"coup de foudre" meaning in All languages combined

See coup de foudre on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: coups de foudre [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from French coup de foudre (“lightning strike”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|coup de foudre||lightning strike}} French coup de foudre (“lightning strike”) Head templates: {{en-noun|coups de foudre|nolinkhead=1}} coup de foudre (plural coups de foudre)
  1. A sudden unexpected event, especially an emotional one; love at first sight.
    Sense id: en-coup_de_foudre-en-noun-wUK3Ix3Z Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Noun [French]

IPA: /ku d(ə) fudʁ/ Forms: coups de foudre [plural]
Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} coup de foudre m (plural coups de foudre)
  1. lightning strike, thunderbolt Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-coup_de_foudre-fr-noun-lU1vDEkM
  2. (figuratively) love at first sight Tags: figuratively, masculine Categories (topical): Love
    Sense id: en-coup_de_foudre-fr-noun-ARFbfs7m Disambiguation of Love: 13 87 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 17 83

Noun [Italian]

Etymology: Borrowed from French coup de foudre. Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|it|fr|coup de foudre|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} French coup de foudre, {{bor+|it|fr|coup de foudre}} Borrowed from French coup de foudre Head templates: {{it-noun|m|#|head=coup de foudre}} coup de foudre m (invariable)
  1. coup de foudre Tags: invariable, masculine Synonyms: colpo di fulmine
    Sense id: en-coup_de_foudre-it-noun-PQjYtjQN Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for coup de foudre meaning in All languages combined (4.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "coup de foudre",
        "4": "",
        "5": "lightning strike"
      },
      "expansion": "French coup de foudre (“lightning strike”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French coup de foudre (“lightning strike”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "coups de foudre",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "coups de foudre",
        "nolinkhead": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "coup de foudre (plural coups de foudre)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 84",
          "text": "The encounter with Laura that Good Friday was a coup de foudre, and for the rest of his life he was to adore her, mostly from afar.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Pamela Anderson, Love, Pamela",
          "text": "They immediately fell madly in love. A lightning bolt. Coup de foudre.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sudden unexpected event, especially an emotional one; love at first sight."
      ],
      "id": "en-coup_de_foudre-en-noun-wUK3Ix3Z",
      "links": [
        [
          "sudden",
          "sudden"
        ],
        [
          "emotional",
          "emotional"
        ],
        [
          "love at first sight",
          "love at first sight"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "coup de foudre"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "coups de foudre",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "coup de foudre m (plural coups de foudre)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: coup de tonnerre"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "lightning strike, thunderbolt"
      ],
      "id": "en-coup_de_foudre-fr-noun-lU1vDEkM",
      "links": [
        [
          "lightning",
          "lightning"
        ],
        [
          "strike",
          "strike"
        ],
        [
          "thunderbolt",
          "thunderbolt"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "17 83",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "13 87",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "fr",
          "name": "Love",
          "orig": "fr:Love",
          "parents": [
            "Emotions",
            "Virtue",
            "Mind",
            "Ethics",
            "Human",
            "Philosophy",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Near-synonym: coup de cœur"
        },
        {
          "english": "When I met Henri, it was love at first sight!",
          "text": "Quand j’ai fait la connaissance d’Henri, ç’a été le coup de foudre!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "love at first sight"
      ],
      "id": "en-coup_de_foudre-fr-noun-ARFbfs7m",
      "links": [
        [
          "love at first sight",
          "love at first sight"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) love at first sight"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ku d(ə) fudʁ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "coup de foudre"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "loanword",
        "2": "Borrowed"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "coup de foudre",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "French coup de foudre",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "coup de foudre"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from French coup de foudre",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French coup de foudre.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "#",
        "head": "coup de foudre"
      },
      "expansion": "coup de foudre m (invariable)",
      "name": "it-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "coup de foudre"
      ],
      "id": "en-coup_de_foudre-it-noun-PQjYtjQN",
      "links": [
        [
          "coup de foudre",
          "coup de foudre#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "colpo di fulmine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "invariable",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "coup de foudre"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "coup de foudre",
        "4": "",
        "5": "lightning strike"
      },
      "expansion": "French coup de foudre (“lightning strike”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French coup de foudre (“lightning strike”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "coups de foudre",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "coups de foudre",
        "nolinkhead": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "coup de foudre (plural coups de foudre)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from French",
        "English terms derived from French",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 84",
          "text": "The encounter with Laura that Good Friday was a coup de foudre, and for the rest of his life he was to adore her, mostly from afar.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Pamela Anderson, Love, Pamela",
          "text": "They immediately fell madly in love. A lightning bolt. Coup de foudre.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sudden unexpected event, especially an emotional one; love at first sight."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sudden",
          "sudden"
        ],
        [
          "emotional",
          "emotional"
        ],
        [
          "love at first sight",
          "love at first sight"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "coup de foudre"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "French countable nouns",
    "French entries with incorrect language header",
    "French lemmas",
    "French masculine nouns",
    "French multiword terms",
    "French nouns",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "fr:Love"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "coups de foudre",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "coup de foudre m (plural coups de foudre)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: coup de tonnerre"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "lightning strike, thunderbolt"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lightning",
          "lightning"
        ],
        [
          "strike",
          "strike"
        ],
        [
          "thunderbolt",
          "thunderbolt"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "French terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Near-synonym: coup de cœur"
        },
        {
          "english": "When I met Henri, it was love at first sight!",
          "text": "Quand j’ai fait la connaissance d’Henri, ç’a été le coup de foudre!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "love at first sight"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "love at first sight",
          "love at first sight"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) love at first sight"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ku d(ə) fudʁ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "coup de foudre"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "loanword",
        "2": "Borrowed"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "coup de foudre",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "French coup de foudre",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "coup de foudre"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from French coup de foudre",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French coup de foudre.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "#",
        "head": "coup de foudre"
      },
      "expansion": "coup de foudre m (invariable)",
      "name": "it-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian countable nouns",
        "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
        "Italian indeclinable nouns",
        "Italian lemmas",
        "Italian masculine nouns",
        "Italian multiword terms",
        "Italian nouns",
        "Italian terms borrowed from French",
        "Italian terms derived from French"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "coup de foudre"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "coup de foudre",
          "coup de foudre#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "colpo di fulmine"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "invariable",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "coup de foudre"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). 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.