Persian: آلتو (âlto)


relative

Ellipsis of proposition subordonnée relative.

ellipsis

(grammar) relative clause, adjectival clause, adjective clause


effet serre

Les hydrocarbures, que nous savons être à l’origines de phénomènes tels que l’effet serre, représentent plus du 70% des matériaux extraits du sol.

2010, Giacomo Bersano, Créer le future avec TRIZ et l’innovation systematique, page 255:

Hydrocarbons, which we know to be at the origin of phenomena such as the greenhouse effect, represent more than 70% of all material extracted from the earth.

Le tribunal a estimé que l’État avait commis une “faute” en ne réduisant pas assez les émissions de gaz à effet serre.

2021 February 4, Violette Robinet, “ ‘Affaire du siècle’ : une décision de justice ‘embarrassante’ pour Macron”, in Courrier international:

The court ruled that the state had committed a “fault ” by not reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough.


patate

Borrowed from Spanish patata (“potato”), from Taíno batata (“sweet potato”).


incise

(grammar) a part of a sentence, set between em dashes


luge

fr-noun

luge f (countable and uncountable, plural luges)

English: luge

From Swiss French/Franco-Provençal, from Medieval Latin sludia, from Late Latin sclodia, of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *stludio, from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“slippery”).

(uncountable) luge (sport) (the sport of luge); ellipsis of luge de course


chute

From a merger of Old French cheüe, chue (from Vulgar Latin *cadūta) and cheoite (from Vulgar Latin cadecta), both feminine past participles of cheoir, whence modern choir (compare chu).

Nous ne sommes plus très loin des chutes du Niagara.


capote

→ English: capote

→ Persian: کاپوت (kâput)

→ Portuguese: capote

→ Turkish: kaput

Ultimately from Latin caput (“head”), with the diminutive French suffix -ote. Piecewise doublet of capot.

Le pape demande de choisir hostie ou capote / Oh Shit ! Moins de fidèles et plus de sex shops

1994, “Zig Zag de l'aisé”, in Obsolète, performed by MC Solaar:

The Pope asks (them) to choose between the Eucharist and the condom / Oh Shit ! Less faithfuls and more sex shops

(slang) ellipsis of capote anglaise (“condom”)


maki

Borrowed from Japanese maki (maki), from まき, from 巻き.


Belgique

→ Persian: بلژیک (belžik)

→ Ottoman Turkish: بلچیقه (belçika)

> Turkish: Belçika (inherited)

→ Azerbaijani: Belçika

→ Crimean Tatar: Belçika

→ Central Kurdish: بەلجیکا (belcîka)

→ Arabic: بِلْجِيكَا (biljīkā)

Originally an adjective, borrowed from Latin Belgicus; morphologically, from Belge + -ique. Noun use arose by ellipsis of province belgique.

Royaume de Belgique
Royaume de Belgique#French

Belgium (a country in Western Europe that has borders with the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France; official name: Royaume de Belgique)


portable

Borrowed from Latin portābilis. By surface analysis, porter + -able.

téléphone portable
téléphone portable#French

a mobile phone; ellipsis of téléphone portable

ordinateur portable
ordinateur portable#French

a laptop; ellipsis of ordinateur portable


console

desc

→ Armenian: քոնսոլ (kʻonsol), քոնցոլ (kʻoncʻol) — Constantinople

→ Catalan: consola

→ English: console

→ German: Konsole

→ Greek: κονσόλα (konsóla)

→ Ottoman Turkish: قونسول (konsol)

→ Turkish: konsol

→ Polish: konsola

Probably a shortened from consolateur, denoting the same architectural element, ultimately from consoler (“to console, to comfort”).

(by ellipsis) video game console, electronic gadget serving in order to play video games


rapport

→ Crimean Tatar: raport

→ Danish: rapport

→ English: rapport

→ German: Rapport

→ Luxembourgish: Rapport

→ Norman: rapport

→ Norwegian Bokmål: rapport

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: rapport

→ Polish: raport

→ Russian: ра́порт (ráport), → Russian: раппорт (rapport)

→ Swedish: rapport

→ Turkish: rapor

ellipsis of rapport sexuel (“sexual intercourse”)


ottoman

ellipsis of turc ottoman (“Ottoman Turkish”)


ta gueule

ta yeule (alternative Quebec)
tayeule (alternative Quebec)

(slang, offensive, vulgar) shut your mouth!, shut up!, shut it!


freestyle

sports de glisse freestyle
sports de glisse freestyle#French

(sports) freestyle (skiing and snowboarding) (freestyle skiing, snowboarding) ellipsis of sports de glisse freestyle


poste

→ Belarusian: пост (post)

→ Bulgarian: пост (post)

→ Danish: post

→ Dutch: post

→ Indonesian: pos

→ English: post

→ Malay: pos

→ Khmer: ប៉ុស្តិ៍ (poh)

→ Russian: пост (post)

→ Swedish: post

→ Ukrainian: пост (post)

→ Vietnamese: bốt

(slang) ellipsis of poste de police (“police station, nick”)

(colloquial) ellipsis of poste de radio (“radio”)

a receiver, an electronic device
ellipsis of poste de radio (“radio”)

poste de télévision
poste de télévision#French

(colloquial) ellipsis of poste de télévision (“TV, TV set”)


gaga

(linguistics, by ellipsis) the parler gaga, a French variety spoken in the French city of Saint-Étienne, the North of the Forez and around.


tête

→ German: Tete

[tɛɪ̯tʰ]

Inherited from Middle French teste, from Old French teste, from Latin testa (“pot, jug, brick”). Replaced French chef (from Latin caput), which is still used in some expressions.

(perfumery) ellipsis of note de tête (“top note”)


Canadien

Le Canadien a entamé la deuxième moitié de saison sur une note positive en signant un difficile gain de 2-1 lors de leur premier match au Centre Bell depuis le 17 décembre.

2016 January 6, Michel Lamarche, “Rien de mieux que la maison”, in Réseau des sports, archived from the original on 2016-01-10:

The Habs started the second half of the season on a positive note with a tough 2-1 win in their first game at the Bell Centre since December 17.

(ice hockey) The Montreal Canadiens hockey club.


Tash

Borrowed from Yiddish טאהש (Tosh), from Hebrew טאהש.

Tash (ellipsis of Kiryas Tash: a neighbourhood of Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada)


Tour

ellipsis of tour Eiffel (“the Eiffel Tower”)


Tour

(cycling) ellipsis of Tour de France (“the Tour de France”)


Union

Shortened form of the name of various Unions

Union européenne
Union européenne#French


copain

fr-noun

copain m (plural copains, feminine copine)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Old Latin com
Latin cum
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-der.?
Latin pānis
Proto-Indo-European *-h₃onh₂-der.
Latin -ō
Proto-West Germanic *gahlaibōcalq.
Latin compāniō
Old French compaing
French copain
# Inherited from Old French compaing, compain m, from Late Latin compāniō m (nominative form) (compare also Italian compagno m), from com- + pānis m, literally “with-bread”, a word first attested in the Frankish Lex Salica as a translation of a Germanic word, probably Frankish *galaibo, *gahlaibō (“messmate”, literally “with-bread”), from *hlaib m (“loaf, bread”). See also compagnon m, from the accusative form of the same Late Latin term compāniōnem, whence English companion.
# The sense of 'boyfriend' is by ellipsis of petit copain.

etymon

(informa) ellipsis of petit copain: boyfriend (boy/man to whom one has a romantic attachment)


copine

fr-noun

copine f (plural copines, masculine copain)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Old Latin com
Latin cum
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-der.?
Latin pānis
Proto-Indo-European *-h₃onh₂-der.
Latin -ō
Proto-West Germanic *gahlaibōcalq.
Latin compāniō
Old French compaing
French copain
French -in
French -e
French -ine
French copine
From copain m + -ine f.

etymon

(informa) ellipsis of petite copine: girlfriend (girl/woman to whom one has a romantic attachment)


bombe

→ Danish: bombe

→ English: bombe

→ German: Bombe

→ Lao: ບົມ (bom)

→ Persian: بمب (bomb)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: bombe

→ Vietnamese: bom

Borrowed from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a boom”).

bombe météorologique
bombe météorologique#French

bombe cyclonique
bombe cyclonique#French

ellipsis of bombe météorologique, bombe météo, or bombe cyclonique


pièce

→ Danish: pjece

→ Northern Kurdish: piyes

→ Norwegian:

Norwegian Bokmål: piece

→ Ottoman Turkish: پیهس (piyes)

Turkish: piyes (play - in a theatre)

→ Romanian: piesă

desctree

→ Russian: пье́са (pʹjésa)
→ Armenian: պիես (pies)
→ Georgian: პიესა (ṗiesa)
→ Kazakh: пьеса (pesa)

→ Swedish: pjäs

desc

п'єса<alt:п’є́са>

→ Ukrainian: п’є́са (pʺjésa)

→ Yiddish: פּיעסע (pyese)

Inherited from Middle French piece, from Old French piece, from Late Latin pettia, from Gaulish *pettya, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis.

rendre la monnaie de sa pièce

pièce de monnaie
pièce de monnaie#French


berceuse

→ Dutch: berceuse

→ English: berceuse

ellipsis of chaise berceuse: a rocking chair


musette

Inherited from Middle French musette, Old French musette (“type of bagpipe”), from muse (“bagpipe”) + -ette (diminutive suffix). Muse is a deverbal of muser (“to play the bagpipe; (figuratively) to flatter”), perhaps from musel (“muzzle (protruding part of an animal’s head)”) (alluding to a bagpipe player puffing out the cheeks), from Late Latin mūsus (“muzzle”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps expressive of protruding lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgiō (“to bellow, low, moo”), from Proto-Indo-European *mug-, *mūg- (onomatopoeia of the lowing of cattle).


garçon

→ Dutch: garçon m

→ English: garçon, garcon

→ German: Garçon m

→ Greek: γκαρσόνι n (gkarsóni)

→ Haitian Creole: gason

→ Italian: garzone m

→ Mauritian Creole: garson

→ Persian: گارسون (gârson)

→ Polish: garson m pers

→ Portuguese: garçom m, garçon m

→ Romanian: garson m

→ Russian: гарсо́н m anim (garsón)

→ Seychellois Creole: garson

→ Slovak: garsón, garsónka

→ Spanish: garzón m

→ Turkish: garson

Inherited from Old French garçon m (“servant, boy”), from Early Medieval Latin garciōnem, accusative of garciō m (“mercenary, servant, boy”), from Frankish *wrakjō m (“servant, boy”), from Proto-Germanic *wrakjô m (“exile, driven one”).

der

Garçon, l'addition s'il vous plaît.


boîte

Haitian Creole: bwat

Mauritian Creole: bwat

Seychellois Creole: bwat

→ Malagasy: boaty

→ Moore: boata

→ Sicilian: buatta

→ Portuguese: boate

→ Spanish: boîte

Inherited from Old French boiste, from Vulgar Latin *buxita, from Late Latin buxis, from a conflation of Latin pyxis (“small box”) and buxus (“box tree”). Doublet of box.

(colloquial) ellipsis of boîte de nuit (“club, nightclub”)


Cro-Magnon

desc

кроманьо́нец

→ Bulgarian: Кроманьо́н (Kromanjón), кроманьо́нец (kromanjónec)

→ English: Cro-Magnon

→ Japanese: クロマニョン (Kuromanyon), クロマニョン人 (Kuromanyon jin)

кроманьо́нец

→ Russian: Кро-Маньо́н (Kro-Manʹón), кроманьо́нец (kromanʹónec)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: Кромањон, кромањо́нац

Cyrillic script: Кромањон, кромањо́нац

Latin script: Kromanjon, kromanjónac

→ Spanish: cromañón

Кро-Маньйо́н

кроманьйо́нець

→ Ukrainian: Кро-Маньйо́н (Kro-Manʹjón), кроманьйо́нець (kromanʹjónecʹ)

Borrowed from Occitan Cròs-Manhon. Francization of the Occitan. Equivalent to creux + Magnon. The name Manhon derives from manhon from Latin magnus.

homme de Cro-Magnon
homme de Cro-Magnon#French

ellipsis of homme de Cro-Magnon: Cro-Magnon, a variety of early homo sapiens found in Europe


gradus

Ellipsis of Gradus ad Parnassum (literally “a step to Parnassus”), a 17th-century prosody dictionary long used in British schools. Doublet of grade.

ellipsis

any books of instruction, or guides, in which gradual progress in literature, language instruction, music, or the arts in general, is sought


épi

Inherited from Old French espi, from Latin spīcum, one of the variants of spīca. Doublet of aspic.

(baking) ellipsis of baguette en épi, a baguette shaped like a wheat stalk


chèvre

→ English: chèvre


Versailles

→ Persian: ورسای (versây)

Uncertain, but possibly from Latin versus (“slope”) or versor (“to dwell”), both from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn around”).

der

Palace of Versailles
w:Palace of Versailles

(by ellipsis) Versailles (the Palace of Versailles)


grec

fr-noun

grec m (countable and uncountable, plural grecs)

Inherited from Middle French grec, borrowed from Latin graecus, from Ancient Greek Γραικός (Graikós).
This learned form supplanted the older grégeois (now only in feu grégeois), from Old French grezois, derived from inherited Old French gri(e)u with the ending -ois, or possibly stemming from a Vulgar Latin *graeciscus.
The feminine form in -cque is a remnant of an older spelling habit, which has occasionally survived after -e- (compare Mecque), possibly in order to avoid the grave accent (*grèque).

(slang) ellipsis of sandwich grec; kebab sandwich


Wallace

fontaine Wallace
fontaine Wallace#French


potager

warming oven (a type of obsolete stone oven)


vapeur

Inherited from Middle French vapeur, from Old French vapour, vapor, borrowed from Latin vapor m.


Amérique

Haitian Creole: Amerik

United States of America
United States of America#English

États-Unis d'Amérique
États-Unis d'Amérique#French

(informal, by ellipsis, metonymic) America, United States of America (a country in North America; in full, États-Unis d'Amérique)


papillon

→ English: papillon

→ Greek: παπιγιόν (papigión)

→ Romanian: papion

→ Turkish: papyon

From Old French papeillon (12th c.), byform of paveillon, whence the modern doublet pavillon (“pavilion”). Both from Latin pāpiliōnem. The form with recovered -p- may be semi-learned, but has also been explained as a native development due to onomatopoeia. Another possibility would be influence by a hypothetical Old French *parpeillon, from Vulgar Latin *parpiliōnem (cf. Occitan parpalhon). The swimming sense is a semantic loan from English.

(mechanics) ellipsis of écrou papillon (“wing nut, butterfly nut”)


témoin

témoin m (plural témoins, feminine (rare) témoignesse or (both nonstandard) témouine or témointe)

témoins (plural)
témoignesse (feminine rare)
témouine (feminine nonstandard)
témointe (feminine nonstandard)

Inherited from Middle French tesmoing, from Old French tesmoin, from Latin testimōnium. The same Latin noun was also borrowed into Old French as testimonie, testemoigne (whence English testimony); this has been lost in modern French.

témoin de navigation
témoin de navigation#French

(Internet, software) ellipsis of témoin de navigation


Érythrée

l'Érythrée (canonical feminine)
Erythrée (alternative)

Haitian Creole: Eritre

→ Persian: اریتره (eritre)

→ Turkish: Eritre

From Latin erythraeus, as it was used in Erythraeum mare (“the Erythraean Sea”), from Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”). The second sense is a semantic loan from Italian l'Eritrea, first used in Italian as an ellipsis of la Colonia eritrea (“Italian Eritrea”, literally “the Erythraean colony”).

En second lieu, si l'on dit que les Tyriens se servirent du même expédient dont commença à user Cléopatre à la Bataille d'Actium, & que ces Vaisseaux furent transportez à force de Bras, & d'Argent, de la mer Mediterranée dans l'Erythrée, l'intervalle de l'une à l'autre n'étant que de trois cens stades; la chose ne paroîtra pas non plus incroyable.

1730, Traitez géographiques et historiques, pages 40–41:

[...] il se demande [...] comment il a pu se faire au contraire que l'Érythrée ait conservé son niveau sans baisser.

1886, Géographie de Strabon, pages 95–96:

(obsolete or historical) ellipsis of la mer Érythrée (“the Erythraean Sea”)


frite

Ellipsis of patate frite (“fried potato”) or pomme frite (itself an ellipsis of pomme de terre frite); feminine of frit, the past participle of frire (“to fry”).

ellipsis

ne pas avoir toutes ses frites dans le même sachet

(chiefly in the plural) chips, French fries


saut

Inherited from Old French, from Latin saltus.

saut-de-loup

(wide) ditch, haha; opening placed at ground level that allows natural light to illuminate a basement

(gymnastics) vault: ellipsis of saut de cheval


manuelle

Ellipsis of voiture à boîte automatique.

(informal) a manual car, a car with manual transmission


pénultième

penult (next-to-last syllable of a word)


quand on parle du loup

Ellipsis of quand on parle du loup, on en voit la queue (literally “when you speak of the wolf, you'll see his tail”).

speak of the devil (an expression sometimes used when a person mentioned in the current conversation happens to arrive on the scene)


custode

Borrowed from Medieval Latin custōdia. Automotive sense ellipsis of vitre de custode f (literally “guard window”).

(automotive) quarter glass (small triangular-shaped side window)


en garde

(fencing) ellipsis of position en garde; the ready position, ready to attack or defend, in a face-off


camisole

→ English: camisole

Borrowed from Old Occitan camisola. Compare Portuguese camisola.

camisole de force
camisole de force#French

ellipsis of camisole de force; straitjacket


béchamel

fr-noun

béchamel f (usually uncountable, plural béchamels)

→ Albanian: beshamel

→ English: béchamel

→ Esperanto: beŝamelo

→ Greek: μπεσαμέλ (besamél)

→ Italian: besciamella

→ Spanish: bechamel

Named after French gastronome Louis Béchameil de Nointel (1630–1703).

named-after

béchamel sauce; ellipsis of sauce béchamel


défilé

→ Dutch: defilé
→ Indonesian: défilé

→ German: Defilee

→ Italian: défilé

→ Persian: دِفیله (defile)

→ Turkish: defile

Pour résumer, le défilé organisé par Louis Vuitton au Palais des papes n'a pas attiré le chaland.

2025 May 27, Hugo Pilache, “Défilé Vuitton : quelles retombées économiques ?”, in La Provence, →ISSN, page 5:


Laval

LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-hôtel de la Croix-Laval.wav

From la (“the”) + val (“vale (valley)”).
* (Mayenne): From being situated at a valley
* (surname): Derived from the placename in Mayenne
* (Quebec municipality): Derived from the surname of an early settler
* (Quebec island): Derived from the name of the city located on the island

(informal) ellipsis of Île de Laval: an island of Quebec, Canada; synonym of Île Jésus


latté

latte: a hot coffee beverage; ellipsis of café latté


papille

→ Persian: پاپیل (pâpil)

→ Turkish: papil

papille gustative
papille gustative#French

(colloquial) ellipsis of papille gustative (“tastebud”)


automatique

desctree

→ English: automatic, automatick (obsolete)
→ Albanian: automatik
→ Malay: automatik
→ Pohnpeian: audomadik

→ Turkish: otomatik


automatique

(informal) an automatic car, a car with automatic transmission


tartare

fr-noun

tartare m (countable and uncountable, plural tartares)


inconnue

résoudre une équation à deux inconnues


bouclier

Ellipsis of Old French escut boucler (“shield with a buckle”), with change of suffix. Morphologically, from boucle + -ier.

der

levée de boucliers

He also carried his small triangular shield, broad enough at the top to protect the breast, and from thence diminishing to a point.

1820 [1819], Alexandre Dumas, transl., Ivanhoé, translation of Ivanhoe by Walter Scott:

shield (broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body)


kiosque

desctree

→ Dutch: kiosk
Afrikaans: kiosk
→ Indonesian: kios
→ Ternate: kios

→ English: kiosk

→ Norman: kiosque

→ Norwegian Bokmål: kiosk

→ Polish: kiosk

→ Portuguese: quiosque

→ Persian: کیوسک (kiyusk)

→ Russian: киоск (kiosk), кіо́скъ (kiósk) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
→ Georgian: კიოსკი (ḳiosḳi)
→ Hebrew: קִיּוֹסְק (kiyósk)
→ Yakut: киоск (kiosk)

→ Spanish: kiosco, quiosco

Borrowed from Italian chiosco, from Ottoman Turkish كوشك (köşk), from Persian کوشک (kôšk, “palace, portico”), from Middle Persian kwšk' (kōšk).

ellipsis of kiosque à musique (“bandstand”); bandstand


recommandé

courrier recommandé
courrier recommandé#French

ellipsis of courrier recommandé: recorded delivery, registered mail


utilitaire

véhicule utilitaire
véhicule utilitaire#French

ellipsis of véhicule utilitaire: utility vehicle, UV


quoi de neuf

(informal greeting) [ [[what's up, the sky?], how's it going


faire la une

to hit the headlines (to appear prominently in the news; to be the first topic broached on the news; to appear on the front page of a publication)


pendule

Haitian Creole: pandil

→ Spanish: pandil


soutien

→ Bulgarian: сутие́н (sutién)

→ Egyptian Arabic: ستيان (sutyān)

→ Persian: سوتین (sutiyan)

→ Greek: σουτιέν (soutién)

→ Khmer: អាវស៊ូជាង (ʼaaw suuciəng)

→ Portuguese: sutiã

→ Romanian: sutien

→ Spanish: soutien

→ Turkish: sütyen, sutyen

→ Vietnamese: xu-chiêng


gardien

fr-noun

gardien m (plural gardiens, feminine gardienne)

From Old French guardian, guardein (“protector, guard”), from an earlier *gardenc, the first root deriving from guarder and the second from Proto-Germanic *-ingaz, cf the similarly-formed Italian guardingo . The suffix was later changed; compare the Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin guardianus, which may have influenced it. Doublet of gardian.

lbor

(sports) ellipsis of gardien de but (goalkeeper; goaltender; goalie)


mutuelle

mutuelle de santé

financial institution
financial institution

(by ellipsis) member-owned insurance or financial institution


sativa

Ellipsis of translingual Cannabis sativa (“sativa form of marijuana”), from Latin sativa (“cultivated”)

ellipsis

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Cannabis sativa</i>


huissier

fr-noun

huissier m (plural huissiers, feminine huissière)

→ English: huissier

→ Romanian: ușier (calque)

→ Tamil: உச்சே (uccē)

Inherited from Old French ussier, from uis (“door”) + -ier (suffix denoting occupation), or inherited from Latin ostiārius. Doublet of ostiaire.

huissier de justice
huissier de justice#French

(law) ellipsis of huissier de justice, an officer of the court in various European countries roughly similar to a British bailiff


sécante

(mathematics) secant (trigonometric function)


appareil

From appareiller (in Old French apareil). Less likely from a Vulgar Latin *apparic(u)lum; cf. apparātus (whence apparat).

ellipsis of appareil photo: camera (for photographs)


petites annonces

petites annonces classées
petites annonces classées#French

ellipsis of petites annonces classées: plural of petite annonce


petite annonce

petite annonce f (plural petites annonces)

petite annonce classée
petite annonce classée#French

classified advertisement
classified advertisement

ellipsis of petite annonce classée (“a single classified advertisement”)


micro-onde

microwave (part of the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation)


passe-partout

passe-partouts (plural)
passepartout (alternative)

→ Danish: passepartout

→ Dutch: passe-partout

→ English: passe-partout

→ German: Passepartout

→ Hungarian: paszpartu

→ Italian: passe-partout

→ Russian: паспарту (paspartu)

→ Georgian: პასპარტუ (ṗasṗarṭu)

→ Spanish: pasaportú

scie passe-partout
scie passe-partout#French

(dated) ellipsis of scie passe-partout; two-man crosscut saw


slopestyle

descente acrobatique
descente acrobatique#French

slopestyle surf des neiges
slopestyle surf des neiges#French

surf des neiges slopestyle
surf des neiges slopestyle#French

(skiing, snowboarding) slopestyle; synonym of descente acrobatique

(snowboarding) ellipsis of slopestyle surf des neiges or surf des neiges slopestyle


pomme frite

English: pomme frite

Danish: pomme frite

(dated, chiefly in the plural) french fry


vespasienne

Ellipsis of colonne vespasienne (“Vespasian column”), named after Vespasian (9 CE–79 CE), the Roman emperor who introduced a tax on public lavatories.

ellipsis

Comme il sortait de chez lui ce matin-là, en voiture non blindée — il n’avait jamais voulu consentir dans Paris à cette élémentaire précaution — un individu, qui le guettait depuis quelques jours, bondit de derrière une vespasienne au coin de la rue Franklin et du boulevard Delessert et tira plusieurs balles dans sa direction.

1938, Léon Daudet, “XI”, in La vie orageuse de Clemenceau:

As he was leaving his house that morning, in a non-armoured car – he had never wanted to take that basic precaution in Paris – an individual, who had been watching him for several days, leapt out from behind a public urinal on the corner of Rue Franklin and Boulevard Delessert and fired multiple shots in his direction.


mettre de côté

(intransitive, informal) ellipsis of mettre de l'argent de côté


casier

casier judiciaire
casier judiciaire#French

(informal) ellipsis of casier judiciaire (“criminal record”)


directrice

(geometry) ellipsis of ligne directrice: directrix


maternelle

école maternelle
école maternelle#French

ellipsis of école maternelle: nursery school, kindergarten


familiale

voiture familiale
voiture familiale#French

ellipsis of voiture familiale: a family car


béarnaise

→ Swedish: bearnaise


Saintes

Xainctes (alternative)
Xaintes (alternative)

Dutch: Saintes

English: Saintes

From Middle French Xaintes, from Old French Xainctes, from Latin Santones, from Ancient Greek Σάντονες, Σάντονοι, Σάντωνες (Sántones, Sántonoi, Sántōnes), a Celtic tribe that lived in the region of Xainctonge and the settlement of Xainctes (now Saintes, France).

der

Σάντονες, Σάντονοι, Σάντωνες

Saintes; A city in the southeastern French département Charente-Maritime, the former capital of the Saintonge province

Saintes; A French Catholic diocese named after the above, its see

Saintes; A French arrondissement named after the above, its capital


Saintes

Dutch: Saintes

English: Saintes

Ellipsis of îles des Saintes, from the capitalization of saintes, from Spanish Los Santos, from being named after All Saints' Day by Christopher Columbus in 1493, after the recently past holy day of November 1st, before discovery on 4 November of that year.
The French feminine form "saintes" is related to the term "îles", which is feminine in French, whereas the original Spanish term "santos" is masculine, and related to the holiday "Día de Todos los Santos", which is also masculine.

Les Saintes (alternative)
les Saintes (alternative)
îles des Saintes (alternative)

(in the plural) Saintes; A small French Caribbean island chain in the Leeward Islands, a dependency of Guadeloupe


mœurs

→ English: moeurs

Inherited from Latin mōrēs (“ways, character, morals”), the plural of mōs.

inh+

police des mœurs
police des mœurs#French

(colloquial) ellipsis of police des mœurs (“vice police”)


consécutive

consecutive interpreting
consecutive interpreting

consecutive interpretation
consecutive interpretation

(translation studies) consecutive interpreting, consecutive interpretation


gaillard

→ Catalan: gallard

→ English: Gaylord (surname)

Louisiana Creole: gayar

→ Spanish: gallardo

From Transalpine Gaulish *gal- (“strength”) + -ard, from Proto-Celtic *galā (“ability, might”) (compare Irish gal). Nautical sense ellipsis of château gaillard.

af

(nautical) forecastle (raised part of the upper deck at the front of a ship)


cellulaire

téléphone cellulaire
téléphone cellulaire#French

(North America) cellular phone, mobile phone; ellipsis of téléphone cellulaire


garde-robe

→ Estonian: garderoob

→ German: Garderobe (see there for further descendants)

→ Hungarian: gardrób

→ Polish: garderoba

→ Russian: гардеро́б (garderób)

→ Serbo-Croatian: garderóba, гардеро́ба

→ Turkish: gardırop

Ellipsis of armoire garde-robe, from garder (“to keep safe”) + robe (“dress”).

an armoire; a wardrobe (a piece of furniture for clothes)


crémaillère

crémaillères (plural)
cramaillère (alternative archaic)
cramaillier (alternative archaic)

→ Catalan: cremallera

→ English: crémaillère

→ Portuguese: cremalheira

→ Spanish: cremallera

From Old French cramail + -ière, from Latin cramalius, cramalium, cramaculus, cramaculum (“trammel”), alteration of cremasculus, cremasculum (“trammel”), diminutive of cremaster from Ancient Greek κρεμαστήρ (kremastḗr).

pendaison de crémaillère
pendaison de crémaillère#French

ellipsis of pendaison de crémaillère; housewarming


avoir envie

Maman, j'ai envie!


Marson

→ English: Marson

* (rue voie romaine Saumur-Doué): From Latin Marcum, from Marcus, from Martinus (“Saint Martin”) (Bishop of Tours), from Martis, from Mars.

ellipsis of Marson-sur-Barboure: a commune of Meuse department, Grand Est, France


auxiliaire

22 octobre 44 – Deux êtres qui se prêtent l’un à l’autre pour leur mieux-être. Et Kurt n’en tirait pas vanité. Je crois que c’est ce détail-là qui m’a libérée : je n’ai pas été eue… Si j’ose employer trois auxiliaires de suite!

1962, Benoîte Groult, Flora Groult, Journal à quatre mains [Four-Hand Diary], Éditions Denoël, page 364:

22 October 44 – Two beings who lend themselves to each other for their well-being. And Kurt did not take pride in it. I believe that it is that detail that has liberated me: I have not been had…. If I dare to use three auxiliaries in a row!

«Ça humait l’accord du participe passé avec l’auxiliaire avoir quand le complément d’objet est placé sans devant derrière.»

1987, Dominique Lemaire, Le trèfle à quat’feuilles [The Four-Leaf Clover], Éditions L’Age d’Homme, page 29:

“It smelled the agreement of the past participle with the auxiliary avoir when the object complement is placed backwards.”

Ça s'appelle le «conditionnel». Et là tu verras que certains verbes se conjuguent avec l’auxiliaire «avoir» et d'autres avec l’auxiliaire «être». Ça ne se fait pas à pouf.

2014, Bernard Marlière, “Si j’aurais resté à la RTBF [If I had stayed at RTBF]”, in Anthologie de l’humour belge : Du Prince de Ligne à Philippe Geluck [Anthology of Belgian Humour: From the Prince of Ligne to Philippe Geluck], Éditions Jourdan:

It is called the “conditional”. And there you will see that certain verbs conjugate themselves with the auxiliary “avoir” and others with the auxiliary “être”. It does not happen at random.

En espéranto, esti est le seul auxiliaire. — En latin vulgaire, habere est devenu auxiliaire ; mais, en latin classique, seul esse jouait ce rôle.

(Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name):

In Esperanto, esti is the only auxiliary. — In Vulgar Latin, habere has become auxiliary; but, in Classical Latin, only esse played this role.

(grammar) a helping verb, an auxiliary verb (verb that, having lost its literal meaning, joins itself to a certain form of another verb, for example to a past participle, to show a grammatical feature such as tense, voice, aspect, etc. In French, avoir and être are tense auxiliaries)


mousseux

ellipsis of vin mousseux; sparkling wine


simultanée

simultaneous interpreting
simultaneous interpreting

simultaneous interpretation
simultaneous interpretation

(translation studies) simultaneous interpreting, simultaneous interpretation


subordonnée

les subordonnées circonstancielles


Six Nations

Six-Nations (alternative)
6 Nations (alternative)

Réserve des Six Nations
Réserve des Six Nations#French

(Canada) Six Nations; ellipsis of Réserve des Six Nations

Ligue des Six Nations
Ligue des Six Nations#French

(North America) Six Nations; ellipsis of Ligue des Six Nations

Tournoi des Six Nations
Tournoi des Six Nations#French

(France) Six Nations; ellipsis of Tournoi des Six Nations


maniaque

fr-noun

maniaque m or f by sense (plural maniaques)

→ Czech: maniak

→ Dutch: maniak

desctree

→ English: maniac, maniack (obsolete)
→ Cebuano: manyak, manyakis
→ Malay: maniak
→ Tagalog: manyak, manyakis

→ Polish: maniak

→ Romanian: maniac

→ Turkish: manyak

Learned borrowing from Late Latin maniacus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μανιακός (maniakós), adjectival form of μανία (manía, “madness”). By surface analysis, manie + -aque.

lbor

(informal, by ellipsis) neat freak, clean freak


talon aiguille

fr-noun

talon aiguille m (plural talons aiguilles or talons aiguille)

talons aiguilles (plural)
talons aiguille (plural)


la fermer

Elliptical form of fermer sa gueule (“to shut one's mouth”)

(colloquial, offensive, euphemistic, by ellipsis) to shut it, to shut up (refrain from speech)


citadine

citadine f (plural citadines, masculine citadin)


câblier

ellipsis of navire câblier: cable layer; cable ship


à table

Ellipsis of mettez-vous à table ! or mets-toi à table !.


javel

→ Russian: жаве́ль (žavélʹ)


étoilé

Le premier édile met en avant les trois étoilés installés au village, mais aussi les quatorze autres restaurants de la commune.

2025 June 9, “Bonnieux, ou la nouvelle capitale de la gastronomie”, in La Provence, →ISSN, Vaucluse, page 3:

ellipsis of restaurant étoilé (“starred restaurant”)


à la place de

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À la place de Stéphane, j'aurais accepté le contrat.

If I had been Stéphane, I would have accepted the contract.

(colloquial) ellipsis of si j'étais/j'avais été à la place de... (“if I were/I had been in the shoes of...”)


n'empêche

(informal) despite all, nevertheless, still


CAC

Example stock market indices: CAC 40, CAC Next 20, CAC Mid 60, CAC Small, CAC All-Tradable.

(stock market, by extension) the main stock market index code for the French stock market, the Paris Bourse


baudruche

baudruches (plural)
bodruche (alternative obsolete)

Quant à l'air qu'ils emploient pour gonfler leurs baudruches / Leurs bulles de savon, c'est du souffle divin

1972, Georges Brassens, “La Ballade des gens qui sont nés quelque part”, in Fernande:

As for the air they use to blow up their balloons / And their soap bubbles, it is divine inspiration [literally "divine breath"]

ballon de baudruche
ballon de baudruche#French

ellipsis of ballon de baudruche; (toy) balloon


chevalière

From chevalier (“knight”) + -ière (“-ess”, feminine noun-forming suffix). In the sense “signet ring”, an ellipsis of bague à la chevalière (“ring in knightly style”), first attested in 1821.


chevrotine

fr-noun

chevrotine f (countable and uncountable, plural chevrotines)


circonstancielle

circonstancielle f (plural circonstancielles)

Ellipsis of proposition subordonnée circonstancielle.


parmentier

From hachis parmentier (“shepherd's pie”) or purée parmentier, from Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, from Parmentier, from parmentier, from Middle French parementier.

hachis parmentier
hachis parmentier#French

(Europe) mashed potato (?) : ellipsis of hachis parmentier

purée parmentier
purée parmentier#French

(Europe) shepherd's pie (?) : ellipsis of purée parmentier

pâté chinois

the version of shepherd's pie from Quebec

(Canada) the version of shepherd's pie from France; ellipsis of hachis parmentier


péridurale

epidural (an injection of anaesthetic into the epidural space of the spine, especially associated with pain relief during childbirth)


thyroïde

thyroïdes (plural)
thyréoïde (alternative obsolete)

→ Iranian Persian: تیروئید (tiro'id)

(anatomy) thyroid gland, thyroid (large butterfly-shaped endocrine gland situated on the front of the neck that produces various hormones)


à bout

Perhaps an ellipsis of à bout de forces or à bout de nerfs.

être à bout

Ma patience est à bout.

Nous les poussons à bout.

at the end of one's tether
at the end of one's tether


water

Ellipsis of water-closet, borrowed from English water closet.


Tosh

From Yiddish טאהש (Tosh), from Hebrew טאהש (Tash).

Tosh (ellipsis of Kiryas Tosh: a neighbourhood of Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada)


Derrida

ellipsis of Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (1930–2004)


Kamloops

Borrowed from English Kamloops. From French Camp des loups (“camp (“camp”)+loup (“wolf”)”). From Shuswap tk'əmlúps (“meeting of the rivers”).

der

British Columbia
British Columbia#English

Kamloops (ellipsis of lac Kamloops (= Kamloops Lake): a lake in British Columbia, Canada)


wesh

weshs (plural)
wech (alternative)
wsh (alternative)
wèch (alternative)
wèche (alternative)
ouèch (alternative)
ouèche (alternative)
ouaich (alternative)
ouaiche (alternative)

Many etymologies have been proposed. The leading theories find its roots in Maghrebi Arabic varieties, such as from Moroccan Arabic واش (wāš) (an interrogative particle), or through ellipsis of Algerian Arabic واش راك (wāš rāk, “what's up?”). Certain speakers and online dictionaries like L'internaute propose wesh as a "disformation" of French ouais, though this theory is much less popular.

bor

J’ai déjà discuté avec des weshs dans les TEC...c’est carrément un rôle, leur weshitude. Et quel autre but aurait un tel rôle que celui de chopper [les femmes]? Et ça marche. Donc en fait, ils sont malins, faut pas s’en moquer!

I already talked with the weshs in the TEC... it’s quite a role, their wesh-y-ness. And what other purpose would such a role have than to pick up women? And it works. So actually, they’re cunning, you can’t make fun of them!

(especially reduplicated, as in wesh-wesh) Someone tending to use French slang very frequently


Champs-Élysées

Avenue des Champs-Élysées
w:Avenue des Champs-Élysées

ellipsis of Avenue des Champs-Élysées, a major boulevard in Paris, running between the Place de la Concorde and the Arc de Triomphe


à la prochaine

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en finir

Il était déprimé et affirmait vouloir en finir.

He was depressed and said he wanted to end it all.

(by ellipsis, en finir avec la vie) to commit suicide


au propre

(linguistics) ellipsis of au sens propre: literally, in the literal sense


un de ces quatre

Un de ces quatre, nous tomberons ensemble.

1968, Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Bardot, Bonnie And Clyde:

(informal) one of these days, some day soon, sometime


Vachon

English: Vachon

a river in Nord-du-Québec, Québec, Canada

a river in Chaudière-Appalaches, Québec, Canada


Shaughnessy

Borrowed from English Shaughnessy, from Irish.

Village Shaughnessy
Village Shaughnessy#French


en baver

Ellipsis of en baver des ronds de chapeau.

ellipsis

J'en ai bavé pour parvenir jusqu'ici.

(informal) to go through hell, to suffer, to have a hard time, to have a rough time of it; to go through the mill (with a purpose)


Lessard

English: Lessard

desc

→ Chinese: 萊薩爾 /莱萨尔 (Láisà'ěr) (transliteration)

Lessard: A placename
ellipsis of Rivière Lessard
a river in Côte-Nord, Québec, Canada


au petit bonheur

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haphazardly, without planning; in a shot-in-the-dark manner


quoi faire

Ellipsis of pour quoi faire (“why”), another way of saying pourquoi (“why”).

Quoi faire t'as fait ça?


c'est la meilleure

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Probably an ellipsis of a sentence such as c'est la meilleure histoire qu'on m'ait jamais racontée or c'est la meilleure blague que j'aie entendue.

(informal) that's rich!, that's a good one! (an expression of surprised indignation)


para-hockey

para-hockey sur glace
para-hockey sur glace#French

ellipsis of para-hockey sur glace (“para ice hockey”)

synonym of hockey sur luge (“sledge hockey”)


rien à voir

(informal) that has nothing to do with it! not at all!


Paralympiques

Jeux paralympiques
Jeux paralympiques#French

Paralympics; ellipsis of Jeux paralympiques


para nordique

para-nordique (alternative)
paranordique (alternative)

ski para-nordique
ski para-nordique#French

(skiing) para-nordic; ellipsis of ski para-nordique


para-nordique

paranordique (alternative)
para nordique (alternative)


paranordique

para-nordique (alternative)
para nordique (alternative)


ne pas en foutre une

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(vulgar) to do fuck all, not to do a damn thing, to do nothing


en foutre une

Probably an ellipsis of foutre une raclée.

Je vais lui en foutre une s'il continue !

I'm going to beat the crap out of him if he continues!

beat the crap out of
beat the crap out of

(vulgar, by ellipsis) to beat the crap out of [with à ‘someone’]


hypertendre

hypertendres (plural)
hyper tendre (alternative)
hyper-tendre (alternative)

pneu hypertendre
pneu hypertendre#French

(motor racing) hypersoft; ellipsis of pneu hypertendre


supertendre

supertendres (plural)
super tendre (alternative)
super-tendre (alternative)

pneu supertendre
pneu supertendre#French

(motor racing) supersoft; ellipsis of pneu supertendre


ultratendre

ultratendres (plural)
ultra tendre (alternative)
ultra-tendre (alternative)

pneu ultratendre
pneu ultratendre#French

(motor racing) ultrasoft; ellipsis of pneu ultratendre


erlenmeyer

fiole Erlenmeyer
fiole Erlenmeyer#French

Erlenmeyer flask; ellipsis of fiole Erlenmeyer


la boucler

(colloquial, offensive, euphemistic, by ellipsis) to shut up (refrain from speech)


la mettre en sourdine

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(informal, by ellipsis) to shut up (refrain from speech)


se la ramener

se la ramener (infinitive reflexive)
se l'être + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction reflexive)
se la ramenant (gerund participle present reflexive)
se l'étant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present reflexive)
ramené (participle past reflexive)
me la ramène (first-person indicative present reflexive singular)
te la ramènes (indicative present reflexive second-person singular)
se la ramène (indicative present reflexive singular third-person)
nous la ramenons (first-person indicative plural present reflexive)
vous la ramenez (indicative plural present reflexive second-person)
se la ramènent (indicative plural present reflexive third-person)
me la ramenais (first-person imperfect indicative reflexive singular)
te la ramenais (imperfect indicative reflexive second-person singular)
se la ramenait (imperfect indicative reflexive singular third-person)
nous la ramenions (first-person imperfect indicative plural reflexive)
vous la rameniez (imperfect indicative plural reflexive second-person)
se la ramenaient (imperfect indicative plural reflexive third-person)
me la ramenai (first-person historic indicative past reflexive singular)
te la ramenas (historic indicative past reflexive second-person singular)
se la ramena (historic indicative past reflexive singular third-person)
nous la ramenâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural reflexive)
vous la ramenâtes (historic indicative past plural reflexive second-person)
se la ramenèrent (historic indicative past plural reflexive third-person)
me la ramènerai (first-person future indicative reflexive singular)
te la ramèneras (future indicative reflexive second-person singular)
se la ramènera (future indicative reflexive singular third-person)
nous la ramènerons (first-person future indicative plural reflexive)
vous la ramènerez (future indicative plural reflexive second-person)
se la ramèneront (future indicative plural reflexive third-person)
me la ramènerais (conditional first-person reflexive singular)
te la ramènerais (conditional reflexive second-person singular)
se la ramènerait (conditional reflexive singular third-person)
nous la ramènerions (conditional first-person plural reflexive)
nous la ramènerions (conditional first-person plural reflexive)
vous la ramèneriez (conditional plural reflexive second-person)
vous la ramèneriez (conditional plural reflexive second-person)
se la ramèneraient (conditional plural reflexive third-person)
future of se l'être + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect reflexive)
me la ramène (first-person present reflexive singular subjunctive)
te la ramènes (present reflexive second-person singular subjunctive)
se la ramène (present reflexive singular subjunctive third-person)
nous la ramenions (first-person plural present reflexive subjunctive)
vous la rameniez (plural present reflexive second-person subjunctive)
se la ramènent (plural present reflexive subjunctive third-person)
me la ramenasse (first-person imperfect reflexive singular subjunctive)
te la ramenasses (imperfect reflexive second-person singular subjunctive)
se la ramenât (imperfect reflexive singular subjunctive third-person)
nous la ramenassions (first-person imperfect plural reflexive subjunctive)
vous la ramenassiez (imperfect plural reflexive second-person subjunctive)
se la ramenassent (imperfect plural reflexive subjunctive third-person)
ramène-la-toi (imperative reflexive second-person singular)
ramenons-la-nous (first-person imperative plural reflexive)
ramenez-la-vous (imperative plural reflexive second-person)
la ramener (alternative)

(pronominal, informal, reflexive, by ellipsis) to show off, to be full of oneself


la mettre en veilleuse

LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-la mettre en veilleuse.wav


guichet automatique

fr-noun

guichet automatique m (plural guichets automatiques)

Ellipsis of guichet automatique bancaire.

ellipsis

automated teller
automated teller#English

automated teller machine
automated teller machine#English

automatic teller
automatic teller#English

automatic teller machine
automatic teller machine#English

autoteller / automated teller (“automated teller machine (“ATM”)”) / automatic teller (“automatic teller machine (“ATM”)”)


du vent

Probably an ellipsis of donne-moi du vent (“give me some air”), je veux du vent (“I want some air”), or some such phrase.

(informal) hop it! shoo! begone! push off! be off with you!


semi-remorque

Ellipsis of camion semi-remorque, from semi- + remorque.


s'en faire

se faire (infinitive reflexive)
s'être + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction reflexive)
se faisant (gerund participle present reflexive)
ayant (gerund multiword-construction participle present reflexive)
étant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present reflexive)
fait (participle past reflexive)
me fais (first-person indicative present reflexive singular)
te fais (indicative present reflexive second-person singular)
se fait (indicative present reflexive singular third-person)
nous faisons (first-person indicative plural present reflexive)
vous faites (indicative plural present reflexive second-person)
se font (indicative plural present reflexive third-person)
me faisais (first-person imperfect indicative reflexive singular)
te faisais (imperfect indicative reflexive second-person singular)
se faisait (imperfect indicative reflexive singular third-person)
nous faisions (first-person imperfect indicative plural reflexive)
vous faisiez (imperfect indicative plural reflexive second-person)
se faisaient (imperfect indicative plural reflexive third-person)
me fis (first-person historic indicative past reflexive singular)
te fis (historic indicative past reflexive second-person singular)
se fit (historic indicative past reflexive singular third-person)
nous fîmes (first-person historic indicative past plural reflexive)
vous fîtes (historic indicative past plural reflexive second-person)
se firent (historic indicative past plural reflexive third-person)
me ferai (first-person future indicative reflexive singular)
te feras (future indicative reflexive second-person singular)
se fera (future indicative reflexive singular third-person)
nous ferons (first-person future indicative plural reflexive)
vous ferez (future indicative plural reflexive second-person)
se feront (future indicative plural reflexive third-person)
me ferais (conditional first-person reflexive singular)
te ferais (conditional reflexive second-person singular)
se ferait (conditional reflexive singular third-person)
nous ferions (conditional first-person plural reflexive)
vous feriez (conditional plural reflexive second-person)
se feraient (conditional plural reflexive third-person)
future of s'être + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect reflexive)
conditional of s'être + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect reflexive)
me fasse (first-person present reflexive singular subjunctive)
te fasses (present reflexive second-person singular subjunctive)
se fasse (present reflexive singular subjunctive third-person)
nous fassions (first-person plural present reflexive subjunctive)
vous fassiez (plural present reflexive second-person subjunctive)
se fassent (plural present reflexive subjunctive third-person)
me fisse (first-person imperfect reflexive singular subjunctive)
te fisses (imperfect reflexive second-person singular subjunctive)
se fît (imperfect reflexive singular subjunctive third-person)
nous fissions (first-person imperfect plural reflexive subjunctive)
vous fissiez (imperfect plural reflexive second-person subjunctive)
se fissent (imperfect plural reflexive subjunctive third-person)
fais-toi (imperative reflexive second-person singular)
faisons-nous (first-person imperative plural reflexive)
faites-vous (imperative plural reflexive second-person)

Tu ne dois pas t'en faire, tout va bien se passer.

You shouldn't worry; everything will be fine.

T'en fais pas, mon p'tit loup
C'est la vie, ne pleure pas
T'oublieras, mon petit loup
Ne pleure pas

Don't worry, my darling [literally, "my little wolf"]
That's life; don't cry
You'll forget about it, my darling
Don't cry

J'ai pas l'air de m'en faire, mais si vous saviez comment c'est dans ma tête, ça me fait vriller.

I don't look worried, but if you knew what was going on in my head... It's sending me into a tailspin.

se faire du mauvais sang
se faire du mauvais sang#French

(informal, reflexive) ellipsis of se faire du mauvais sang: to worry, to fret


encore heureux

/ɑ̃.kɔʁ œ.ʁø/

/ɑ̃.kɔʁ ø.ʁø/

Ellipsis of c'est encore heureux, now archaic.

(informal) and a good job too! and a good thing too! well that's lucky! I'm glad to hear it! it's just as well! thank goodness!


patinage extrême

patinage de descente extrême
patinage de descente extrême#French

ellipsis of patinage de descente extrême


par le menu

(informal) in detail, in minute detail, with all the ins and outs


tout-terrain

→ Romanian: tot-teren (calque)

vélo tout-terrain


tout-terrain

tout-terrain (plural)
tout terrain (alternative)


jolokia

Borrowed from Assamese জলকীয়া (zolokia, “chili pepper”).

bor+

ghost pepper (“bhut jolokia”); ellipsis of piment jolokia


Fundy

Borrowed from English Fundy.
corruption of French fendu, from fendre (“to split”).
From being the body of water that splits mainland Acadia from the eastern peninsular Acadia that was lost to the British.


Kerguelen

Translingual: Kerguelen Facula

English: Kerguelen

Kerguélen (alternative)
Kergelen (alternative)
Kergélen (alternative)

Plateau des Kerguelen
Plateau des Kerguelen#French

Kerguelen Plateau
Kerguelen Plateau#English

ellipsis of Plateau des Kerguelen (= Kerguelen Plateau): a microcontinent and large igneous province in the Southern Ocean

Plateau des Kerguelen

Archipel Kerguelen
Archipel Kerguelen#French

Kerguelen Islands
Kerguelen Islands#English

ellipsis of Archipel Kerguelen and Îles Kerguelen (= Kerguelen Islands): an archipelago of Kerguelen, Southern Ocean

Archipel Kerguelen and Îles Kerguelen

ellipsis of Îles Kerguelen (= Kerguelen Islands): an overseas territory of France, on the eponymous archipelago

Îles Kerguelen

Kerguelen Island
Kerguelen Island#English

Pays de la Loire
Pays de la Loire#English

ellipsis of Île Kerguelen (= Kerguelen Island): an island of Ancenis, Loire-Atlantique department, Pays de la Loire, France, on the Loire River


la ramener

la ramener (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
la ramenant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
ramené (participle past)
la ramène (first-person indicative present singular)
la ramènes (indicative present second-person singular)
la ramène (indicative present singular third-person)
la ramenons (first-person indicative plural present)
la ramenez (indicative plural present second-person)
la ramènent (indicative plural present third-person)
la ramenais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
la ramenais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
la ramenait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
la ramenions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
la rameniez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
la ramenaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
la ramenai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
la ramenas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
la ramena (historic indicative past singular third-person)
la ramenâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
la ramenâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
la ramenèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
la ramènerai (first-person future indicative singular)
la ramèneras (future indicative second-person singular)
la ramènera (future indicative singular third-person)
la ramènerons (first-person future indicative plural)
la ramènerez (future indicative plural second-person)
la ramèneront (future indicative plural third-person)
la ramènerais (conditional first-person singular)
la ramènerais (conditional second-person singular)
la ramènerait (conditional singular third-person)
la ramènerions (conditional first-person plural)
la ramènerions (conditional first-person plural)
la ramèneriez (conditional plural second-person)
la ramèneriez (conditional plural second-person)
la ramèneraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
la ramène (first-person present singular subjunctive)
la ramènes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
la ramène (present singular subjunctive third-person)
la ramenions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
la rameniez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
la ramènent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
la ramenasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
la ramenasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
la ramenât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
la ramenassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
la ramenassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
la ramenassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
ramène-la (imperative second-person singular)
ramenons-la (first-person imperative plural)
ramenez-la (imperative plural second-person)


ne pas se fouler

LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-ne pas se fouler.wav

(informal, derogatory) not to overstrain oneself, not to over-exert oneself, not to overdo it, not to wear oneself out, not to kill oneself over (something), to take it easy


dont acte

→ Dutch: waarvan akte (calque)

Ellipsis of ce dont il est pris acte or ce dont il est donné acte.

Take note; heed this; govern yourselves accordingly


oignez vilain, il vous poindra

oignez vilain, il vous poindra ; poignez vilain, il vous oindra#French

ellipsis of oignez vilain, il vous poindra ; poignez vilain, il vous oindra


vieux de la vieille

fr-noun

vieux de la vieille m (plural vieux de la vieille)

Ellipsis of vieux de la vieille garde (“veteran of the old guard”).

ellipsis

(informal) veteran, old hand, old-timer, old-school one, old boy, boy of the old brigade


col roulé

ellipsis of pull à col roulé: turtleneck sweater, turtleneck (sweater with such a collar)


t'occupe

mind your own business
mind one's own business

(informal) don't worry about that; mind your own business


à concurrence de

LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-à concurrence de.wav

up to, up to a limit of, up to a maximum of


Varennes

English: Varennes

ellipsis of Varennes-en-Argonne: a commune of Meuse department, France


Head-Smashed-In

Borrowed from English Head-Smashed-In (“tête fracassée”).

bor+

précipice à bisons Head-Smashed-In#French

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

Head-Smashed-In; ellipsis of précipice à bisons Head-Smashed-In (“Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump”)


Covid

COVID (alternative)
COVIDE (alternative)
Covide (alternative)
covide (alternative)

L'application Stop Covid sera-t-elle en service le 11 mai ? C'est en tout cas ce que souhaite le gouvernement.

2020 April 26, “Stop Covid : être prêts le 11 mai est « un défi », estime Cédric O [Stop Covid: To be ready May 11th is ‘a challenge’, according to Cédric O]”, in Le Point:

Will the app Stop Covid go online May 11th? In any case, that is what the government wants.

Le centre hospitalier de Saintonge a concrétisé ce lundi la première vague de vaccination contre le Covid. Priorité au personnel de santé et aux 1 200 résidents de maisons de retraite.

2021 January 5, Phillipe Ménard, “Covid-19 : en Charente-Maritime, l’acte I de la vaccination [COVID-19: Act I of vaccination in Charente-Maritime]”, in Sud Ouest:

The Saintonge hospital center began the first wave of vaccinations against Covid on Monday. Priority is given to healthcare workers and the 1,200 residents of retirement homes.

Oui, et 80 000 en sont mortes, d'autres en ont réchappé parfois après quelques semaines sous respirateur (heureusement on arrive souvent à l'éviter), et beaucoup sont restées malades des formes prolongées, le fameux Covid long.

2021 February 11, Négocions (user name), “(comment) Coronavirus : près de 3,4 millions de malades et 80 443 morts en France, après les 296 du jour [Coronavirus: Nearly 3.4 million sick and 80,443 dead in France, after today’s 296]”, in Midi Libre:

Yes, 80,000 have died, and others have gotten by with a few weeks on a respirator (thankfully they are often able to avoid that), and many remain ill with prolonged forms, the famous long Covid.

(pathology, virology) ellipsis of Covid-19


Vouillé

From a form related to the Late Latin campus Vogladēnsis mentioned by Gregory of Tours. .


soins intensifs

être aux soins intensifs

to be in intensive care, to be in the ICU

(medicine, by ellipsis) intensive care unit, ICU


comme si de rien

comme si de rien n'était
comme si de rien n'était#French

(informal) ellipsis of comme si de rien n'était


Canso

Borrowed from English Canso, from French Canseau, from Mi'kmaq Kamsok.

détroit de Canso
détroit de Canso#French

Canso (ellipsis of détroit de Canso (= Strait of Canso): a strait in Nova Scotia, Canada)

Canso (ellipsis of cratère Canso (= Canso Crater): a crater in Mars)


Grasse

English: Grasse

Grasse; A placename
ellipsis of Pays de Grasse


Gretzky

Borrowed from Belarusian Грэцкі (Hrecki).

(ice hockey, figuratively) Gretzky; ellipsis of Wayne Gretzky


Néville

English: Neville

Borrowed from Norman Neville, from Old French Neville (“Néel's estate”) or Neuville (“new settlement”).

Neville (ellipsis of Néville-sur-Mer: a settlement in Manche department, Normandy, France)


Andrettis

Andrettis; plural of Andretti; ellipsis of Mario Andrettis


coupe choux

coupes choux (plural)
coupe-choux (alternative)
coupe chou (alternative)
coupe-chou (alternative)

rasoir coupe-choux
rasoir coupe-choux#French

(slang) a straight razor; ellipsis of rasoir coupe-choux; synonym of rasoir droit


les plus courtes sont les meilleures

les plaisanteries les plus courtes sont les meilleures#French

ellipsis of les plaisanteries les plus courtes sont les meilleures


à qui ai-je l'honneur

Ellipsis of à qui ai-je l'honneur de parler ?

ellipsis

(formal) with whom do I have the pleasure of speaking?


Chambord

(by ellipsis) the Castle of Chambord (Château de Chambord)


faire que sage

Ellipsis of faire (ce) que sage (ferait) (“to do what a wise man would do, to act as a wise man would”).


faire que fou

Ellipsis of faire (ce) que fou (ferait) (“to do what a madman would do, to act as a madman would”).

(literary) to act like a madman, to act crazy


y'a plus qu'à

Colloquial ellipsis of il n'y a plus qu'à X (literally “now all that's left is to X”).

C'était tout vu ! Y'avait plus qu'à ! Aimer. Vivre. Rire. Exister.

2016, Gaël Faye, Petit Pays [Small Country]:

put that into practice
put into practice

(informal) now all we have to do is to put that into action, and now you gotta put that into practice (now that someone knows all that there is to know about something, there's nothing left but to do it)


24 Sussex

Ellipsis of le 24, promenade Sussex or 24, rue Sussex.

le 24, Sussex (alternative)
le 24 Sussex (alternative)
24, rue Sussex (alternative)
24 rue Sussex (alternative)
le 24, rue Sussex (alternative)
le 24 rue Sussex (alternative)
24, promenade Sussex (alternative)
24 promenade Sussex (alternative)
le 24, promenade Sussex (alternative)
le 24 promenade Sussex (alternative)

(Canadian politics, idiomatic) 24 Sussex; alternative form of 24, Sussex


frémont

ellipsis of gros frémont, a variety of pear (“fruit”)


bôrô

Borrowed from a Mande language with a noun meaning “sack”. Used suddenly since 1998 in French.

Le retour du bôrô d’enjaillement est pris au sérieux par des éléments des forces de l’ordre, particulièrement ceux du commissariat de Police du 24ème arrondissement, au niveau de l’ancien corridor, sur la route de Grand-Bassam. « Nous avons des informations que les jeunes ont repris le bôrô. Nous avons donc fait des postes de contrôle et de surveillance sur l’étendue du territoire de notre compétence entre Port-Bouët et Grand-Bassam.

2018 November 10, “Abidjan : Le bôrô d’enjaillement est de retour”, in linfodrome:

bôrô d'enjaillement
bôrô d'enjaillement#French

ellipsis of bôrô d'enjaillement (“a kind of game played by yobs consisting of jumping onto the decks of vehicles in running traffic (originally busses, later minibusses)”, literally “sack of enjoyment”)


Voiture

Translingual: Voiture

astroïde Voiture
astroïde Voiture#French


tue-mouche

Entre nous, on appelle ça les soirées tue-mouches et ça veut tout dire.

1999, Anna Gavalda, “Ambre”, in Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part, →ISBN:

papier tue-mouches
papier tue-mouches#French

ellipsis of papier tue-mouches (“flypaper”)


Crécy

English: Crecy

ellipsis of Crécy-en-Ponthieu: a commune and village in Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France

Crécy-en-Ponthieu

ellipsis of forêt de Crécy (= Crecy Forest): a forest in Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France


à une prochaine

(informal) alternative form of à la prochaine


Castellet

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur#English

Castellet (ellipsis of Le Castellet: a commune of Var department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)

Castellet (ellipsis of Castellet-en-Luberon: a commune of Vaucluse department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)

Castellet (ellipsis of Le Castellet: a commune of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)


potron-minet

Ellipsis of dès potron-minet, of uncertain origin. The original locution [1640] was dès le poitron-jacquet (“from dawn”). It was composed of Old French poitron, from the posterio (“hindquarters", "ass"”) (compare English posterior), accompanied by jacquet, the name of the squirrel, literally meaning "as soon as you see the squirrel's backside peeking out". The term evolved to potron-jacquet or potron-jaquet and finally to potron-minet by substitution of jacquet with minet ("cat").
The Burgundian term pauitrou-jaiquai or potrou jacquet also referred to early morning, from the grazing jacquet. It has been suggested that potron meant "little one," and that the locution meant "the little one of the minet (cat) or jacquet (name of the squirrel in Normandy)." However, the real lesson is that the expression means "as soon as the cat or squirrel goes to graze," i.e., early in the morning. The word patron is a peculiar corruption of this.
Compare with Gallo chat-de-boéz (“squirrel”, literally “cat of the woods”) from Breton kazh koad.

noncog

à potron-minet, dès potron-minet


c'est moi

c'est moi qui te remercie
c'est moi qui te remercie#French

c'est moi qui vous remercie
c'est moi qui vous remercie#French

ellipsis of c'est moi qui te remercie or c'est moi qui vous remercie, used as a response of merci


îlot de chaleur

fr-noun

îlot de chaleur m (plural îlots de chaleur)

îlot de chaleur urbain
îlot de chaleur urbain#French

urban heat island; ellipsis of îlot de chaleur urbain


aller se faire

LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-aller se faire.wav

LL-Q150 (fra)-DenisdeShawi-aller se faire.wav

Ellipsis of aller se faire foutre of aller se faire mettre.

Va te faire !


Cavalaire

Cavalaire-sur-Mer (ellipsis of Cavalaire-sur-Mer: a commune and town in Var department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, France)


au plaisir

Ellipsis of au plaisir de vous revoir. Compare Dutch tot genoegen.


interrogative indirecte

interrogative indirecte f (plural interrogatives indirectes)

Ellipsis of proposition interrogative indirecte.


interrogative directe

fr-noun

interrogative directe f (plural interrogatives directes)

Ellipsis of proposition interrogative directe.


côté obscur

passer du côté obscur, basculer du côté obscur

to go over to the dark side, to turn to the dark side

dark side of the Force
dark side of the Force

(figuratively) dark side of the Force, dark side


souchet

souchet comestible
souchet comestible#French

Cyperus esculentus
Cyperus esculentus#Translingual

(often) ellipsis of souchet comestible (Cyperus esculentus); chufa


ne pas en ficher une

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-ne pas en ficher une.wav

ne pas en foutre une
ne pas en foutre une#French

alternative form of ne pas en foutre une


vos gueules

(slang, offensive, vulgar) shut your mouth!, shut up!, shut it!


au figuré

(linguistics) figuratively, in the figurative sense


créance client

fr-noun

créance client f (plural créances clients)

(accounting, chiefly in the plural) account receivable (amount recorded as being owed by a customer for sales on credit)


dette fournisseur

dette fournisseur f (plural dettes fournisseurs)

(accounting, chiefly in the plural) account payable (amount of money that is owed by a customer to its suppliers of goods and services and is counted by the customer as a current unpaid debt)


Prigogine

From Russian Пригожин (Prigožin). Doublet of Prigojine.

11964 Prigogine
11964 Prigogine#Translingual

ellipsis of 11964 Prigogine: an asteroid in Main Belt, Solar System


Supérieur

English: Superior, Superia

From supérieur, from Latin superior. From being the highest in geographic elevation of the Great Lakes of North America.

Lake Superior: ellipsis of Lac Supérieur; the largest and highest of the Great Lakes of North America


lacrymo

lacrymo m (usually uncountable, plural lacrymo or lacrymos)

[…]alors que des policiers de la Brav-M, la brigade de répression des actions violentes motorisées héritière des sinistres « voltigeurs », arrosent copieusement de lacrymo et d'insultes des manifestants pacifiques, […]

2023 April, Alexandre Lord, “Good cops, bad cops”, in Siné mensuel, number 128, →ISSN, page 4:

(informal) ellipsis of gaz lacrymogène (“tear gas”)


Égée

l'Égée (canonical feminine)
Egée (alternative)
Ægée (alternative archaic)

Borrowed from Latin aegaeus, as it was used in Aegaeum mare (“the Aegean Sea”), from Ancient Greek Αἰγαῖος (Aigaîos, “of or relating to Aegeus”).

der

ellipsis of la mer Égée (“the Aegean Sea”)


Tyrrhénienne

la mer Tyrrhénienne
mer Tyrrhénienne#French

ellipsis of la mer Tyrrhénienne (“the Tyrrhenian Sea”)


Trois Glorieuses

les Trois Glorieuses (canonical feminine plural)

Ellipsis of trois glorieuses journées (literally “three glorious [days]”).

ellipsis

(history) The three days of the French July Revolution of 1830, from July 27 to 29.


Notre-Dame

(by ellipsis) Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris


mettre les bouts

LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-mettre les bouts.wav

LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-mettre les bouts.wav


à bon entendeur

LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-à bon entendeur.wav

Ellipsis of à bon entendeur ne faut qu’une parole (“A word to the wise is sufficient”).

Used as an encouragement to the listener to make good use of the information provided.


Neuilly

Hé mec, je me présente : je m'appelle Charles-Henri Du Pré / J'habite à Neuilly dans un quartier mais alors, paumé !

1991, “Auteuil, Neuilly, Passy”, in Bouleversifiant, performed by Les Inconnus:


coq-à-l'âne

⇒ Scots: cockalane

Ellipsis of passer du coq à l'âne (“to go from the rooster to the donkey”).


chauffe-moteur

fr-noun

chauffe-moteur m (plural chauffe-moteurs)

chauffe + moteur: ellipsis of chauffe-bloc moteur

chauffe-bloc moteur
chauffe-bloc moteur#French

block heater: synonym of chauffe-bloc moteur


Azincourt

Bataille d'Azincourt
w:fr:Bataille d'Azincourt

(historical) ellipsis of Bataille d'Azincourt (“Battle of Agincourt”)


Comtat

Comtat Venaissin
Comtat Venaissin#French