radio

An abbreviation of words like radiotélégramme, radiotélégraphiste, radiodiffusion, etc. Compare English radio.


radio

→ Persian: رادیو (râdiyo)


dilettante

fr-noun

dilettante m or f by sense (plural dilettantes)


black

C’est qu’en France, les blancs n’existent pas et par contre la façon de parler des nonblancs existe et évolue avec le temps. Parce qu’effectivement, d’abord on était sur des termes purement et simplement racistes avec « bamboula, negro, nègre, bicot, bougnoule » et puis après ça a évolué et on est arrivé à « black, beur »… Donc je sais pas quand est-ce que ça a commencé exactement, moi je marque ça aux années 80, le hip hop, voilà, la black music…

In France, there are no Whites, but names for non-Whites are constantly evolving. First we had terms that were purely and simply racist, like jigaboo, negro, nigger, coon, sambo... That evolved until we got to Black, Brownie... I'm not sure when that came in, but I guess it was the 1980s, with hip-hop and "Black music."


boss

boss m or f by sense (plural boss or bosses)


bi

From bisexuel, or possibly directly from English bi.


people

Since 2000, named after People, an American weekly magazine that specializes in celebrity news, human-interest stories, and gossip. Doublet of peuple and pueblo.

Le novice en politique contre le mammouth « Éducation nationale ». Ça mérite la sympathie. Et puis c’est un people. Les gens aiment et détestent à la fois. Ils sont fascinés. Le bonheur sur papier glacé. Les vacances entre Saint-Trop’, la Martinique et Deauville.

2004, Emmanuel Davidenkoff, Didier Hassoux, “Luc Ferry: une comédie du pouvoir, 2002-2004”, in Luc Ferry: A Comedy of Power, 2002-2004, Hachette, →ISBN:

The political novice against the mammoth "National Education". That merited sympathy. Then, too, he was a celebrity. People loved and hated at the same time. They were fascinated. Happiness on ice paper. Vacations between Saint-Tropez, Martinique, and Deauville.

2008, Martine Delvaux, "L’égoïsme romantique de Frédéric Beigbeder" ("Frédéric Beigbeder's L’égoïsme romantique (Romantic Egotism)"), in Alain-Philippe Durand (editor), Frédéric Beigbeder et ses doubles (Frédéric Beigbeder and His Doubles), Rodopi, page 95

Oscar Dufresne is a celebrity who is anti-celebrity, a powerless macho man, an intellectual who says nothing intelligent, a fake sadist and a fake masochist, an anti-autobiographer.

Oscar Dufresne est un people anti-people, un macho impuissant, un intellectuel qui ne dit rien d’intelligent, un faux sadique et un faux masochiste, un anti-autobiographe.

(countable) a celebrity, celebrities, famous person(s)


dev

(computing) Synonym of développeur (“dev”)


Moscovite

Moscovite m or f by sense (plural Moscovites)

Muscovite (resident or native of Moscow; used of both genders)


pirate

Inherited from Old French pirate, borrowed from Latin pīrāta.


homo

gay (homosexual person, especially male)


veto

Nous avons dû emmener le chien chez le veto.


teenager

teenager m or f by sense (plural teenagers)


commodore

commodore m or f by sense (plural commodores)

Borrowed from Dutch kommandeur, from Middle French commandeur; from Latin commendare, from com- + mandare, from mandō (“to order, command”).

capitaine de vaisseau
capitaine de vaisseau

capitaine de croiseur
capitaine de croiseur

(military, nautical) commodore, a naval military rank between captain (capitaine de vaisseau or capitaine de croiseur) and rear admiral (contre-amiral)


snob

C’est un snob.


pro

Il est très pro.


pro

Elle est une vraie pro.

Nous avons affaire à un pro !

(informal) a whiz, someone who is very good at something


junior

Borrowed from Latin juniorem; Doublet of geindre. Cf. also the inherited Old French oblique case gignor.


proche

Inherited from Old French proche, derived from prochain, or from Latin propius.


philosophe

philosophe m or f by sense (plural philosophes)

Haitian Creole: filozòf

→ English: philosophe

→ Romanian: filozof

→ Turkish: filozof


dirigiste

dirigiste m or f by sense (plural dirigistes)


évêque

Haitian Creole: evèk

→ Khmer: អេវ៉េគ (ʼeeveek)

→ Malagasy: eveka

Inherited from Old French evesque, inherited from Late Latin episcopus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos).


colocataire

colocataire m or f by sense (plural colocataires, feminine (nonstandard) colocatrice)

colocataires (plural)
colocatrice (feminine nonstandard)

flatmate, roommate, housemate, joint tenant, cotenant


lycanthrope

lycanthrope m or f by sense (plural lycanthropes)

From Ancient Greek λυκάνθρωπος (lukánthrōpos, “human-wolf”).


adamite

fr-noun

adamite m or f by sense (plural adamites)


judoka

judoka m or f by sense (plural judokas, feminine judokate)


esclave

esclave m or f by sense (plural esclaves)

Haitian Creole: esklav

Inherited from Middle French and Old French esclave, a borrowing from Medieval Latin sclavus (“slave”), from Late Latin Sclavus (“Slav”). Doublet of slave.


misanthrope

misanthrope m or f by sense (plural misanthropes)

From Ancient Greek μισάνθρωπος (misánthrōpos), from μισέω (miséō, “to hate”) and ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man; human”).


kamikaze

fr-noun

kamikaze m or f by sense (plural kamikazes)

Borrowed from Japanese 神風 (かみかぜ (kamikaze, “suicide flyer”, literally “divine wind”)).

bor+

<i class="Jpan mention" lang="ja">かみかぜ</i> (kamikaze, “suicide flyer”, literally “divine wind”)

kamikaze (person carrying out a suicide attack); suicide bomber


hermaphrodite

fr-noun

hermaphrodite m or f by sense (plural hermaphrodites)


dramaturge

dramaturge m or f by sense (plural dramaturges)

dramatij

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δραματουργός (dramatourgós).

lbor

δραματουργός

(theater) playwright (writer of plays for the theatre)


jute

Jute (member of an ancient Germanic people)


sage

Inherited from Middle French sage, from Old French sage, from Vulgar Latin *sapium from the Classical Latin verb sapiō.

(of a woman) Chaste, modest, irreproachable in conduct


sage

a person who is prudent, cautious, and judicious


bibliophile

fr-noun

bibliophile m or f by sense (plural bibliophiles)


europhile

europhile m or f by sense (plural europhiles)


mezzo-soprano

mezzo-soprano m or f by sense (plural mezzo-sopranos)


pivot

Inherited from Old French pivot, of uncertain origin. Compare Catalan piu (“pivot”), Spanish púa (“sharp point, spike”).

Pivot (handball) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ᶠʳ


partner

partner m or f by sense (plural partners)

(obsolete, except for in Quebec) partner


technophile

technophile m or f by sense (plural technophiles)


constable

constable m or f by sense (plural constables)


coco

From Middle French coche, coco, from Italian cocco and Spanish coco, both from Portuguese coco. The fruit was originally referred to by the Spanish equivalent of croque-mitaine (“bogeyman”), due to the spooky face-like appearance of the three dots at the end of the shell, which developed in coco.
As in English, the fruit was originally referred to as coco (in the 16th century), but in the 17th (as in English) it became usual to refer to it as a nut, in the form noix de coco (“coconut”).


coco

Duplication of initial co-, from communiste.


coco

Salut, coco !

(informal) friendly, joking term for a friend; pal, mate, buddy

Toi, mon coco, tu vas passer un sale quart d’heure !

You, buddy, are going to have a miserable quarter hour!

Vous ne perdez rien pour attendre, mes cocos !

You’re not losing anything by waiting, punks!

(informal, derogatory) aggressive, disdainful term of address, usually preceded by mon, ma, or mes. Roughly punk or buddy, as in “You wanna try, punk?”, or “Hey buddy, what do you think you’re doing?”


noble

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French noble, borrowed from Latin nōbilis according to the TLFi dictionary.


bobo

Et d’un point de vue sociologique, mieux vaut commander un simple café au lait pour préserver les berlinois des bobos et des hipsters.

2016, Mathilde Ramadier, Alberto Madrigal, Berlin 2.0, Futuropolis, →ISBN, page 47:

And from a sociological point of view, it is better to order a simple white coffee to protect Berliners from the bobos and the hipsters.


aveugle

aveugle m or f by sense (plural aveugles)

Inherited from Middle French aveugle from Old French avogle, from Late Latin ab oculīs (“without eyes”, literally “away from the eyes”), possibly a calque of Ancient Greek ἀπὸ ὀμμάτων (apò ommátōn) or more likely from Gaulish exops.
The current French form is either an exception to the normal sound shift from Latin '-cl-' or a semi-learned formation; cf. the dialectal and popular aveuil (older aveule, avule); see also œil.

der

au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois


sanguinaire

fr-noun

sanguinaire m or f by sense (plural sanguinaires)

Learned borrowing from Latin sanguinārius, from sanguis (whence French sang).


obligataire

fr-noun

obligataire m or f by sense (plural obligataires)


ombudsman

ombudsman m or f by sense (plural ombudsmans)

Borrowed from Swedish ombudsman, from Old Norse umboðsmaðr.

an appointed official within an organization whose duty is to investigate complaints against that organization by its customers, taxpayers, and sometimes employees, and often to act as a consultant to improve services and processes


matricide

matricide m or f by sense (plural matricides)


homicide

homicide m or f by sense (plural homicides)

homicide, killer (person who kills another)


homophobe

homophobe m or f by sense (plural homophobes)


Viking

Borrowed from Old Norse víkingr (“Viking”).


milliardaire

fr-noun

milliardaire m or f by sense (plural milliardaires)

→ German: Milliardär

→ Finnish: miljardööri

→ Romanian: miliardar

→ Russian: миллиарде́р (milliardér)

→ Turkish: milyarder


claustrophobe

claustrophobe m or f by sense (plural claustrophobes)

From Latin claustrum (“a shut in place”) + -phobe.


troglodyte

troglodyte m or f by sense (plural troglodytes)

Learned borrowing from Latin trōglodyta (“cave dwelling people”), itself borrowed from Ancient Greek τρωγλοδύτης (trōglodútēs, “one who dwells in holes”).


aide

Inherited from Middle French ayde, from Old French aide, aie, from aidier (modern Old French aider (“to help”)). The medial -d- would've been regularly lost, but was reinserted on the basis of the verb.


fada

Il est pas tranquille celui-là, c’est un fada !

Je sème des rimes tant pis si j’passe pour un fada / Que je récolte nada, j’reste hip hop : soldat sans FAMAS / Se parque devant les liasses comme le reste de la populace

1998, “Sans Rémission”, in Si Dieu veut…, performed by Fonky Family:

I sow these rhymes so much I pass for a nutter / though I reap nada, I'm sticking with hip-hop: soldier without a rifle / parked before the stacks like the rest of the people


jeune

Inherited from Middle French jeune, from Old French juene, juefne, from Vulgar Latin *iŏvenem, from Latin iuvenem.

Tu murmures, vieillard ; vois ces jeunes mourir, / Vois-les marcher, vois-les courir / A des morts, il est vrai, glorieuses et belles, / Mais sûres cependant, et quelquefois cruelles.

1678, Jean de La Fontaine, La Mort et le Mourant:

Old murmuring man, behold these youths who die ; / Behold them march, or rather, see them fly / To certain death, a glorions death, 'tis true, / Yet oft, alas ! too horrible to view.


élève

→ Czech: elév

→ Danish: elev

→ Norwegian Bokmål: elev

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: elev

→ Polish: elew

→ Romanian: elev

→ Slovak: elév

→ Swedish: elev

Deverbal from élever (“to raise, bring up, elevate”).

deverbal

(masculine, referring to a boy) schoolboy, pupil, student

(masculine, referring to a child of unspecified sex) schoolchild, pupil, student


stool

Grégoire protesta; il n’était pas un stool.

1999, Chrystine Brouillet, Les Fiancées de l'Enfer, →ISBN, page 199:

(Canada, slang, derogatory) a denouncer or whistleblower; a stoolie


enfant

Saint Dominican Creole French: z'enfant

Inherited from Middle French enfant, from Old French enfant, from Latin īnfantem.

ils vécurent heureux et eurent beaucoup d’enfants

innocent comme l’enfant qui vient de naître

enfant de Paris

enfant des États-Unis

enfant du pays


ultra

(historical) an ultra-royalist during the Bourbon Restoration period in France


gastronome

fr-noun

gastronome m or f by sense (plural gastronomes)


beatnik

beatnik m or f by sense (plural beatniks)


urophile

urophile m or f by sense (plural urophiles)


germanophone

germanophone m or f by sense (plural germanophones)


tzigane

tzigane m or f by sense (plural tziganes)


négationniste

négationniste m or f by sense (plural négationnistes)

(politics, philosophy) denialist, denier, negationist


Cheyenne

Cheyenne m or f by sense (plural Cheyennes)


bougnoule

bougnoule m or f by sense (plural bougnoules)

Borrowed from Wolof ñuul (“black, to be black”), wu ñuula (“a person who is black”), fas wu ñuul (“black horse”), 1890. The original phrase is sometimes offensive in the Wolof language.

bor+

Jeune, j’ai le souvenir d’une madame Nicole / Instit’ qui pensait qu’un bougnoule n’était pas fait pour l’école

2005, “Thé à la menthe”, performed by La Caution:

I remember when I was young there was a Madame Nicole / A primary school teacher who thought that a wog was not cut out for school

À Amiens y a que des Noirs et des bougnoules, des crouilles t’y vas tu crois que t’en Afrique. Faut pas aller là-bas, c’est sûr que tu te fais dépouiller.

2014, Édouard Louis, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule [The End of Eddy], Le Seuil:

In Amiens there's nothing but blacks, wogs and Maghrebis; you go and you think you're in Africa. You mustn't go there; you'll definitely get robbed.

(ethnic slur) wog; raghead (person of North African descent)


aborigène

fr-noun

aborigène m or f by sense (plural aborigènes)

(very dated) a generally primitive native from the land


piscivore

piscivore m or f by sense (plural piscivores)


Raymond

a male given name, equivalent to English Raymond


secrétaire

secrétaire m or f by sense (plural secrétaires)

→ Polish: sekretarz

→ Romanian: secretar

→ Turkish: sekreter

Borrowed from Medieval Latin secrētārius, from Latin secrētus.


Cancer

Cancer (someone born with a Cancer star sign)


Corse

Inherited from Latin Corsica, from Ancient Greek Κορσική (Korsikḗ).

administrative region
administrative region

Corsica (an island, department, and administrative region of France, in the Mediterranean to the north of Sardinia)


Fermi

a surname from Italian, equivalent to English Fermi


Organ

Borrowed from Occitan Organ.
(Village): Attested on the Cassini map (1740s).


Vierge

From vierge (“virgin”), from Latin virgō.

(astronomy) the stellar constellation Virgo


cosmopolite

fr-noun

cosmopolite m or f by sense (plural cosmopolites)

Learned borrowing from Latin cosmopolītēs, itself borrowed from Koine Greek κοσμοπολίτης (kosmopolítēs, “citizen of the world”), from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “world”) + πολίτης (polítēs, “citizen”).

der

κοσμοπολίτης


reporter

reporter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
reportant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
reporté (participle past)
reporte (first-person indicative present singular)
reportes (indicative present second-person singular)
reporte (indicative present singular third-person)
reportons (first-person indicative plural present)
reportez (indicative plural present second-person)
reportent (indicative plural present third-person)
reportais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
reportais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
reportait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
reportions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
reportiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
reportaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
reportai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
reportas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
reporta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
reportâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
reportâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
reportèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
reporterai (first-person future indicative singular)
reporteras (future indicative second-person singular)
reportera (future indicative singular third-person)
reporterons (first-person future indicative plural)
reporterez (future indicative plural second-person)
reporteront (future indicative plural third-person)
reporterais (conditional first-person singular)
reporterais (conditional second-person singular)
reporterait (conditional singular third-person)
reporterions (conditional first-person plural)
reporteriez (conditional plural second-person)
reporteraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
reporte (first-person present singular subjunctive)
reportes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
reporte (present singular subjunctive third-person)
reportions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
reportiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
reportent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
reportasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
reportasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
reportât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
reportassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
reportassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
reportassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
reporte (imperative second-person singular)
reportons (first-person imperative plural)
reportez (imperative plural second-person)

Après avoir été reportées de nombreuses fois, les épreuves ont finalement eu lieu.

After having been postponed numerous times, the exams finally took place.

Graham avait reporté la fête, suggérant d’attendre la fin de l’enquête sur le violeur pour s’amuser.

1999, Chrystine Brouillet, Les Fiancées de l'Enfer, →ISBN, page 113:

Graham had put back the party, suggesting to wait until the investigation about the rapist was over to have fun.

Pour mieux saisir le problème, on se reportera au chapitre 4.

To better understand the issue, the reader is referred to chapter 4.

Cet idiot avait oublié de reporter un 3!

(mathematics and finance) to carry over or forward


reporter

fr-noun

reporter m or f by sense (plural reporters)

/ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/


androgyne

androgyne m or f by sense (plural androgynes)


garde

Inherited from Old French guarde, from the verb guarder (or less likely directly from Frankish *warda), from Frankish *wardōn (“to protect”). Compare Italian guardia, Spanish guarda. Cognate with English ward.

any person who performs regular service on a rotating basis.


tox

Y’a rien de glorieux, ça c’est pour les tox

1998, “Sans faire couler le sang”, in Don Choa (lyrics), Fonky Family (music), Si Dieu Veut:

There is nothing glorious, this is for the nitties.


Schiff

a Jewish surname from Yiddish [in turn from German]

Schiff: a surname from German
a Jewish surname from Yiddish


freelance

freelance m or f by sense (plural freelances)


homologue

homologue m or f by sense (plural homologues)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁμόλογος (homólogos, “agreeing, of one mind”). By surface analysis, homo- + -logue.

lbor

Le ministre s’est entretenu avec son homologue français.

The minister had a discussion with his French counterpart.


artiste

fr-noun

artiste m or f by sense (plural artistes)

→ English: artiste

→ Romanian: artist

→ Turkish: artist

→ Laz: ართისი (artisi)


baby-sitter

baby-sitter m or f by sense (plural baby-sitters)


ci-devant

ci-devant m or f by sense (plural ci-devant)

(historical, French Revolution) former aristocrat


politique

politique m or f by sense (plural politiques)

Learned borrowing from Latin polīticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πολιτικός (politikós).


hipster

hipster m or f by sense (plural hipsters)


bolchevique

bolchevique m or f by sense (plural bolcheviques)

→ Spanish: bolchevique

Borrowed from Russian большеви́к (bolʹševík).


esquire

fr-noun

esquire m or f by sense (plural esquires)


doctrinaire

doctrinaire m or f by sense (plural doctrinaires)


ivrogne

ivrogne m or f by sense (plural ivrognes, feminine ivrognesse)

Silene dioica
Silene dioica#Translingual


hypocrite

hypocrite m or f by sense (plural hypocrites)

→ Romanian: ipocrit.


gosse

Possibly alteration of gonze (feminine gonzesse).


pococurante

pococurante m or f by sense (plural pococurantes)


Descartes

English: Descartes

Descartes (“René Descartes”): A French philosopher and mathematician, who lived from 1596 to 1650.


transfuge

transfuge m or f by sense (plural transfuges)

Learned borrowing from Latin trānsfuga (“deserter”).

lbor

transfuge de classe


Hittite

fr-noun

Hittite m or f by sense (plural Hittites)


pupille

From Middle French pupille (14th c.), a borrowing from Latin pupillus, pupilla.


pupille

pupille m or f by sense (plural pupilles)

→ Polish: pupil


domestique

domestique m or f by sense (plural domestiques)

→ English: domestique

→ German: Domestik

Learned borrowing from Latin domesticus (“of the house, domestic; familiar; native”), from domus (“home, house; place of one's birth or residence, native country”).


drummer

fr-noun

drummer m or f by sense (plural drummers, feminine drummeuse)


critique

critique m or f by sense (plural critiques)

From Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós).


arctophile

arctophile m or f by sense (plural arctophiles)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos
Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos)lbor.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰil-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰílos
Ancient Greek φίλος (phílos)bor.
Latin -philalbor.
French -phile
French arctophile
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”) + -phile.

lbor

arctophile (one who has a fondness for teddy bears)


Monégasque

fr-noun

Monégasque m or f by sense (plural Monégasques)

Monégasque (resident or native of Monaco)


Annamite

Annamite m or f by sense (plural Annamites)


bibliophage

bibliophage m or f by sense (plural bibliophages)

Cette correspondance n’a pas été à l’abri de la rapacité d’un bibliophage fameux, qui, là comme ailleurs, a laissé des traces fâcheuses de son passage.

1851, Inventaire des titres recueillis par Samuel Guichenon, précédé de la table du Lugdunum Sacroprophanum, page xxxvj:

This correspondance wasn't spared by the rapacity of a famous bookworm, which, there as elsewhere, left annoying tracks in his wake.

Plus encore que la peur réelle de l’insecte bibliophage, les interdictions de consommation de nourriture ou de liquide dans les espaces renfermant des livres ne trouveraient-elles pas leur fondement dans la complexité des relations symboliques qu’entretiennent le livre et la nourriture depuis les origines ?

2010, Tania Van Hemelryck, “Mascher l’escripture. Livre, lecture et nourriture aux xivᵉ et xvᵉ siècles”, in Nelly Labère, editor, Être à Table au Moyen Âge, Casa de Velázquez, →ISBN, page 235:

More still than the real fear of the bookworm insect, would not prohibitions on the consumption of food or liquid in the spaces containing books find their foundation in the complexity of the symbolic relationships which have been maintained between books and food since the beginning?

Il s’intéresse à mille choses, lit sans fin, dévore tout, l’esprit ouvert à toutes les notions et à toutes les impressions, l’un des jouisseurs les plus éclectiques que j’aie jamais rencontrés, un véritable bibliophage enchanté.

2011, Jean-Pierre Otte, Un camp retranché en France, →ISBN:

He's interested in a thousand things, reads without end, devours everything, spirit open to all notions and all impressions, one of the most eclectic enjoyers that I've ever met, a veritable delighted bookworm.


bourgmestre

bourgmestre m or f by sense (plural bourgmestres)

Inherited from Old French bourgemaistre (with various variants), from Middle Dutch burchmeester and Middle High German burgemeister.


Anasazi

Anasazi m or f by sense (plural Anasazis)


malade

Inherited from Middle French malade, from Old French malade, from Latin male habitus (“ill-kept, not in good condition”).


coloc

(colloquial) Clipping of colocataire (“roomie, housemate, roommate”).


ministre

fr-noun

ministre m or f by sense (plural ministres, feminine ministresse)

ministres (plural)
ministresse (feminine)

From Old French, borrowed from Latin minister.

indigo bunting, a bird with taxonomic name Passerina cyanea


Noël

→ Khmer: ណូអែល (nouʼael)

→ Persian: نوئل (no'el)

→ Vietnamese: Nô-en

Inherited from Middle French Noël, from Old French Noel, Naël, inherited from Vulgar Latin *notālis, from Latin nātālis [diēs Dominī] (“birthday of the Lord”) with dissimilation of the first -a- to -o-. Doublet of natal.

inh

a male given name, equivalent to English Noel

(very rare) a female given name, more common in the form Noëlle


superbe

fr-noun

superbe m or f by sense (plural superbes)

w:Trésor de la langue française informatisé


camarade

camarade m or f by sense (plural camarades)

desctree

→ German: Kamerad
→ Polish: kamrat
→ Silesian: kamrat

English: comrade

Before 1571, camarade ("soldiers' dormitory") is feminine. 1587, in military slang camarade either masculine or feminine, with the sense of "who shares with someone else", thereafter "buddy"; 1869 political sense.
From Spanish camarada, itself from cámara (“chamber”) rather than Italian camerata which is slightly later but which influenced the form camerade which is attested in the 16th and 17th centuries. Both Italian and Spanish correspond to the construction of French chambrée.

On est camarades depuis le lycée.

We've been mates since secondary school. (UK)

We've been buddies since high school. (US)

Il y a encore des têtes à couper
Il y a encore des rois à dézinguer
Allons camarades pas question de se rendre
Il y a encore des forteresses à prendre. (Nono Futur, Goulag 666)

comrade (companion or fellow socialist or communist)


ailurophile

fr-noun

ailurophile m or f by sense (plural ailurophiles)

Coined parallel with or based on English ailurophile, based on Ancient Greek elements; see the English term for more.


Serbe

From Serbo-Croatian Srb, from Proto-Slavic *sьrbъ.


balletomane

balletomane m or f by sense (plural balletomanes)

English: balletomane


Lou

a diminutive of the male given name Louis

a diminutive of the female given name Louise


dingue

Probably derived from dinguer (“fall, strike”) or divaguer (“wander, blather”).

Ce truc me rend dingue!

Elle te rend din-din, dingue / Quand elle a son poom poom short / Et ton problème, c’est simplement qu’elle s’en moque / Elle te rend dingue, bwoy !

2000, “Elle te rend dingue”, in Un signe du temps, performed by Nuttea:

She drives you cra-cra-crazy / With her pum pum shorts / And your problem is that she just doesn't care / She drives you crazy, bwoy!


dingue

La célébrité me faisait mener une existence de dingue.

Fame was leading me to a crazy existence.


Dupont

LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-rue Pierre-Dupont.wav

du + pont (“bridge”). Most prevalent in Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments.


athée

From Latin atheos, from Ancient Greek ἄθεος (átheos).

Tous les enfans ſont des athées; ils n’ont aucune idée de Dieu: ſont-ils donc criminels à cauſe de cette ignorance?

1772, Paul-Henri Thiry (baron d') Holbach, Le Bon-Sens, ou, Idées Naturelles Opposées aux Idées Surnaturelles, London: Marc-Michel Rey, →LCCN, →OL, §30, page 22:

All children are born atheists; they have no idea of God. Are they then criminal on account of their ignorance?


poète

Haitian Creole: powèt

→ Russian: поэт (poet)

Borrowed from Latin poēta, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs).


agnostique

agnostique m or f by sense (plural agnostiques)


Toulouse

→ English: Toulouse

Previously Thoulouse; from Latin Tolōsa, probably of Gaulish origin (Volcae Tectosages), or possibly from an Iberian or Aquitanian name.

Toulouse (the capital city of the Haute-Garonne department, France; capital city of the region of Occitanie)


Toulouse

→ English: Toulouse


Belge

Belgian person, resident or native of Belgium; used of both genders


planétologue

planétologue m or f by sense (plural planétologues)


Tchèque

Tchèque m or f by sense (plural Tchèques)

→ Iranian Persian: چِک (ček)

→ Turkish: Çek

Czech (resident or native of the Czech Republic)


parachutiste

parachutiste m or f by sense (plural parachutistes)


capitaliste

capitaliste m or f by sense (plural capitalistes)


albinos

albinos m or f by sense (plural albinos)

desctree

→ Russian: альбинос (alʹbinos)
→ Georgian: ალბინოსი (albinosi)


mangaka

fr-noun

mangaka m or f by sense (plural mangakas)

Hiromu Arakawa est une jeune mangaka débutante quand elle envoie son premier projet chez un éditeur. L’histoire courte deviendra FullMetal Alchemist, un des mangas les plus vendus au Japon : 12 millions d’exemplaires !

2005 November 1, “Duck Action : 5 mangas inmangables ! [Duck Action: 5 Manga You Can’t Miss!]”, in Picsou Magazine (non-fiction), Disney Hachette Presse, page 27:

Hiromu Arakawa was a young mangaka debuting when she sent her first project to a publisher. That short story became FullMetal Alchemist, one of the best-selling manga in Japan: 12 million copies!


arbitre

arbitre m or f by sense (plural arbitres)

desctree

→ Russian: арбитр (arbitr)
→ Georgian: არბიტრი (arbiṭri)


convive

fr-noun

convive m or f by sense (plural convives)

Inherited from Old French convive, from Latin convīvium. Compare Friulian, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish convivio.

cog

Prothé passait parmi les convives, proposant des bières et des steaks de crocodile grillé.

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

Prothé passed among the guests, offering beers and grilled crocodile steaks.


externe

fr-noun

externe m or f by sense (plural externes)

(education) (a school student who doesn't stay in his establishment for meals or at night)


ladre

Anthroponymic. From Latin Lazarus (via the accusative Lazarum), via an intermediate form lazdre after the elision of the second a. The French form had the stress on the first syllable.
Doublet of Lazare, which was borrowed.


inséparable

inséparable m or f by sense (plural inséparables)


avare

From a modification of the older popular form aver after the original etymology, Latin avarus.


sans-abri

sans-abri m or f by sense (plural sans-abri or sans-abris)

Les sans-abri ont des problèmes à Paris.


athlète

athlète m or f by sense (plural athlètes)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-tromder.
Ancient Greek ἆθλον (âthlon)
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλέω (āthléō)
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂der.
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek ἀθλητής (athlētḗs)bor.
Latin āthlētalbor.
French athlète
Learned borrowing from Latin āthlēta, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀθλητής (athlētḗs), from ᾱ̓θλέω (āthléō) + -τής (-tḗs).

etymon

C’est un des plus grands athlètes de tous les temps.

He is one of the greatest athletes of all time.


complice

Learned borrowing from Late Latin complex.


complice

fr-noun

complice m or f by sense (plural complices)

→ German: Komplize


médecin

médecin m or f by sense (plural médecins)

Inherited from Middle French medecin, a back-formation from Old French medeciner (“to treat medically”). Replaced Old French mire, mege, meide, meie, etc. inherited from Latin medicus.


Nunavummiuq

fr-noun

Nunavummiuq m or f by sense (plural Nunavummiut)

Borrowed from Inuktitut ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥᐅᖅ (nonafommioq).


fleuriste

fr-noun

fleuriste m or f by sense (plural fleuristes)


semblable

semblable m or f by sense (plural semblables)

Il prenait soin de ses semblables.

(usually in the plural) something or someone that belongs to the same kind or species


interne

interne m or f by sense (plural internes)


planchiste

planchiste m or f by sense (plural planchistes)


sceptique

sceptique m or f by sense (plural sceptiques)

Inherited from Middle French sceptique, borrowed from Ancient Greek σκεπτικός (skeptikós) or possibly intermediately borrowed from New Latin scepticus.


collègue

collègue m or f by sense (plural collègues)


volontaire

volontaire m or f by sense (plural volontaires)

Inherited from Middle French voluntaire, from late Old French voluntaire, borrowed from Latin voluntārius (“voluntary; volunteer”), from voluntās (“free will”), from volō, velle (“wish, intend”). Compare volontiers, inherited from a related word.


bénévole

fr-noun

bénévole m or f by sense (plural bénévoles)

volunteer (someone who works voluntarily without payment)


greeter

greeter m or f by sense (plural greeters)

(tourism, anglicism) greeter (volunteer who shows tourists around their home city or region for free)


photographe

photographe m or f by sense (plural photographes)


adulte

Learned borrowing from Latin adultus (“grown up”), perfect participle of adolēscō (“to grow up”) (the present participle of which - adolēscens (“growing up”) - gave French adolescent).

lbor

Sans doute un certain non-conformisme agressif, une arrogance et une susceptibilité ombrageuse, une certaine surestimation de soi faite de complaisance et d’angoisse apparaîtront-elles plus tard dérisoires au jeune homme qui sort de l’adolescence. Mais ce sens de la singularité, de la solitude, ce goût de la pureté et de l’absolu, ce pouvoir d’étonnement et d’émerveillement, cette énergie même et cette avidité que l’on accorde d’ordinaire à la jeunesse, ne sont-ils pas des biens humains que l’adulte réalisateur, pratique, un peu blasé, a laissés flétrir?

1949, Paul Ricœur, Philosophie de la volonté:


responsable

fr-noun

responsable m or f by sense (plural responsables)

→ Portuguese: responsável

Inherited from Middle French responsable, corresponding to response (Modern French réponse) + -able.

inh+

La baladodiffusion est ainsi utilisée comme outil à potentiel cognitif, parce qu’elle permet, relativement facilement, de diffuser un contenu audio ou vidéo qui peut, par la suite, être écouté ou vu à tout moment par l’apprenant. Par ailleurs, les responsables du projet rappellent que les étudiants l’utilisent également pour écouter des balados de chroniques audio comme celles de The New England Journal of Medicine, une des plus importantes revues en médecine au monde.

2011, Christian Depover, Thierry Karsenti, Enseigner avec les technologies: Favoriser les apprentissages, développer des compétences, PUQ, →ISBN:

Therefore, podcasting is used as a tool for cognitive potential, because it allows for the relatively easy distribution of audio or video content, which, as a result, can be listened to or watched at any moment by the learner. Furthermore, the project managers remark that the students also use it to listen to audio podcast series, such as those of The New England Journal of Medicine, one of the most important medicine journals on Earth.


internaute

fr-noun

internaute m or f by sense (plural internautes)

From internet + -naute, stem of word such as aéronaute, cosmonaute, etc.


coprophage

coprophage m or f by sense (plural coprophages)

Borrowed from Latin coprophagus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κοπροφάγος (koprophágos), from κόπρος (kópros, “dung”) + -φάγος (-phágos, “eater; glutton”). Equivalent to copro- + -phage.


galactophage

galactophage m or f by sense (plural galactophages)

From Ancient Greek γαλακτοφάγος (galaktophágos, “milk-fed”). Found in the works of Voltaire.

uder

γαλακτοφάγος

For quotations using this term, see Citations:galactophage.


dentiste

fr-noun

dentiste m or f by sense (plural dentistes)


cynophile

cynophile m or f by sense (plural cynophiles)


altruiste

altruiste m or f by sense (plural altruistes)


coloriste

coloriste m or f by sense (plural coloristes)

→ Romanian: colorist


autiste

autiste m or f by sense (plural autistes)


diurne

→ Romanian: diurn (learned)

Learned borrowing from Latin diurnus. Doublet of jour.


fasciste

fasciste m or f by sense (plural fascistes)


invalide

invalide m or f by sense (plural invalides)


marxiste

marxiste m or f by sense (plural marxistes)

→ Persian: مارکسیست (mârksist)

→ Romanian: marxist

→ Turkish: Marksist


minimaliste

minimaliste m or f by sense (plural minimalistes)

Borrowed from English minimalist. By surface analysis, minimal + -iste.


pessimiste

pessimiste m or f by sense (plural pessimistes)


socialiste

socialiste m or f by sense (plural socialistes)

→ Persian: سوسیالیست (sosiyâlist)

→ Romanian: socialist

→ Turkish: sosyalist


moniste

moniste m or f by sense (plural monistes)


collabo

collabo m or f by sense (plural collabos)

(derogatory) quisling, traitor, collaborator


conformiste

conformiste m or f by sense (plural conformistes)


nomade

→ Danish: nomade

→ Dutch: nomade

→ English: nomad

→ Romanian: nomad


comparse

comparse m or f by sense (plural comparses)

→ Czech: komparz


culturiste

culturiste m or f by sense (plural culturistes)


enthousiaste

enthousiaste m or f by sense (plural enthousiastes)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐνθουσιαστής (enthousiastḗs).

bor+

ἐνθουσιαστής

(often ironic or derogatory) One who is inspired by the Divinity


hendek

Borrowed from Arabic عِنْدَك (ʕindak, literally “with you”).


diplomate

fr-noun

diplomate m or f by sense (plural diplomates)

→ Czech: diplomat

→ Danish: diplomat

→ German: Diplomat

→ Norwegian Bokmål: diplomat

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: diplomat

→ Swedish: diplomat

→ Persian: دیپلمات (diplomât)

→ Turkish: diplomat


extraterrestre

extraterrestre m or f by sense (plural extraterrestres)


haltérophile

haltérophile m or f by sense (plural haltérophiles)


chauve

Inherited from Latin calvus, from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥H-wó-s, from the root *kl̥H-.


caricaturiste

caricaturiste m or f by sense (plural caricaturistes)

desc

کاریکاتوریست

→ Persian: کاریکاتوریست (kârikâtorist)


journaliste

fr-noun

journaliste m or f by sense (plural journalistes)

→ German: Journalist

→ Persian: ژورنالیست (žurnâlist)

→ Romanian: jurnalist

desctree

→ Russian: журнали́ст (žurnalíst), журнали́стъ (žurnalíst) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
→ Armenian: ժուռնալիստ (žuṙnalist)
→ Azerbaijani: jurnalist
→ Crimean Tatar: jurnalist
→ Lithuanian: žurnalistas

an anchor, anchorperson, anchorman or anchorwoman


publiciste

fr-noun

publiciste m or f by sense (plural publicistes)


destinataire

destinataire m or f by sense (plural destinataires)

→ Italian: destinatario

Coordinate term: expéditeur


Britannique

Britannique m or f by sense (plural Britanniques)


Slovène

Slovène m or f by sense (plural Slovènes)


novice

Inherited from Middle French novice, from Old French novice, borrowed from Late Latin novīcius, novīcia (“one who has newly entered a monastery or a convent”), from Latin novīcius, novītius (“new, newly arrived”), from novus (“new”).


patriote

patriote m or f by sense (plural patriotes)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin patriōta (“fellow countryman”), itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriṓtēs, “of the same country”).


vandale

fr-noun

vandale m or f by sense (plural vandales)

→ Romanian: vandal

→ Turkish: vandal


porte-parole

porte-parole m or f by sense (plural porte-parole)

→ English: porte-parole

→ Serbo-Croatian: portparol, портпарол

From porter + parole. First attested in 1552 as Middle French porteparolle.

Cette restriction du passage à la frontière germano-autrichienne, principale porte d’entrée des réfugiés sur le territoire allemand et ultime étape du périple de la plupart des réfugiés fuyant la guerre ou la pauvreté, prend effet « immédiatement », selon une porte-parole du ministère allemand de l’Intérieur à l’Agence France Presse.

2015 October 31, “Migrants : Allemagne restreint les accès à sa frontière avec Autriche”, in Le Monde:

This restriction on crossing the German-Austrian border, the main gateway for refugees to German territory and the final stage in the exodus of most refugees fleeing war or poverty, will take effect "immediately", according to a spokesperson of the German Ministry of the Interior to Agence France Presse.


arriviste

arriviste m or f by sense (plural arrivistes)

→ Catalan: arribista

→ English: arriviste

→ Galician: arribista

→ Greek: αριβίστας (arivístas)

→ Italian: arrivista

→ Portuguese: arrivista

→ Spanish: arribista


liberticide

liberticide m or f by sense (plural liberticides)

liberticide (one who causes the destruction of liberty)


troon

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *trānts
Latin trāns
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Latin genus
Old French gendrebor.
Middle English gendre
English gender
English transgenderblend.
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōm
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm
Proto-Indo-European *-ō
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ
Proto-Germanic *gumô
Proto-West Germanic *gumō
Old English guma
Middle English gone?
English gooney
English goonblend.
English troonbor.
French troon
Unadapted borrowing from English troon.

etymon

Coordinate term: pooner

Mdrrr pourquoi les troons ils bandent toujours sur la violence alors qu’ils font strictement rien irl

Trop bien ça fait quoi d’être en coloc avec toutes les troons de Paris???

(anti-LGBTQ slur, Internet slang, derogatory, offensive) troon (transgender person)


candide

fr-noun

candide m or f by sense (plural candides)

Learned borrowing from Latin candidus (“white”).


fonctionnaire

fr-noun

fonctionnaire m or f by sense (plural fonctionnaires)

→ Portuguese: funcionário


zoophile

zoophile m or f by sense (plural zoophiles)


tartare

(relational) Tartar, Tatar (relating to the Tatar people or their culture)


tartare

tartare m or f by sense (plural tartares)

Tartar, Tatar (a member of the Tatar people)


tartare

tartare m (countable and uncountable, plural tartares)


analyste

analyste m or f by sense (plural analystes)


psychanalyste

psychanalyste m or f by sense (plural psychanalystes)

From psychanalyse + -iste on the model of analyste.


dactylo

dactylo m or f by sense (plural dactylos)


individualiste

individualiste m or f by sense (plural individualistes)


laïque

laïque m or f by sense (plural laïques, masculine laïc)

From Latin lāicus (“lay, layman, laic, laical”), from Ancient Greek λαϊκός (laïkós, “of the people”), from λαός (laós, “the people”). Doublet of lai (“lay, not belonging to the clergy”).


scientifique

fr-noun

scientifique m or f by sense (plural scientifiques)


cinéphile

cinéphile m or f by sense (plural cinéphiles)


pigiste

pigiste m or f by sense (plural pigistes)

Les gens me demandent souvent pourquoi les créatifs sont surpayés. Un pigiste qui met une semaine a rédiger un article pour Le Figaro va être payé cinquante fois moins qu’un rédac qui prend dix minutes pour pondre une affiche en free-lance.

2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 47:


athéiste

athéiste m or f by sense (plural athéistes)

Inherited from Middle French athéiste. By surface analysis, athée + -iste.


hydrophobe

hydrophobe m or f by sense (plural hydrophobes)


francophone

francophone m or f by sense (plural francophones)

Les francophones représentent environ 30 % de la population canadienne.

Francophones represent about 30% of the Canadian population.


Bulgare

Bulgare m or f by sense (plural Bulgares)

Bulgarian (native of Bulgaria, of either gender)


archéologue

archéologue m or f by sense (plural archéologues)

From post-classical Latin archaiologus or its etymon Byzantine Greek ἀρχαιολόγος (arkhaiológos), from Ancient Greek ἀρχαιο- (arkhaio-) + -λογος (-logos). By surface analysis, archéologie + -logue.

surf

archaeologist (someone who is skilled, professes or practices archaeology)


alcoolique

fr-noun

alcoolique m or f by sense (plural alcooliques)

alcoholic (a person addicted to alcohol)


peintre

peintre m or f by sense (plural peintres)

Inherited from Middle French paintre, from Old French peintre, paintre, from the nominative case of Vulgar Latin *pinctor, from Classical Latin pictor (“painter”). Cf. also the Old French forms peintor, paintor, poentor, from the Vulgar Latin accusative *pinctorem.


baptiste

baptiste m or f by sense (plural baptistes)

Inherited from Old French baptiste, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin baptista, from Ancient Greek βαπτιστής (baptistḗs).


hérétique

hérétique m or f by sense (plural hérétiques)

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin, Medieval Latin herēticus, from Ancient Greek αἱρετικός (hairetikós).


réaliste

réaliste m or f by sense (plural réalistes)

→ Danish: realist

→ Dutch: realist

→ Turkish: realist

From Latin reālis (whence réel) + -iste.


guitariste

guitariste m or f by sense (plural guitaristes)


accordéoniste

accordéoniste m or f by sense (plural accordéonistes)


orque

Borrowed from English orc. Doublet of ogre.


bassiste

bassiste m or f by sense (plural bassistes)

(music) bassist (one who plays the bass guitar)


touriste

touriste m or f by sense (plural touristes)

→ Persian: توریست (turist)

desctree

→ Italian: turista
→ Afar: tuurísti
→ Cimbrian: turist
→ Mòcheno: turist

→ Norman: touriste

→ Romanian: turist

→ Turkish: turist

Borrowed from English tourist. By surface analysis, tour + -iste.

tourist, holidaymaker, sightseer (someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business)

(derogatory) tourist (someone who takes part in something without much commitment)


acrobate

fr-noun

acrobate m or f by sense (plural acrobates)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀκροβάτης (akrobátēs).


chimiste

fr-noun

chimiste m or f by sense (plural chimistes)


fondamentaliste

fondamentaliste m or f by sense (plural fondamentalistes)

Near-synonym: intégriste


pornographe

pornographe m or f by sense (plural pornographes)

From the Ancient Greek πορνογράφος (pornográphos).

uder

J’suis l’pornographe / Du phonographe / Le polisson / De la chanson

1958, Georges Brassens (lyrics and music), “Le Pornographe”:


pianiste

fr-noun

pianiste m or f by sense (plural pianistes)


rebelle

rebelle m or f by sense (plural rebelles)

Inherited from Old French rebelle, borrowed from Latin rebellis.


sioniste

sioniste m or f by sense (plural sionistes)


banjoïste

banjoïste m or f by sense (plural banjoïstes)


psychologue

psychologue m or f by sense (plural psychologues)


pacifiste

pacifiste m or f by sense (plural pacifistes)

→ Catalan: pacifista

→ Italian: pacifista

→ Portuguese: pacifista

→ Spanish: pacifista


masochiste

masochiste m or f by sense (plural masochistes)


Biélorusse

Biélorusse m or f by sense (plural Biélorusses)

Belarusian (resident or native of Belarus)


romantique

romantique m or f by sense (plural romantiques)

Formed as an adjective from Old French romanz + -ique. The noun sense is from English romantic, in turn from the French adjective.


Maure

Inherited from Middle French More, respelled according to Latin Maurus.

Moor (A member of a certain mixed race of Arab and Berber people)


actionnaire

actionnaire m or f by sense (plural actionnaires)

→ Macedonian: акционе́р m (akcionér)

→ Ottoman Turkish: اوسیونر (aksiyoner)

Turkish: aksiyoner

→ Romanian: acționar m

desctree

→ Russian: акционе́р m (akcionér)
→ Georgian: აქციონერი (akcioneri)
→ Kazakh: акционер (aksioner)
→ Kyrgyz: акционер (aktsioner)
→ Turkmen: aksiýoner


PDG

Initialism of président directeur général m or présidente directrice générale f.

initialism

CEO (US, Canada) (chief executive officier) or MD (UK) (managing director) or president


sans-papiers

fr-noun

sans-papiers m or f by sense (plural sans-papiers)

undocumented immigrant
undocumented immigrant

undocumented immigrant, illegal immigrant (immigrant without the proper work permits or identification)


cannibale

cannibale m or f by sense (plural cannibales)


topographe

topographe m or f by sense (plural topographes)


misogyne

misogyne m or f by sense (plural misogynes)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μισογύνης (misogúnēs).

lbor

Coordinate term: misandre


misérable

a Belgian French pastry of vanilla butter-cream and tender almond biscuit layers


fabricant

fr-noun

fabricant m or f by sense (plural fabricants)


terroriste

terroriste m or f by sense (plural terroristes)

→ Hebrew: טרוריסט (teroríst)

→ Persian: تروریست (terorist)

→ Russian: террори́ст (terroríst)

→ Turkish: terörist


BFF

C’est donc en mini mini-short rouge […] que la meilleure amie de Jay-Z a fait son entrée dans le carré VIP du Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy, où elle a retrouvé sa BFF Beyoncé venue soutenir son mari, l’ex-Destiny’s Child Kelly Rowland, et le réalisateur engagé Spike Lee.

So it was in a pair of tiny red hotpants that Jay-Z's best friend made her entrance to the VIP area of Paris-Bercy's Palais Omnisports, where she met up with her BFF Beyoncé come to support her husband, ex-Destiny's Child Kelly Rowland, and engaged director Spike Lee.


soliste

soliste m or f by sense (plural solistes)

→ Romanian: solist

→ Russian: соли́ст (solíst) (see there for further descendants)

→ Turkish: solist


astronaute

astronaute m or f by sense (plural astronautes)

astronaut (a member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft, or someone trained for that purpose)


casse-pied

casse-pied m or f by sense (plural casse-pieds)


fiscaliste

fiscaliste m or f by sense (plural fiscalistes)

an economist that believes fiscal policy is of paramount importance in economic regulation


cosmonaute

cosmonaute m or f by sense (plural cosmonautes)

From Russian космона́вт (kosmonávt), cosmo- + -naute.


autocrate

autocrate m or f by sense (plural autocrates)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὐτοκρατής (autokratḗs, “sovereign”), from αὐτο- (auto-, “self”) (combinatory form of αὐτός (autós)) + κρατία (kratía, “rule”) (from κράτος (krátos, “strength, power”)).


Thibault

From Early Medieval Latin Theobaldus, a borrowing from Old English Þēodbald, from Proto-West Germanic *Þeudubalþ, from Proto-Germanic *Þeudōbalþaz. Several variants exist, such as Teabo, Tebeau, Tebo, Teboe, Tebow, Thebeau, Thibaut, Thibeau, Thibeault, Thibeaux, Thibo.

a male given name, equivalent to English Theobald


fanatique

→ German: fanatisch

→ Turkish: fanatik


fanatique

fr-noun

fanatique m or f by sense (plural fanatiques)

fanatic (one who is zealously enthusiastic)

Near-synonym: intégriste


réceptionniste

réceptionniste m or f by sense (plural réceptionnistes)


linguiste

linguiste m or f by sense (plural linguistes)

→ Turkish: lengüist


Malgache

Malgache m or f by sense (plural Malgaches)


trompettiste

trompettiste m or f by sense (plural trompettistes)


missionnaire

missionnaire m or f by sense (plural missionnaires)


chronique

Borrowed from Latin chronicus, from Ancient Greek χρονικός (khronikós, “of time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).

der

Elle souffre d’une maladie chronique

chronic (that which continues over an extended period of time)


chronique

fr-noun

chronique m or f by sense (plural chroniques)


démagogue

démagogue m or f by sense (plural démagogues)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δημαγωγός (dēmagōgós, “popular leader, mob leader”).


modiste

fr-noun

modiste m or f by sense (plural modistes)


biologiste

biologiste m or f by sense (plural biologistes)

On ne compte plus les ingénieurs, techniciens supérieurs, physiciens et biologistes marocains qui travaillent dans les plus grands instituts de recherche dans le monde comme la NASA, le CNRS ou autres multinationales.

2004 January 16, “Éditorial : Un cautère sur une jambe de bois”, in Aujourd'hui:


bouddhiste

bouddhiste m or f by sense (plural bouddhistes)


vétérinaire

vétérinaire m or f by sense (plural vétérinaires)

Learned borrowing from Latin veterīnārius.

lbor

veterinarian, veterinary surgeon, vet (short form for the two previous terms)


catholique

fr-noun

catholique m or f by sense (plural catholiques)

→ Ottoman Turkish: قتولیك (Katolik)

Turkish: Katolik

→ Persian: کاتولیک (katolik)

From Latin catholicus, from Ancient Greek καθολικός (katholikós).


communiste

communiste m or f by sense (plural communistes)

→ English: communist

→ Turkish: komünist

→ Persian: کمونیست (komunist)

From commun (“common, communal”) + -iste (“-ist”).


philatéliste

fr-noun

philatéliste m or f by sense (plural philatélistes)

desc

φιλοτελιστής

→ Greek: φιλοτελιστής (filotelistís) (learned)

→ Turkish: filatelist


staliniste

fr-noun

staliniste m or f by sense (plural stalinistes)

Stalinist (a person who accepts the philosophy of Stalinism)


animaliste

animaliste m or f by sense (plural animalistes)


arabophone

arabophone m or f by sense (plural arabophones)


suédophone

suédophone m or f by sense (plural suédophones)


hispanophone

hispanophone m or f by sense (plural hispanophones)


lusophone

lusophone m or f by sense (plural lusophones)

Borrowed from Portuguese lusófono. By surface analysis, luso- + -phone.


chiite

Coordinate term: sunnite


centenaire

centenaire m or f by sense (plural centenaires)

Borrowed from Latin centenārius. Doublet of quintal.

centenarian (someone aged 100 years or more)


supercentenaire

supercentenaire m or f by sense (plural supercentenaires)


démographe

démographe m or f by sense (plural démographes)


automobiliste

automobiliste m or f by sense (plural automobilistes)

desc

автомобили́ст

→ Bulgarian: автомобили́ст (avtomobilíst)

→ Dutch: automobilist

→ English: automobilist

→ Portuguese: automobilista

→ Romanian: automobilist

→ Serbo-Croatian: automobilist


humaniste

fr-noun

humaniste m or f by sense (plural humanistes)


perchiste

perchiste m or f by sense (plural perchistes)


idolâtre

idolâtre m or f by sense (plural idolâtres)

Learned borrowing from Latin īdōlolatrēs (with haplology), itself borrowed from Ancient Greek εἰδωλολάτρης (eidōlolátrēs).

der

εἰδωλολάτρης


Flo

a diminutive of the female given name Florence

a diminutive of the male given name Florent


gymnaste

fr-noun

gymnaste m or f by sense (plural gymnastes)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek γυμναστής (gumnastḗs, “trainer of athletes”).


otage

Inherited from Old French hostage. By surface analysis, hôte + -age.

Prendre (quelqu’un) en otage.


signataire

fr-noun

signataire m or f by sense (plural signataires)

Ce site Internet retranscrit la liste des signataires de l’association «pour une paix juste au Proche-Orient», en accolant une étoile de David à ceux d’entre eux qui sont juifs.

2002 August 26, “Un site juif extrémiste”, in Aujourd'hui:

This Internet site transcribed the list of signatories of the association "for a just peace in the Middle East", by affixing a Star of David to those of them who are Jews.

signer; signatory; signature-giver (someone who signs something)


finaliste

finaliste m or f by sense (plural finalistes)

→ Romanian: finalist

→ Persian: فینالیست (finâlist)

→ Turkish: finalist


maoïste

maoïste m or f by sense (plural maoïstes)


spationaute

spationaute m or f by sense (plural spationautes)


quinquagénaire

quinquagénaire m or f by sense (plural quinquagénaires)

Qui voudrait former un quasi-quinquagénaire?

2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 11:


demi-finaliste

demi-finaliste m or f by sense (plural demi-finalistes)


pur laine

pur laine m or f by sense (plural pur laine)


pure laine

pure laine m or f by sense (plural pure laine or pures laines)

pure laine (plural)
pures laines (plural)


cycliste

cycliste m or f by sense (plural cyclistes)


pédophile

pédophile m or f by sense (plural pédophiles)


plénipotentiaire

plénipotentiaire m or f by sense (plural plénipotentiaires)

From Latin plēnus + potentia + suffix -aire.

plenipotentiary (a person invested with supreme authority)


mandoliniste

mandoliniste m or f by sense (plural mandolinistes)


colonialiste

colonialiste m or f by sense (plural colonialistes)


pluraliste

pluraliste m or f by sense (plural pluralistes)


Carrière

Translingual: Carrière


autonomiste

autonomiste m or f by sense (plural autonomistes)


alpiniste

alpiniste m or f by sense (plural alpinistes)


argonaute

argonaute m or f by sense (plural argonautes)

From Latin Argonauta from Ancient Greek Ἀργοναύτης (Argonaútēs) from Ἀργώ (Argṓ, “the ship Argo”) + ναύτης (naútēs, “sailor”).


adepte

English: adept

Borrowed from Latin adeptus, the past participle of adipīscor (“to attain”).


autochtone

autochtone m or f by sense (plural autochtones)

→ Romanian: autocton

Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὐτόχθων (autókhthōn).


psychiatre

fr-noun

psychiatre m or f by sense (plural psychiatres)

First attested in 1802. psych- + -iatre.


régicide

régicide m or f by sense (plural régicides)


propriétaire

propriétaire m or f by sense (plural propriétaires)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin proprietārius.

lbor

le propriétaire du véhicule

Coordinate term: locataire

un propriétaire terrien

faire le tour du propriétaire

to look around a property, to visit a place such as an apartment, to be shown around a place (literally, “to make the owner's tour”)

owner (one who owns something)
(especially) property owner, landlord

owner (one who owns something)
property owner, landlord


propriétaire

un logiciel propriétaire


existentialiste

fr-noun

existentialiste m or f by sense (plural existentialistes)

→ German: Existentialist

→ Romanian: existențialist

→ Turkish: egzistansiyalist


cynique

Learned borrowing from Latin cynicus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κυνικός (kunikós).


cynique

cynique m or f by sense (plural cyniques)

cynic (person who believes that all people are motivated by selfishness)

cynic (person who practices the cynic philosophy)


optimiste

optimiste m or f by sense (plural optimistes)


astronome

astronome m or f by sense (plural astronomes)


abélite

abélite m or f by sense (plural abélites)

Abelian (member of a sect living like Abel)


cobaye

(figuratively) guinea pig (a living experimental subject)


clarinettiste

clarinettiste m or f by sense (plural clarinettistes)


contumace

contumace m or f by sense (plural contumaces)

Borrowed from Latin contumāx (“stubborn, obstinate”).


partenaire

fr-noun

partenaire m or f by sense (plural partenaires)

desctree

→ Russian: партнёр (partnjór)
→ Georgian: პარტნიორი (ṗarṭniori)


architecte

fr-noun

architecte m or f by sense (plural architectes)

Haitian Creole: achitekt

Inherited from Middle French architecte, from Latin architectus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn, “master builder”), from ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “chief”) + τέκτων (téktōn, “builder”).


moraliste

fr-noun

moraliste m or f by sense (plural moralistes)

→ Russian: морали́ст (moralíst) (see there for further descendants)


maronite

maronite m or f by sense (plural maronites)


puriste

puriste m or f by sense (plural puristes)


Tchétchène

Tchétchène m or f by sense (plural Tchétchènes)

Chechen (resident or native of Chechnya)


stagiaire

stagiaire m or f by sense (plural stagiaires)

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin stagiārius, from stagium + -ārius. By surface analysis, stage + -aire.


humanitaire

fr-noun

humanitaire m or f by sense (plural humanitaires)


démocrate

démocrate m or f by sense (plural démocrates)

→ German: Demokrat


spécialiste

spécialiste m or f by sense (plural spécialistes)

→ English: specialist

→ German: Spezialist


indigène

indigène m or f by sense (plural indigènes)

→ English: indigene


Madrilène

Madrilène m or f by sense (plural Madrilènes)


bigame

From Latin bigamus. Morphologically bi- (“two”) + -game (“marriage”).


Yougoslave

Yougoslave m or f by sense (plural Yougoslaves)

Yugoslav, Yugoslavian (resident or native of Yugoslavia)


Soviétique

Soviétique m or f by sense (plural Soviétiques)


économiste

économiste m or f by sense (plural économistes)


calviniste

calviniste m or f by sense (plural calvinistes)


solipsiste

solipsiste m or f by sense (plural solipsistes)


accro

Clipping of accroché, past participle of accrocher.


antifasciste

antifasciste m or f by sense (plural antifascistes)


animiste

animiste m or f by sense (plural animistes)


sunnite

sunnite m or f by sense (plural sunnites)

Spanish: sunita, sunnita


virtuose

virtuose m or f by sense (plural virtuoses)

desctree

→ Russian: виртуоз (virtuoz)
→ Georgian: ვირტუოზი (virṭuozi)

Borrowed from Italian virtuoso. Doublet of vertueux.


facho

(slang, derogatory) fash (a fascist or member of the far-right)


sadiste

fr-noun

sadiste m or f by sense (plural sadistes)


iconoclaste

iconoclaste m or f by sense (plural iconoclastes)

Learned borrowing from Byzantine Greek εἰκονοκλάστης (eikonoklástēs).

lbor

εἰκονοκλάστης

Coordinate term: iconophile


lèche-cul

fr-noun

lèche-cul m or f by sense (plural lèche-cul or lèche-culs)

From lécher (“to lick”) + cul (“arse, hole”). Said because the ass is considered vulgar and being willing to kiss another's is considered a sign of submission and patronage.

(vulgar) ass-licker (US), arse-licker (UK)


adultère

adultère m or f by sense (plural adultères)

Borrowed from Latin adulter (“adulterous; adulterer”).

bor+

Les lois de Saxe condamnaient tout adultère à avoir la tête tranchée.

1739, Frédéric II, Voltaire, L'anti-Machiavel:

adulterer, adulteress (an adulterous woman)


copiste

fr-noun

copiste m or f by sense (plural copistes)

un moine copiste


centriste

centriste m or f by sense (plural centristes)

→ English: centrist


cleptomane

cleptomane m or f by sense (plural cleptomanes)

From Ancient Greek κλέπτω (kléptō) + -mane.


récidiviste

récidiviste m or f by sense (plural récidivistes)


anarchiste

anarchiste m or f by sense (plural anarchistes)

→ Ottoman Turkish: آنارشیست (anarşist)

Turkish: anarşist

→ Russian: анархи́ст (anarxíst)

→ Bulgarian: анархи́ст (anarhíst)

Eh bien ! vous êtes démocrate ? — Non. — Quoi ! vous seriez monarchique ? — Non. — Constitutionnel ? — Dieu m’en garde. — Vous êtes donc aristocrate ? — Point du tout. — Vous voulez un gouvernement mixte ? — Encore moins. — Qu’êtes-vous donc ? — Je suis anarchiste.

1849 [1840], Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, “Caractères de la communauté et de la propriété”, in Qu’est-ce que la propriété?, page 237; translated as “Characteristics of Communism and of Property.”, in Benjamin Tucker, transl., What Is Property?, 1876, page 272:

“Well! you are a democrat?” — “No.” — “What! you would have a monarchy.” — “No.” — “A constitutionalist?” — “God forbid!” — “You are then an aristocrat?” — “Not at all.” — “You want a mixed government?” — “Still less.” — “What are you, then?” — “I am an anarchist.”


oculiste

oculiste m or f by sense (plural oculistes)


philanthrope

philanthrope m or f by sense (plural philanthropes)

From Ancient Greek φιλάνθρωπος (philánthrōpos).


Étrusque

fr-noun

Étrusque m or f by sense (plural Étrusques)


formaliste

formaliste m or f by sense (plural formalistes)

From Latin fōrmālis (whence French formel) + -iste.


belliciste

belliciste m or f by sense (plural bellicistes)

From Latin bellum (“war”), compare belligérant.


exorciste

exorciste m or f by sense (plural exorcistes)

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin exorcista, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐξορκιστής (exorkistḗs).


biographe

fr-noun

biographe m or f by sense (plural biographes)


garagiste

garagiste m or f by sense (plural garagistes)


enseigne

enseigne m or f by sense (plural enseignes)

Inherited from Latin īnsignia, a neuter plural reinterpreted as a feminine singular. Doublet of insigne.


Cypriote

Cypriote m or f by sense (plural Cypriotes)


psy

(colloquial) Clipping of psychologique (“psychological”).

(colloquial) Clipping of psychique (“psychic”).

(colloquial) Clipping of psychosomatique (“psychosomatic”).


psy

(colloquial) Clipping of psychiatre (“psychiatrist”); shrink

(colloquial) Clipping of psychologue (“psychologist”).


célibataire

célibataire m or f by sense (plural célibataires)

Piedmontese: selibatari

From célibat (“celibacy”) + -aire (“-ary”). Compare Piedmontese selibatari, Occitan celibatari and Catalan celibatari.

un célibataire endurci


hybride

hybride m or f by sense (plural hybrides)


Kanak

Kanak m or f by sense (plural Kanaks, feminine Kanake)


quétaine

quétaine m or f by sense (plural quétaines)

(Quebec, derogatory) someone unrefined or ignorant


bloquiste

bloquiste m or f by sense (plural bloquistes)

(Canadian politics) a member of the Bloc Québécois, a Bloquiste


souveraintiste

souveraintiste m or f by sense (plural souveraintistes)

Alternative spelling of souverainiste (“sovereignist”)


souverainiste

souverainiste m or f by sense (plural souverainistes)


séparatiste

séparatiste m or f by sense (plural séparatistes)


indépendantiste

(politics, relational) independence; separatist


indépendantiste

indépendantiste m or f by sense (plural indépendantistes)


plagiaire

plagiaire m or f by sense (plural plagiaires)


récipiendaire

récipiendaire m or f by sense (plural récipiendaires)

recipient, receiver (someone who receives, e.g. an award)


péquiste

péquiste m or f by sense (plural péquistes)

(Canadian politics) a member or supporter of the Parti Québécois


adéquiste

adéquiste m or f by sense (plural adéquistes)

Action démocratique du Québec
Action démocratique du Québec

(Canadian politics) a member of Action démocratique du Québec


énarque

énarque m or f by sense (plural énarques)

→ English: énarque

énarque (graduate of the École nationale d'administration)


libraire

libraire m or f by sense (plural libraires)

bookseller (person engaged in the business of selling books)


archiviste

archiviste m or f by sense (plural archivistes)


pædagogue

pædagogue m or f by sense (plural pædagogues)


civiliste

civiliste m or f by sense (plural civilistes)


compatriote

compatriote m or f by sense (plural compatriotes)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin compatriota, itself likely a calque of Ancient Greek συμπατριώτης (sumpatriṓtēs). By surface analysis, com- + patriote.

der

συμπατριώτης


concertiste

fr-noun

concertiste m or f by sense (plural concertistes)

(music) concert performer (especially a soloist)


congressiste

congressiste m or f by sense (plural congressistes)


grossiste

grossiste m or f by sense (plural grossistes)


islamiste

islamiste m or f by sense (plural islamistes)


latiniste

latiniste m or f by sense (plural latinistes)

A scholar of Latin language and literature; a Latinist.


libelliste

libelliste m or f by sense (plural libellistes)


urbaniste

urbaniste m or f by sense (plural urbanistes)


caraïbe

caraïbe m or f by sense (plural caraïbes)

Caribbean (resident or native of the Caribbean)


onaniste

onaniste m or f by sense (plural onanistes)


exégète

exégète m or f by sense (plural exégètes)


vestiaire

vestiaire m or f by sense (plural vestiaires)

Turkish: vestiyer


intimiste

intimiste m or f by sense (plural intimistes)


nutritionniste

nutritionniste m or f by sense (plural nutritionnistes)

nutritionist (an expert or specialist in nutrition)


monogame

monogame m or f by sense (plural monogames)


révolutionnaire

révolutionnaire m or f by sense (plural révolutionnaires)

desc

революционе́р

→ Russian: революционе́р (revoljucionér)

un révolutionnaire démographique


occultiste

fr-noun

occultiste m or f by sense (plural occultistes)


collagiste

collagiste m or f by sense (plural collagistes)


naturiste

naturiste m or f by sense (plural naturistes)


coupable

coupable m or f by sense (plural coupables)

Inherited from Old French coupable, from Ecclesiastical Latin culpābilis (“culpable”), derived from culpa.


tsigane

fr-noun

tsigane m or f by sense (plural tsiganes)


controversiste

controversiste m or f by sense (plural controversistes)

controversialist (one who regularly engages in public controversies)


spiritualiste

spiritualiste m or f by sense (plural spiritualistes)


naturaliste

naturaliste m or f by sense (plural naturalistes)


abandonnataire

abandonnataire m or f by sense (plural abandonnataires)

(law) a natural or moral person who benefits from another party giving up something


romaniste

romaniste m or f by sense (plural romanistes)


journaliste reporter d'images

journaliste reporter d’images m or f by sense (plural journalistes reporters d’images)

journaliste reporter d’ images (by-personal-gender canonical feminine masculine)
journalistes reporters d’images (plural)


sudiste

sudiste m or f by sense (plural sudistes)

Southerner (resident or native of the south)


secouriste

secouriste m or f by sense (plural secouristes)


copilote

copilote m or f by sense (plural copilotes)


pittoresque

pittoresque m or f by sense (plural pittoresques)

someone or something that is picturesque


Sagittaire

Sagittaire m or f by sense (plural Sagittaires)

Sagittarius (someone with a Sagittarius star sign)


Capricorne

Capricorne m or f by sense (plural Capricornes)

Capricorn (someone born with a Capricorn star sign)


plagiste

plagiste m or f by sense (plural plagistes)

beachgoer (someone who goes to the beach)


jihadiste

jihadiste m or f by sense (plural jihadistes)


Abkhaze

Abkhaze m or f by sense (plural Abkhazes)

resident or native of Abkhazia regardless of ethnicity


amblyope

amblyope m or f by sense (plural amblyopes)


anticapitaliste

anticapitaliste m or f by sense (plural anticapitalistes)


cinéaste

cinéaste m or f by sense (plural cinéastes)

→ Catalan: cineasta

→ English: cineast

→ Galician: cineasta

→ German: Cineast

→ Italian: cineasta

→ Portuguese: cineasta

→ Spanish: cineasta

→ Swedish: cineast

From ciné- + -aste, coined by Louis Delluc circa 1920.


ventriloque

ventriloque m or f by sense (plural ventriloques)


antisioniste

antisioniste m or f by sense (plural antisionistes)


antiquaire

antiquaire m or f by sense (plural antiquaires)


possibiliste

possibiliste m or f by sense (plural possibilistes)


citadin

citadin m or f by sense (plural citadins, feminine citadine)

→ Spanish: citadino

Borrowed from Italian cittadino. Doublet of citoyen.

Coordinate term: campagnard

(sometimes derogatory) city dweller, urbanite, townsman; city slicker


cubiste

cubiste m or f by sense (plural cubistes)


spirite

spirite m or f by sense (plural spirites)


voyagiste

voyagiste m or f by sense (plural voyagistes)


proxénète

proxénète m or f by sense (plural proxénètes)

Borrowed from Latin proxenēta, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek προξενητής (proxenētḗs).


borgne

Au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king


àquoiboniste

àquoiboniste m or f by sense (plural àquoibonistes)

a subscriber to àquoibonisme; a philosophical defeatist


sexologue

sexologue m or f by sense (plural sexologues)


adversaire

adversaire m or f by sense (plural adversaires)

Borrowed from Latin adversārius (“antagonist”).

bor+

adversary, opponent, opposition, antagonist


twitto

(colloquial) tweeter (person who posts messages to Twitter)


monopoliste

fr-noun

monopoliste m or f by sense (plural monopolistes)


nudiste

nudiste m or f by sense (plural nudistes)


futuriste

futuriste m or f by sense (plural futuristes)


cégétiste

cégétiste m or f by sense (plural cégétistes)


créole

An adaptation of the Castilian Spanish criollo (“homey, local yokel”), from Portuguese crioulo, diminutive of cria (“person raised in one’s house, servant”), from Portuguese criar (“to rear, to bring up”), from Latin creō (“to create”)


cathare

fr-noun

cathare m or f by sense (plural cathares)

From Medieval Latin Cathari, from Ancient Greek καθαρός (katharós, “pure”).

uder

D’ici furent dirigés ces inquisiteurs qui allèrent brûler Vaudois, cathares, fraticelles, béguins, sorciers, envoûteurs, magiciens, flagellants, ou juifs convertis, mais soupçonnés de sortilèges.

1931, Ludovic Naudeau, La France se regarde : Le Problème de la natalité, Librairie Hachette, Paris:


icône

Borrowed from Russian икона (ikona, “(Eastern Orthodox) religious image”) [1859]; in the GUI sense from English icon, ultimately from Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “figure, image, etc.”).

der

Il est un icône du ski.

(figurative) icon (exemplar person or thing)


raciste

fr-noun

raciste m or f by sense (plural racistes)

Il est presque normal d’être raciste, mais il est criminel de le demeurer.

1996, Pierre Bourgault, La Culture. Écrits polémiques., volume 2, Lanctôt Éditeur, page 267:

It is quite normal to be racist, but it is criminal to remain one.


rigoriste

rigoriste m or f by sense (plural rigoristes)


bonapartiste

bonapartiste m or f by sense (plural bonapartistes)


polyglotte

polyglotte m or f by sense (plural polyglottes)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολύγλωττος (polúglōttos).


Ouzbek

fr-noun

Ouzbek m or f by sense (plural Ouzbeks, feminine Ouzbèke)


égyptologue

égyptologue m or f by sense (plural égyptologues)


anesthésiste

anesthésiste m or f by sense (plural anesthésistes)

Turkish: anestezist


tromboniste

tromboniste m or f by sense (plural trombonistes)

trombonist (person who plays the trombone)


écologue

écologue m or f by sense (plural écologues)

→ Turkish: ekolog

From écologie, to distinguish from écologiste (“environmentalist”).


germaniste

germaniste m or f by sense (plural germanistes)


chorégraphe

chorégraphe m or f by sense (plural chorégraphes)

On the model of chorégraphie, with the suffix -graphe.


essayiste

essayiste m or f by sense (plural essayistes)


intermédiaire

intermédiaire m or f by sense (plural intermédiaires)


publicitaire

publicitaire m or f by sense (plural publicitaires)


bénéficiaire

bénéficiaire m or f by sense (plural bénéficiaires)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin beneficiārius. By surface analysis, bénéfice + -aire.


créationniste

fr-noun

créationniste m or f by sense (plural créationnistes)


universitaire

universitaire m or f by sense (plural universitaires)


académique

académique m or f by sense (plural académiques)

Borrowed from Latin acadēmicus, from Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós).


calligraphe

calligraphe m or f by sense (plural calligraphes)

calligrapher (one who practices calligraphy)


ancêtre

ancêtre m or f by sense (plural ancêtres)

Inherited from Old French ancestre, ancessor, from nominative case of Latin antecessor. Doublet of antécesseur.


insulaire

insulaire m or f by sense (plural insulaires)

islander (person who lives on an island)


juriste

juriste m or f by sense (plural juristes)


titulaire

2020 August 17, Cyril Morin, 'La compo probable du PSG : Les "Quatre Fantastiques" titulaires, doute sur Paredes-Herrera', Eurosport.fr

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

Kylian Mbappé fait son retour dans le onze titulaire, tout comme Angel Di Maria permettant au PSG d’aligner un quatuor terrible avec Mauro Icardi et Neymar.

(sports) in the starting team, as opposed to a substitute


titulaire

titulaire m or f by sense (plural titulaires)

a holder (of an account, a name, a title, etc.)


esthète

esthète m or f by sense (plural esthètes)

→ Greek: εστέτ (estét)

→ Turkish: estet

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek αἰσθητής (aisthētḗs).

lbor

aesthete (someone who cultivates an unusually high sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature)


gestionnaire

fr-noun

gestionnaire m or f by sense (plural gestionnaires)


légitime

From Old French legit(t)ime (13th c.), borrowed from Latin lēgitimus.


légitime

légitime m or f by sense (plural légitimes)

→ Dutch: legitiem

(dated, slang) one's regular sexual or romantic partner (as opposed to a partner with which one is having an affair)


caniche

caniche m or f by sense (plural caniches)

→ Basque: kanixe

→ Portuguese: caniche

→ Romanian: caniș

→ Spanish: caniche

→ Turkish: kaniş


comptable

comptable m or f by sense (plural comptables)

→ Italian: contabile


humoriste

humoriste m or f by sense (plural humoristes)


détective

détective m or f by sense (plural détectives)

detective (police officer who looks for evidence)


entomologiste

entomologiste m or f by sense (plural entomologistes)


contribuable

contribuable m or f by sense (plural contribuables)


panenthéiste

panenthéiste m or f by sense (plural panenthéistes)

panentheist (person who believes in panentheism)


trotskiste

trotskiste m or f by sense (plural trotskistes)

Trotskyite (an advocate of the communist doctrines of Leon Trotsky)


parapentiste

parapentiste m or f by sense (plural parapentistes)


bactériologiste

bactériologiste m or f by sense (plural bactériologistes)


intouchable

intouchable m or f by sense (plural intouchables)


radiothérapeute

radiothérapeute m or f by sense (plural radiothérapeutes)

radiotherapist (specialist of radiotherapy)


révisionniste

(relational) of revisionism; revisionist


révisionniste

révisionniste m or f by sense (plural révisionnistes)

→ Turkish: revizyonist

(Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, often derogatory) a revisionist (someone who makes an evolutionary form of Marxism, abandoning some of its principles)


cleptocrate

cleptocrate m or f by sense (plural cleptocrates)


locataire

locataire m or f by sense (plural locataires)

Ultimately from Latin locus (“place”) + -aire, literally “locatee”, a person to which a place is rented. Compare Italian locatario.


propagandiste

fr-noun

propagandiste m or f by sense (plural propagandistes)


violiste

violiste m or f by sense (plural violistes)


interprète

interprète m or f by sense (plural interprètes)

(translation studies) interpreter (as opposed to translator)

performer (for example, an actor, musician, singer)


taxidermiste

taxidermiste m or f by sense (plural taxidermistes)


buraliste

buraliste m or f by sense (plural buralistes)


hétéro

Est-ce que Damien est un hétéro ?

(colloquial) a straight (heterosexual) person


saxophoniste

saxophoniste m or f by sense (plural saxophonistes)

saxophonist (person who plays the saxophone)


violoncelliste

violoncelliste m or f by sense (plural violoncellistes)


yéyé

Borrowed from English yeah-yeah. Compare to go-go, of contemporary coinage, and Brazilian Portuguese iê-iê-iê.

Fondateur du rock français, Johnny Hallyday, comme Richard Anthony, va rapidement abandonner le rock pur et dur et prendre la tête d’un mouvement plus sucré, plus acceptable par le grand public et les médias : le yéyé. Mouvement sociologique et style musical, le yéyé bouleverse le paysage de la chanson dans la première moitié des années 60.

2013, Gilles Schlesser, Le cabaret «Rive Gauche», l'Archipel, →ISBN:

(music) yé-yé (music genre of the early 1960s)


abolitionniste

abolitionniste m or f by sense (plural abolitionnistes)


pneumologue

pneumologue m or f by sense (plural pneumologues)


topologue

topologue m or f by sense (plural topologues)


sataniste

sataniste m or f by sense (plural satanistes)


canoniste

canoniste m or f by sense (plural canonistes)


zoologue

zoologue m or f by sense (plural zoologues)

→ Romanian: zoolog

→ Turkish: zoolog


zoologiste

zoologiste m or f by sense (plural zoologistes)


lexicographe

lexicographe m or f by sense (plural lexicographes)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λεξικογράφος (lexikográphos); cognate with English lexicographer, Dutch lexicograaf, German Lexikograf.

bor+

λεξικογράφος


Aborigène

fr-noun

Aborigène m or f by sense (plural Aborigènes)


spiritiste

spiritiste m or f by sense (plural spiritistes)


étatiste

étatiste m or f by sense (plural étatistes)

→ Finnish: etatisti


catho

Loin de toi l’idée de dénier aux cathos de droite le droit d’être de droite. Les cathos sont comme tout le monde : ils votent pour leurs idées, qu’elles soient de droite ou de gauche (ou du centre). Ce qui te déprime, ce qu’ils soient majoritairement, pour ainsi dire naturellement, de droite.

2015, Alain Rémond, Que sont tes rêves devenus?, Le Seuil, →ISBN:

Far be it from you to deny right-wing Catholics the right to be right-wing. Catholics are like everyone else: they vote according to their opinions, be they right-wing or left-wing (or centrist). What depresses you is that they are predominantly – naturally, so to speak – right-wing.

(informal) Catholic, often one who is overly pontifical

(informal) abbreviation for Institut Catholique de Paris


visagiste

visagiste m or f by sense (plural visagistes)

→ English: visagiste

→ German: Visagist


télépathe

télépathe m or f by sense (plural télépathes)


Béarnais

Béarnais m or f by sense (plural Béarnais)

an inhabitant or descendant of the population of the Béarn region in the French Pyrenees


aboulique

aboulique m or f by sense (plural abouliques)


kayakiste

kayakiste m or f by sense (plural kayakistes)


ripou

ripou m or f by sense (plural ripous or ripoux)

Au lancement de l’affaire, pour tenter de confirmer ses confidences explosives et confondre les "ripoux" de la Bac Nord, l’inspection génerale de la police nationale (IGPN) avait employé les grands moyens.

2021 April 12, Laurent D'Ancona, “Bac Nord Flics (et) ou voyous ?”, in La Provence, →ISSN, page 2:


démissionnaire

démissionnaire m or f by sense (plural démissionnaires)


galeriste

galeriste m or f by sense (plural galeristes)


fataliste

fataliste m or f by sense (plural fatalistes)


botaniste

botaniste m or f by sense (plural botanistes)


sarkozyste

sarkozyste m or f by sense (plural sarkozystes)

From Nicolas Sarkozy (1955–), President of France.

Sarkozyst (follower or partisan of Nicolas Sarkozy)


sarkoziste

sarkoziste m or f by sense (plural sarkozistes)


mécène

From Mécène (“Maecenas”), a Roman advisor (70 BCE – 8 BCE) and important patron for the Augustan poets, from Latin Maecenas.


pugiliste

pugiliste m or f by sense (plural pugilistes)

Probably borrowed from English pugilist, but it may also be seen as a parallel development of pugilism. Ultimately from Latin pugil.


ovniologue

ovniologue m or f by sense (plural ovniologues)


sidérurgiste

sidérurgiste m or f by sense (plural sidérurgistes)


cul-de-jatte

cul-de-jatte m or f by sense (plural culs-de-jatte)

legless cripple, someone with both legs amputated


Bosniaque

Bosniaque m or f by sense (plural Bosniaques)


Qatariote

Qatariote m or f by sense (plural Qatariotes)


pédagogue

pédagogue m or f by sense (plural pédagogues)

Inherited from Middle French pedagoge, pedagogue, borrowed from Latin paedagōgus, from Ancient Greek παιδᾰγωγός (paidăgōgós).


anatomiste

anatomiste m or f by sense (plural anatomistes)


cardiologue

cardiologue m or f by sense (plural cardiologues)

→ Romanian: cardiolog

→ Turkish: kardiyolog


anglomane

anglomane m or f by sense (plural anglomanes)


sociologue

sociologue m or f by sense (plural sociologues)

→ Turkish: sosyolog


véto

(informal) post-1990 spelling of veto (“vet (veterinarian, veterinary surgeon)”)


typographe

typographe m or f by sense (plural typographes)


encyclopédiste

encyclopédiste m or f by sense (plural encyclopédistes)


wikipédiste

wikipédiste m or f by sense (plural wikipédistes)


môme

19th century, probably imitative of a child's first attempts at speech.

onomatopoeic

imitative

Ils sont partis sans crier gare / Avec leurs mômes et leurs guitares / Nos frères gitans de Saint-Ouen

1961, “Nous Deux”, in Récital À L'Alhambra, performed by Léo Ferré:

They left without warning / With their girls and their guitars / Our gypsy brothers from Saint-Ouen


Aztèque

fr-noun

Aztèque m or f by sense (plural Aztèques)


travailliste

travailliste m or f by sense (plural travaillistes)


marionnettiste

marionnettiste m or f by sense (plural marionnettistes)


anthropologue

anthropologue m or f by sense (plural anthropologues)


sémite

From Late Latin Sēm, from Ancient Greek Σήμ (Sḗm), from Biblical Hebrew שם (šēm, “name”), from Proto-Semitic *šim-.


écologiste

écologiste m or f by sense (plural écologistes)

→ Turkish: ekolojist

From écologie + -iste, probably modeled on English ecologist.


échangiste

échangiste m or f by sense (plural échangistes)


sexiste

sexiste m or f by sense (plural sexistes)


actuaire

actuaire m or f by sense (plural actuaires)

(finance) actuary (professional who calculates financial values associated with uncertain events subject to risk, such as insurance premiums or pension contributions)


scénographe

scénographe m or f by sense (plural scénographes)


téléphoniste

téléphoniste m or f by sense (plural téléphonistes)


égoïste

égoïste m or f by sense (plural égoïstes)


activiste

activiste m or f by sense (plural activistes)

→ Turkish: aktivist


asthmatique

asthmatique m or f by sense (plural asthmatiques)

Learned borrowing from New Latin asthmaticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσθματικός (asthmatikós, “afflicted with shortness of breath”).


chantre

fr-noun

chantre m or f by sense (plural chantres, feminine chantresse)

Inherited from Old French chantre, from Latin cantor, via the nominative form. Compare chanteur, derived from the Latin accusative cantōrem.

Friedrich Nietzsche est le chantre de l’apocalypse de la modernité.

Friedrich Nietzsche is the champion of the apocalypse of modernity.

(figuratively) figurehead; champion; advocate


météorologue

météorologue m or f by sense (plural météorologues)

meteorologist (person who studies meteorology)


neurologue

neurologue m or f by sense (plural neurologues)


carriériste

carriériste m or f by sense (plural carriéristes)

careerist (person who pursues his or her own career as his or her main aim)


infirme

infirme m or f by sense (plural infirmes)


radariste

radariste m or f by sense (plural radaristes)


Berbère

Berbère m or f by sense (plural Berbères)


goinfre

goinfre m or f by sense (plural goinfres)


orfèvre

orfèvre m or f by sense (plural orfèvres, feminine orfèvresse)

Inherited from Old French, from or (“gold”) + fèvre, from Latin faber, as a replacement for Latin aurifex, which was preserved in some other Romance languages.

goldsmith, silversmith, smith who works with any precious metal


nostalgique

nostalgique m or f by sense (plural nostalgiques)

nostalgic (person who displays nostalgia)


agronome

agronome m or f by sense (plural agronomes)


hygiéniste

hygiéniste m or f by sense (plural hygiénistes)


ethnologue

ethnologue m or f by sense (plural ethnologues)


Chtimi

resident or native of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region


orthodoxe

orthodoxe m or f by sense (plural orthodoxes)

→ Ottoman Turkish: اورتودوقس (Ortodoks)

Turkish: Ortodoks

→ Persian: ارتدکس (ortodoks)

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin orthodoxus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀρθόδοξος (orthódoxos), from ὀρθός (orthós, “right”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”).


nivologue

fr-noun

nivologue m or f by sense (plural nivologues)


xénophobe

xénophobe m or f by sense (plural xénophobes)


unijambiste

unijambiste m or f by sense (plural unijambistes)

→ English: unijambist


unibrassiste

unibrassiste m or f by sense (plural unibrassistes)


hématologue

hématologue m or f by sense (plural hématologues)


claveciniste

claveciniste m or f by sense (plural clavecinistes)


gynécologue

gynécologue m or f by sense (plural gynécologues)

→ Romanian: ginecolog

→ Turkish: jinekolog


philuméniste

philuméniste m or f by sense (plural philuménistes)


Scandinave

Scandinave m or f by sense (plural Scandinaves)


contorsionniste

contorsionniste m or f by sense (plural contorsionnistes)


acéphale

acéphale m or f by sense (plural acéphales)


schizophrène

schizophrène m or f by sense (plural schizophrènes)


Yéménite

Yéménite m or f by sense (plural Yéménites)


radiologiste

radiologiste m or f by sense (plural radiologistes)


endocrinologue

endocrinologue m or f by sense (plural endocrinologues)

endocrinologist (practitioner of endocrinology)


millionnaire

millionnaire m or f by sense (plural millionnaires)

→ English: millionaire

→ Portuguese: milionário

→ Turkish: milyoner


pyromane

pyromane m or f by sense (plural pyromanes)

From Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + -mane.

pyromaniac (person who is obsessed with fire)


généraliste

généraliste m or f by sense (plural généralistes)

From général + -iste, on the model of spécialiste.

generalist (person with a broad general knowledge)


cryptanalyste

cryptanalyste m or f by sense (plural cryptanalystes)

cryptanalyst (an expert in analyzing and breaking codes)


ethnographe

ethnographe m or f by sense (plural ethnographes)

ethnographer (one who studies ethnography)


commissaire

commissaire m or f by sense (plural commissaires)

→ English: commissaire

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: قومیسر
Turkish: komiser

→ Romanian: comisar m

→ Tamil: குமுசியார் (kumuciyār)

Semi-learned borrowing from Medieval Latin commissiōnārius, from Latin commissiō.

slbor

chief of police, head of police, superintendent


chresmologue

fr-noun

chresmologue m or f by sense (plural chresmologues)


climatologue

climatologue m or f by sense (plural climatologues)


stoïque

stoïque m or f by sense (plural stoïques)

Borrowed from Latin stōicus, from Ancient Greek Στωϊκός (Stōïkós).


météorologiste

météorologiste m or f by sense (plural météorologistes)


russophone

russophone m or f by sense (plural russophones)


œnophile

œnophile m or f by sense (plural œnophiles)

From Ancient Greek: οἶνος (oînos, “wine”) in combination with φίλος (phílos, “loving”).


corniste

corniste m or f by sense (plural cornistes)


documentariste

documentariste m or f by sense (plural documentaristes)


salutiste

salutiste m or f by sense (plural salutistes)


étymologiste

étymologiste m or f by sense (plural étymologistes)

etymologist (person who specializes in etymology)


tankiste

tankiste m or f by sense (plural tankistes)


lyrique

lyrique m or f by sense (plural lyriques)


violoniste

violoniste m or f by sense (plural violonistes)


lapicide

lapicide m or f by sense (plural lapicides)


ergonomiste

ergonomiste m or f by sense (plural ergonomistes)


eurocrate

eurocrate m or f by sense (plural eurocrates)


vignettiste

vignettiste m or f by sense (plural vignettistes)


militariste

militariste m or f by sense (plural militaristes)


iconologiste

iconologiste m or f by sense (plural iconologistes)


paranoïaque

paranoïaque m or f by sense (plural paranoïaques)


croquemort

croquemort m or f by sense (plural croquemorts)


croque-mort

croque-mort m or f by sense (plural croque-morts)

Uncertain, possibly from dated verb croquer (“to make disappear”) or from croc (“hook”).

Au fossoyeur, au croque-mort, au curé, aux chevaux même ils payaient un verre.

1960, “Les Funérailles d'antan”, in Georges Brassens (lyrics), Les Funérailles d'antan:

They treated the gravedigger, the undertaker, the curate, and even the horses to a drink.


géomètre

géomètre m or f by sense (plural géomètres)

Learned borrowing from Latin geōmētrēs, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek γεωμέτρης (geōmétrēs).


miniaturiste

miniaturiste m or f by sense (plural miniaturistes)


monomane

monomane m or f by sense (plural monomanes)


Guatémaltèque

Guatémaltèque m or f by sense (plural Guatémaltèques)


africaniste

africaniste m or f by sense (plural africanistes)


papiste

papiste m or f by sense (plural papistes)


enfant unique

enfant unique m or f by sense (plural enfants uniques)


Chti

resident or native of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, especially a person who speaks Picard


thérapiste

thérapiste m or f by sense (plural thérapistes)


anticolonialiste

anticolonialiste m or f by sense (plural anticolonialistes)


dépositaire

dépositaire m or f by sense (plural dépositaires)


fourbe

— Moi, s’écria-t-elle, j’irais livrer au premier fourbe qui saura jouer la comédie d’une passion les dernières, les plus précieuses richesses de mon cœur, et corrompre ma vie pour un moment de douteux plaisir ?

1832, Honoré de Balzac, chapter 2, in Ellen Marriage, transl., La Femme de trente ans:

"Do you think," she cried, "that I shall bestow the last, the most precious treasures of my heart upon the first base impostor who can play the comedy of passion?


vibraphoniste

vibraphoniste m or f by sense (plural vibraphonistes)


aprioriste

aprioriste m or f by sense (plural aprioristes)


arabiste

arabiste m or f by sense (plural arabistes)


émule

faire des émules

to inspire others, to create a following, to be emulated

emulator, imitator (person that emulates or strives to do so)

(dated) rival (competitor with the same goal as another)

(dated) peer, equal (somebody who is at a level equal (to that of something else) in a given occupation, field, etc.)


politologue

politologue m or f by sense (plural politologues)


extrémiste

extrémiste m or f by sense (plural extrémistes)


géographe

géographe m or f by sense (plural géographes)


lexicomane

lexicomane m or f by sense (plural lexicomanes)

From Ancient Greek λέξῐς (léxĭs, “word”) + -mane.


pathologiste

fr-noun

pathologiste m or f by sense (plural pathologistes)


contestataire

contestataire m or f by sense (plural contestataires)


environnementaliste

environnementaliste m or f by sense (plural environnementalistes)


biochimiste

biochimiste m or f by sense (plural biochimistes)

biochemist (a chemist whose speciality is biochemistry)


Asiatique

Asiatique m or f by sense (plural Asiatiques)

Meronyms: Centre-Asiatique, Est-Asiatique, Ouest-Asiatique, Sud-Asiatique


géologue

géologue m or f by sense (plural géologues)

→ Turkish: jeolog


urologue

urologue m or f by sense (plural urologues)


kinésithérapeute

kinésithérapeute m or f by sense (plural kinésithérapeutes)


addictologue

addictologue m or f by sense (plural addictologues)


teen-ager

teen-ager m or f by sense (plural teen-agers)


Angliche

Angliche m or f by sense (plural Angliches)

Deliberately humorous spelling of English English.

(colloquial, derogatory, usually in the plural) Englishman/Englishwoman


dualiste

dualiste m or f by sense (plural dualistes)


dermatologue

dermatologue m or f by sense (plural dermatologues)


dodécaphoniste

dodécaphoniste m or f by sense (plural dodécaphonistes)

dodecaphonist (proponent of dodecaphony)


castriste

castriste m or f by sense (plural castristes)

From Castro (“surname of Fidel Castro”) + -iste.


universaliste

fr-noun

universaliste m or f by sense (plural universalistes)


Croate

→ Persian: کروات (korovât)


Turkmène

Turkmène m or f by sense (plural Turkmènes)


Helvète

Helvète m or f by sense (plural Helvètes)

Helvetian (resident or native of Helvetia)


Chypriote

Chypriote m or f by sense (plural Chypriotes)


Hellène

Hellène m or f by sense (plural Hellènes)

From Ancient Greek Ἕλλην (Héllēn, “Greek”).

Greek person, usually referring to Ancient Greek


psychothérapeute

psychothérapeute m or f by sense (plural psychothérapeutes)


thérapeute

thérapeute m or f by sense (plural thérapeutes)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek θεραπευτής (therapeutḗs, “attendant”).


œnologue

fr-noun

œnologue m or f by sense (plural œnologues)


musicologue

musicologue m or f by sense (plural musicologues)


océanographe

océanographe m or f by sense (plural océanographes)


royaliste

royaliste m or f by sense (plural royalistes)


loyaliste

loyaliste m or f by sense (plural loyalistes)


cocaïnomane

cocaïnomane m or f by sense (plural cocaïnomanes)


sadique

sadique m or f by sense (plural sadiques)

→ Italian: sadico

→ Portuguese: sádico

→ Spanish: sádico


biathlète

biathlète m or f by sense (plural biathlètes)


cartographe

cartographe m or f by sense (plural cartographes)


fétichiste

fétichiste m or f by sense (plural fétichistes)

Mais quel émoi s’emparait alors de la fétichiste que je suis ?


chienlit

chienlit m or f by sense (plural chienlits)

From chie (“shit”) + en (“in”) + lit (“bed”).


anthropophage

anthropophage m or f by sense (plural anthropophages)

From anthropo- + -phage; from Latin anthrōpophagus (“cannibal, man-eater”), from Ancient Greek ἀνθρωποφάγος (anthrōpophágos).

der

ἀνθρωποφάγος


boche

Either directly from tête de boche (“stubbornhead”), perhaps derived from caboche (“head”); or shortened from alboche, an alternation of allemand (“German”) influenced by tête de boche or the element -boche in rigolboche (“funny dance”), the latter perhaps ultimately from bamboche (“large marionette”).
Alternatively, from the German family name Bosch.

(derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) Boche, Kraut, German


dyslexique

fr-noun

dyslexique m or f by sense (plural dyslexiques)


stigmatisé

stigmatisé m or f by sense (plural stigmatisés)

Saint François d’Assise est célèbre pour être un stigmatisé.
St Francis of Assisi is famous for being a stigmatic.

stigmatic, person marked with Christ's stigmata


slaviste

slaviste m or f by sense (plural slavistes)

Seuls les slavistes lisent encore Astolphe de Custine aujourd’hui. ― Only Slavists still read Astolphe de Custine nowadays.

Slavist, linguist specialized in Slavic languages


socialo

socialo m or f by sense (plural socialos)

Les socialos organisent une manif. (Dictionnaire explicatif et combinatoire du français contemporain)


barbouze

barbouze m or f by sense (plural barbouzes)

From barbe (“beard”) + -ouze, because of the fake beard supposedly worn to hide the face.

Le « barbouze » […] joue un rôle fondamental dans l’univers politique élémentaire du « pied-noir ». Il cristallise l’ensemble des forces occultes qui s’acharnent à sa perte.

« Les Barbouzes » c’est d’abord un très bon titre (de film). Affublé d’un nom pareil, l’agent secret perd tout son mystère, se dépouille de sa légende. Il devient un rigolo qui amuse au lieu d’inquiéter.

Depuis qu’il est à l’armée, j’imagine qu’on lui a enseigné ces réflexes de barbouze, d’espion du dimanche.

2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 3, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:

(espionage, colloquial) secret agent; agent of a paramilitary force


sociétaire

sociétaire m or f by sense (plural sociétaires)

Sociétaire (ou membre sociétaire) de la Comédie-Française.

fellow, member of an association or society


couche-tard

couche-tard m or f by sense (plural couche-tard)

(Literally, “early sleeper”)

night owl (one who stays up late at night or goes to bed late)


aéronaute

aéronaute m or f by sense (plural aéronautes)


byzantinologue

byzantinologue m or f by sense (plural byzantinologues)

specialist on the Byzantine Empire; a Byzantinologist


Sarde

Sardinian (resident or native of Sardinia)


Slovaque

Slovaque m or f by sense (plural Slovaques)


hydrographe

hydrographe m or f by sense (plural hydrographes)


volcanologue

volcanologue m or f by sense (plural volcanologues)


francophobe

francophobe m or f by sense (plural francophobes)


francophile

francophile m or f by sense (plural francophiles)


anglophobe

anglophobe m or f by sense (plural anglophobes)


anglophile

anglophile m or f by sense (plural anglophiles)


hispanophile

hispanophile m or f by sense (plural hispanophiles)


germanophile

germanophile m or f by sense (plural germanophiles)


polygame

polygame m or f by sense (plural polygames)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πολύγαμος (polúgamos).


bioclimatologue

fr-noun

bioclimatologue m or f by sense (plural bioclimatologues)