sole

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *sola, from Latin solea.


jabot

Possibly related to gaver (“to force-feed”), or from Vulgar Latin *gaba (“maw, mullet”). Or, possibly a Celtic borrowing (compare Irish gob (“beak”), Gaulish *gobbos (“mouth”)).


cul

Inherited from Middle French cul, from Old French cul, from Latin cūlus, from Proto-Indo-European *kuH-l-, zero-grade without s-mobile form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).

le beurre, l’argent du beurre et le cul de la crémière

Ils ont du cul.

(informal, France) good luck or good fortune


raisin

Inherited from Old French raisin, from Late Latin racīmus, from Latin racēmus. Doublet of racème, a borrowing.


ouïe

Deverbal of ouïr, corresponding to Latin audīta < audītus. Compare Occitan ausida, Catalan oïda, Spanish oído, Portuguese ouvido, Italian udito, Romansch udida, Friulian uldide.


blanquette

Borrowed from Provençal blanqueto, a diminutive of blanc (“white”), derived, through early Medieval Latin blancus, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”). Equivalent to blanc (“white”) + -ette (feminine diminutive suffix). Doublet of blanchette.

af

(countable or uncountable) sparkling white wine from Languedoc made from white grapes of the "mauzac" variety


kif

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, “opiate”).


garrot

desctree

→ Spanish: garrote
→ San Juan Atzingo Popoloca: caroti

From Provençal garra (“leg”) (see jarret) + the suffix -ot.


tabac

des plantations de tabac

(uncountable, botany) tobacco (any plant of the genus Nicotiana)


vigne

Inherited from Middle French vigne, from Old French vigne, from Vulgar Latin vinia, from Latin vīnea (“vines in a vineyard”), from vīneus (“related to wine”), derived from vīnum (“wine”), from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“vine, wine”).


corbeau

fr-noun

corbeau m (plural corbeaux, feminine corbelle)

→ English: corbeau

Inherited from Middle French corbeau m, from Old French corbel m, itself either a diminutive of corp m (“raven”), or from a Late Latin corbellus, corvellus m, from Latin corvus m (Vulgar Latin variant *corbus m).

(historical) corvus (grappling hook used by the Romans in naval warfare)


écaille

Inherited from Middle French escaille, from Old French escaille (“scale”), from Frankish *skallija (“scale, shell”), from Proto-Germanic *skaljō (“scale, shell, husk”) ( > English shell), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut, part, sunder, split, divide”).
Compare Italian scaglia. Doublet of écale.


évent

blowhole (spiracle on the top of the head through which cetaceans breathe)


cerque

From New Latin cercus, from Ancient Greek κέρκος (kérkos, “tail”).


dard

→ Italian: dardo

→ Portuguese: dardo

→ Spanish: dardo

Via Old French dart, from Frankish *daroth (compare Old High German tart, Old Norse darradr).


feuillet

Diminutive of Old French feuil (with -et), from Latin folia.


viognier

Unknown. Possibly named after the French city of Vienne, where it is grown, or from the Roman pronunciation of Latin via Gehennae (“road to Hell”).


rouget

→ English: rouget

Inherited from Middle French rouget, from Old French rouget, roget. By surface analysis, rouge + -et.


pétard

→ Italian: petardo

→ Spanish: petardo

(attributive, of colors) bright; shiny; eyecatching


épucer

épucer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
épuçant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
épucé (participle past)
épuce (first-person indicative present singular)
épuces (indicative present second-person singular)
épuce (indicative present singular third-person)
épuçons (first-person indicative plural present)
épucez (indicative plural present second-person)
épucent (indicative plural present third-person)
épuçais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
épuçais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
épuçait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
épucions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
épuciez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
épuçaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
épuçai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
épuças (historic indicative past second-person singular)
épuça (historic indicative past singular third-person)
épuçâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
épuçâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
épucèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
épucerai (first-person future indicative singular)
épuceras (future indicative second-person singular)
épucera (future indicative singular third-person)
épucerons (first-person future indicative plural)
épucerez (future indicative plural second-person)
épuceront (future indicative plural third-person)
épucerais (conditional first-person singular)
épucerais (conditional second-person singular)
épucerait (conditional singular third-person)
épucerions (conditional first-person plural)
épuceriez (conditional plural second-person)
épuceraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
épuce (first-person present singular subjunctive)
épuces (present second-person singular subjunctive)
épuce (present singular subjunctive third-person)
épucions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
épuciez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
épucent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
épuçasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
épuçasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
épuçât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
épuçassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
épuçassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
épuçassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
épuce (imperative second-person singular)
épuçons (first-person imperative plural)
épucez (imperative plural second-person)

From é- + puce + -er. Compare Spanish espulgar.

(veterinary medicine) to deflea (remove fleas from an animal)


dature

Alternative form of datura (“datura”) (Datura)


datura

Dictionnaire de la langue française
Littré
Émile Littré

Borrowed from Portuguese, ultimately from Sanskrit धत्तूर (dhattūra). Littré's Dictionnaire de la langue française states it comes from Arabic and ultimately from Persian.


stramonium

(botany) Alternative form of stramoine (“stramonium”)


poitrail

Originally poitral, with change of suffix after -ail, from Latin pectoralis. Doublet of pectoral.


aiguillon

Inherited from Old French aguillon, aguillun, awillon, from Early Medieval Latin acūleōnem. Reshaped according to aiguille (“needle”).


nageoire caudale

fr-noun

nageoire caudale f (plural nageoires caudales)


tamien

Mental de charbonneur, j’me fais un gros tamien, et j’me poste à 10 heures

2022 August 15, “Vida” (1:57 from the start), Zitoune (lyrics):

Mindset of a coaler, I make myself a big spliff, then I stand myself up for 10 hours


Chaouch

Le Chaouch est répandu sur toutes les côtes de la Méditerranée, depuis l’Algérie et l’Égypte jusqu’à l’Adriatique, mais il est le plus particulièrement cultivé en Turquie d’Europe, en Turquie d’Asie, en Grèce et en Crimée.

1901, Étienne Salomon, R. Salomon, “Chaouch”, in Pierre Viala, editor, Ampélographie, Traité général de viticulture, volume 2, Paris: Masson et cie, →OCLC, page 200:

(agriculture) Chaouch (“a cultivar of vinifera grape”)


colombard

Comme ce vin, par exemple, issu de trois cépages typiques de la région, colombard, sauvignon et gros manseng.

2015 September 16, “Notre sélection de vins du Sud-Ouest 3,40 à 8,99 euros”, in Le Monde:

a white grape variety from Charentes; a wine made from these grapes


andouiller

Inherited from Old French andoillee, antoillier. Cognate of English antler.

(hunting) tine (a small horn that grows in the antlers of a deer, buck, or roe deer)


stramoine

Datura stramonium
Datura stramonium#Translingual


bréchet

Inherited from Middle French brechet, brichet, bruchet, from Middle English brusket (whence modern English brisket), from Old Danish bryske, from Old Norse brjósk, from Proto-Germanic *breuską, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to break”). Cognate with German Brausche (“bruise, bump”).


manoque

époularder

to pull apart the tobacco leaves from the roll to cleanse them

manoquage

manoquer (“to put the tobacco into rolls”)


double-cloche

fr-noun

double-cloche f (plural doubles-cloches)


herbe au diable

herbe au diable f (plural herbes au diable)

Synonym of stramoine (“jimsonweed”) (Datura stramonium)


datura fastueux

datura fastueux m (plural daturas fastueux)


double cloche

double cloche f (plural doubles cloches)


herbe du diable

herbe du diable f (plural herbes du diable)


pomme épineuse d'Égypte

pomme épineuse d’Égypte f (plural pommes épineuses d’Égypte)

pomme épineuse d’ Égypte (canonical feminine)
pommes épineuses d’Égypte (plural)


pomme épineuse

pomme épineuse f (plural pommes épineuses)


pétou

J’rallume le pétou en pacha (pas ça)

2023 July 14, Larry (lyrics and music), “EN PÉPÉ 5”, 0:42:


dature inoffensive

dature inoffensive f (plural datures inoffensives)

Datura innoxia
Datura innoxia#Translingual

Delachaux et Niestlé
w:fr:Delachaux et Niestlé


herbe à Sitarane

herbe à Sitarane f (plural herbes à Sitarane)

After Sitarane, a famous thief and murderer from Réunion.

dature inoffensive
dature inoffensive#French

Synonym of dature inoffensive (Datura innoxia Mill.)