orange

Inherited from Middle French orange, from Old French orenge, short form of late pomme d'orenge or pomme d'orange, which was calqued after Old Italian melarancia (mela + arancia). The o came into the word under influence of the place name Orange.
See English orange.

Les premiers TGV atlantiques étaient orange.

The first Atlantic TGV trains were orange.


LED

light-emitting diode
light-emitting diode#English

(electronics) LED (light-emitting diode)


beige

→ Catalan: beix

→ Dutch: beige

Afrikaans: beige

→ English: beige

Hindi: बेज (bej)

→ Hijazi Arabic: بيج (bēj)

→ Estonian: beež

→ Finnish: beesi, beige, bees

→ Galician: beixe

→ German: beige, Beige

→ Greek: μπεζ (bez)

→ Hungarian: bézs

→ Italian: beige

→ Japanese: ベージュ (bēju)

→ Korean: 베이지 (beiji)

→ Louisiana Creole: bèj

→ Luxembourgish: beige

→ Persian: بژ (bež)

→ Polish: beż

→ Portuguese: bege

→ Romanian: bej

→ Russian: беж (bež)

→ Spanish: beis, beige

→ Swedish: beige

→ Turkish: bej

→ Vietnamese: be


violet

fr-adj

violet (feminine violette, masculine plural violets, feminine plural violettes)

violette (feminine)
violets (masculine plural)
violettes (feminine plural)

Louisiana Creole: vyolé

From Old French violet, a back-formation from violette (“violet (flower)”), from viole + -ette, from Latin viola.


or

Haitian Creole: lò

From Middle French or, from Old French or, from Latin aurum, from Proto-Italic *auzom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂é-h₂us-o- (“glow”), from *h₂ews- (“to dawn, become light, become red”).

la parole est d’argent, le silence est d’or


cyan

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos).

lbor

Near-synonym: céruléen

cyan (vibrant pale greenish-blue colour between blue and green in the visible spectrum)


rose

Inherited from Middle French rose, from Old French rose, borrowed from Latin rosa (the expected form if it was inherited would be *reuse).


turquoise

Inherited from Old French turquois, from turc + -ois.


vert

Inherited from Middle French and Old French vert, from Vulgar Latin virdis, syncopated from Classical Latin viridis. Compare Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish verde. The Old French -t is due to regular final devoicing. The feminine was originally also vert and was extended with -e only during Middle French times, thus keeping the
devoiced sound.


vert

fr-adj

vert (feminine verte, masculine plural verts, feminine plural vertes)

verte (feminine)
verts (masculine plural)
vertes (feminine plural)

Haitian Creole: vèt, vè

Louisiana Creole: vè, vèr, vær

→ Wolof: wert

l’herbe est toujours plus verte ailleurs

l’herbe est toujours plus verte dans le pré du voisin

capitalisme vert

environmentally friendly
environmentally friendly

(figuratively) green, environmentally friendly


jaune

Inherited from Middle French jaune, iaune, from Old French jaune, jalne, from Latin galbinus.


nuit

Haitian Creole: nwit

Inherited from Middle French nuyt, from Old French noit, nuit, from Latin noctem, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.


cardinal

cardinal (feminine cardinale, masculine plural cardinaux, feminine plural cardinales)

cardinale (feminine)
cardinaux (masculine plural)
cardinales (feminine plural)


soleil

Inherited from Middle French soleil, from Old French soleil, from Vulgar Latin *sōliculus, diminutive of Latin sōl (“sun”), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥.


lune

Haitian Creole: lalin

Mauritian Creole: lalin

Seychellois Creole: lalin

Inherited from Middle French lune, from Old French lune, from Latin lūna, from Old Latin losna, from Proto-Italic *louksnā, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk-. Cognate with Spanish luna, Portuguese lua, Galician lúa, Catalan lluna, and Italian luna.


café

fr-noun

café m (usually uncountable, plural cafés)

Haitian Creole: kafe

Louisiana Creole: kafe

Borrowings

→ Albanian: kafeja

→ Alemannic German: Kaafe

→ Arabic: كَافِيه (kāfē)

Gulf Arabic: كافيه (kāfē)

→ Asturian: café

→ Bulgarian: кафе́ (kafé)

→ Cantonese: 咖啡 (gaa³ fe¹)

Taishanese: 咖啡 (ga¹ fie²)

→ Coeur d'Alene: lkaapi

→ Crimean Tatar: kafe

→ Danish: café

→ English: café

→ German: Café (“café”)

→ German: Kaffee (“coffee”)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: kaffe

→ Dutch: café

→ Hebrew: קָפֶה (kafé)

→ Khmer: កាហ្វេ (kaafee)

→ Kumak: kafe

→ Lao: ກາເຟ (kā fē)

→ Luxembourgish: Café

→ Mandarin: 咖啡 (kāfēi)

→ Norman: café

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: kaffi

→ Nzadi: kafɛ

→ Ojibwe: aapii

desctree

→ Russian: кафе́ (kafé)
→ Armenian: կաֆե (kafe)
→ Georgian: კაფე (ḳape)
→ Mongolian: кафе (kafe)
→ Ukrainian: кафе́ (kafé)

→ Persian:

Iranian Persian: کافه (kāfe)

→ Portuguese: café, cafè (obsolete)
Kadiwéu: gaape

→ Serbo-Croatian: kafić

→ Spanish: café
→ Cebuano: kape
→ Central Tarahumara: kajé
→ Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: cafe
→ Hiligaynon: kape
→ Mecayapan Nahuatl: capej
→ Navajo: ahwééh
→ Tagalog: kape
→ Hokkien: 咖啡 (ka-pé)
→ Waray-Waray: kape

→ Swedish: café

→ Tamil: கப்பே (kappē)

→ Thai: กาแฟ (gaa-fɛɛ)

→ West Uvean: kafe

→ Vietnamese: cà phê

Standard French

Belgium

Borrowed from Italian caffè, first appearing as the form caveé, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, “coffee”). Doublet of caoua.


croissant

→ English: croissant

→ German: Croissant

→ Italian: croissant

→ Korean: 크라상 (keurasang)

→ Malay: roti bulan sabit (calque)

→ Turkish: kruvasan

→ Spanish: cruasán

→ Asturian: curasán

→ Catalan: croissant

→ Portuguese: croassã

Present participle of the verb croître (“to increase, to grow”). From Old French croisant, from earlier creissant, from Latin crēscentem, present active participle of crēscō (“to augment”).

croissant de lune


croissant

fr-adj

croissant (feminine croissante, masculine plural croissants, feminine plural croissantes)

croissante (feminine)
croissants (masculine plural)
croissantes (feminine plural)


pers

pers (feminine perse, masculine plural pers, feminine plural perses)

perse (feminine)
pers (masculine plural)
perses (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Late Latin persus (“Persian”).

bor+

(literary) blue-green (particularly used in reference to eyes)


ton

Inherited from Old French ton, tos, from Latin tuus.

Tu as pensé à prendre ton livre ?

Ton écriture est jolie.

J’aime beaucoup ton manteau.

1 Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel

For the singular persons there are gender-neutral neologisms man


ton

→ Turkish: ton

Borrowed from Latin tonus. Doublet of tonus, a later borrowing.

Il y a un ton entre do et ré

Je n’aime pas le ton sur lequel tu me parles!

I don’t like your tone! (I don’t like the way you are talking to me!)

Différents tons de rouge.


rouge

→ English: rouge

Haitian Creole: rouj, wouj

→ Hijazi Arabic: روج (rōj)

→ Japanese: ルージュ (rūju)

→ Korean: 루주 (ruju)

Louisiana Creole: rouj

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: rouge

→ Serbo-Croatian: ruž

→ Swedish: rouge

→ Turkish: ruj

Inherited from Middle French rouge, from Old French roge, rouge, from Latin rubeus.


abricot

→ Basque: abrikot

→ Portuguese: abricote, abricó

From Middle French abricot, from dialectal Catalan abrecoc, abricoc, variants of standard albercoc, from Arabic اَلْبَرْقُوق (al-barqūq, “plums”), from Byzantine Greek βερικοκκία pl (berikokkía), from Ancient Greek πραικόκιον (praikókion), from Late Latin (persica) praecoqua pl, (mālum) praecoquum, neuter of Latin (persicum) praecox (literally “early-ripening peach”). Doublet of précoce.

bor

اَلْبَرْقُوق


abricot

bor

اَلْبَرْقُوق


gris

→ Greek: γκρι (gkri)

Louisiana Creole: gri

Mauritian Creole: gri

→ Portuguese: griso

→ Romanian: gri

Seychellois Creole: gri

→ Turkish: gri

Derived from Old French or Old Occitan, both from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz (“grey”). Akin to Old High German grīs (“grey”) (German greis) and Dutch grijs (“grey”). More at grizzle.


chandelier

From chandelle + -ier, or from Medieval Latin candelārius. Compare Catalan candeler, Italian candelaio, Spanish candelero.


kaki

Spelling evolved from khaki which was brought into French usage from the English, Hindu, Urdu and Persian word.


arc-en-ciel

Haitian Creole: lakansyèl


blanc

Antillean Creole: blan

Guianese Creole: blan

Haitian Creole: blan

Karipúna Creole French: blã

Louisiana Creole: blan, blon

Seychellois Creole: blan

Tayo: bla

→ Romanian: blanc

Inherited from Middle French blanc, from Old French blanc, branc, from Early Medieval Latin blancus, a borrowing of Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”).
Akin to Old High German blanch (“bright, white”) (German blank (“polished, naked”)), Old Norse blankr (“white”) (Danish blank (“bright, shiny”)), Dutch blank (“white, shining”). More at blink, blank.


noir

fr-adj

noir (feminine noire, masculine plural noirs, feminine plural noires)

noire (feminine)
noirs (masculine plural)
noires (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French noir, from Old French noir, neir, from Latin nigrum. Doublet of nègre.

Noir

black person; for the noun with the sense

Ce chat est noir.


bleu

Haitian Creole: ble

→ Greek: μπλε (ble)

→ Italian: blu

→ Ladino: blu

Louisiana Creole: blé, ble

Inherited from Middle French bleu, from Old French blöe, bleve, blef (“blue”), from Late Latin blāvus, from Frankish *blāu (“blue”), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰléh₁-, *bʰlh₁-, *bʰleh₁- (“yellow, grey, blue”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”). Cognate with Old High German blāo (“blue”) (German blau), Dutch blauw (“blue”), Old English blāw (“blue”). More at blue.

(Canada) a supporter of the Conservative Party


feu

→ Karipúna Creole French: djife

Inherited from Old French fu, from Latin focus (“hearth”), which in Late and Vulgar Latin replaced the Classical Latin ignis (“fire”).

feux tricolores

feux de signalisation

« Si le feu est vert, je passe »
« Si le feu est rouge, je m’arrête »

1999, Patrick Lemaire, Psychologie cognitive:

‘If the light is green, I go.’
‘If the light is red, I stop.’


cerise

Inherited from Old French cerise, from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from the neuter plural of Late Latin ceresium, from Latin cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin.


cerise

Haitian Creole: seriz

→ English: cerise

→ Swedish: cerise

Coordinate term: griotte


sanguine

(heraldry) a tincture, seldom used, of a blood-red colour (not to be confused with murrey, which is mûre in French)


argent

Haitian Creole: ajan

Louisiana Creole: larjên

Inherited from Middle French argent m, from Old French argent m, from Latin argentum n (according to the TLFi etymological dictionary, a borrowing), itself from Proto-Italic *argentom n, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm n, from *h₂erǵ- (“white”).

né avec une cuillère d’argent dans la bouche

né avec une cuillère en argent dans la bouche


brun

fr-adj

brun (feminine brune, masculine plural bruns, feminine plural brunes)

brune (feminine)
bruns (masculine plural)
brunes (feminine plural)

→ Breton: brun

Louisiana Creole: brun

→ Romanian: brun

From Middle French, from Old French brun (“polished, shiny, brown”).


minuit

Inherited from Middle French mynuyt, from Old French mie nuit, from mie, feminine singular of mi (“half, half way”) + nuit (“night”). Equivalent to mi- + nuit. Compare Occitan mièjanuèch, mièjanuèit, Catalan mitjanit, Portuguese meia-noite, Spanish medianoche, Italian mezzanotte, Romanian miazănoapte.

La nouvelle journée commence à minuit.

Il est déjà minuit?

Pendant les week-ends, je me couche à minuit.

On the weekends, I go to bed by midnight.


nocturne

→ Romanian: nocturn

1857, Charles Baudelaire, Je t'adore from Les Fleurs du mal
Je t’adore à l’égal de la voûte nocturne,
Ô vase de tristesse, ô grande taciturne
I love you as I love the night sky,


bonne nuit

good night (a phrase uttered upon a farewell)


marron

→ Asturian: marrón

→ Catalan: marró

→ Galician: marrón

Louisiana Creole: maron

→ Portuguese: marrom

→ Romanian: maro, maron

→ Spanish: marrón

→ Turkish: maron

Etymology tree
Byzantine Greek μάραον (máraon)bor.
Italian marronebor.
French marron
Borrowed from Italian marrone.


sable

From Old French martre sable (“sable marten”), an animal. From Middle Low German sabel (compare Middle Dutch sabel, Middle High German zobel); ultimately from a Balto-Slavic word (compare Russian со́боль (sóbolʹ), Polish soból, Czech sobol). Compare also Persian سمور (samur). Doublet of zibeline.

der

(heraldry) the heraldic colour sable; black


clair de lune

Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune, / Au calme clair de lune triste et beau, / Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres / Et sangloter d’extase les jets d’eau, / Les grands jets d’eau sveltes parmi les marbres.

1869, Paul Verlaine, Clair de lune [Moonlight]:

And their song blends with the moonlight, / With the sad and beautiful moonlight, / Which sets the birds in the trees dreaming, / And makes the fountains sob with ecstasy, / The tall slim water streams among the marble statues.


émeraude

Inherited from Old French esmeralde, esmeragde, from Vulgar Latin *smaralda, *smaraldus, *smaraudus, variant of Latin smaragdus (“emerald”), from Ancient Greek σμάραγδος (smáragdos), μάραγδος (máragdos, “emerald”), from a Semitic language.


éclat

→ English: éclat

→ German: Eklat

Deverbal from éclater (“to burst”), from Middle French esclater (“to break, break violently”), from Old French esclater (“to separate from, sunder out”) (deverbal also in Old French esclat), from Frankish *slaitan (“to split, break”), from Proto-Germanic *slaitijaną, causative of Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to cut up, split”). Akin to Old High German sleizan (“to tear”), Old English slītan (“to split”). More at slice, slit, slate, slat.

der

(Louisiana, in the plural) tinder, kindling


crème

desctree

→ Dutch: crème, kreem (Belgium, colloquial)
→ Indonesian: krèm
→ Papiamentu: krèm

→ English: crème, creme

→ German: creme

→ Romanian: crem

→ Turkish: krem

Inherited from Middle French chresme, from Old French cresme, from Late Latin crama, a Transalpine Gaulish word influenced by Latin chrisma (modern French chrême), from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma).


crème

→ Arabic: كريم (k(e)rēm)

→ Bulgarian: крем (krem)

→ Catalan: crema

→ Danish: creme
→ Faroese: krem

→ English: crème, creme

→ Esperanto: kremo
→ Ido: kremo

→ German: Creme, Crème, Krem, Kreme

→ Hungarian: krém (also via German)

→ Italian: crema
→ English: crema
→ Greek: κρέμα (kréma)
→ Turkish: krema

→ Japanese: クレーム (kurēmu)

desc

→ Khmer: ក្រេម (kreem), ក្រែម (kraem); ការ៉េម (kaareem)

→ Lao: ກະແລັມ (ka læm), ກະແລມ (ka lǣm, “ice cream”)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: krem

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: krem

→ Persian: کرم (kerem, krem)

→ Polish: krem

→ Portuguese: creme

→ Romanian: cremă

desctree

→ Russian: крем (krem)
→ Armenian: կրեմ (krem)
→ Azerbaijani: krem
→ Georgian: კრემი (ḳremi)
→ Yakut: крем (krem)

→ Spanish: crema
→ English: crema
→ Tagalog: krema
→ Turkish: krema

→ Swedish: kräm

→ Turkish: krem

→ Vietnamese: cà lem, cà rem, kem

→ Yiddish: קרעם (krem) (possibly via German)


chandelle

Haitian Creole: chandèl

→ Norman: chandelle

Inherited from Old French chandele, chandeile, chandoile, from Latin candēla (with a change of suffix to -elle, from Latin -ella). Doublet of candela.


pompier

fr-noun

pompier m (plural pompiers, feminine pompière)


lumière

Inherited from Middle French lumiere f, from Old French lumiere f, from Late Latin lūmināria f (“light”), neuter plural of lūmināre n (“star”) become feminine, ultimately from Latin lūmen n. Doublet of luminaire m.
Compare Occitan lumenaria f and Italian luminaria f.


ampoule

→ English: ampoule

→ Moore: ãmpulli

→ Persian: آمپول (âmpul)

→ Turkish: ampul

→ Laz: ამფული (ampuli)


luminaire

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin lūmināre, from Latin lūmen. Doublet of lumière, which was inherited.


azur

Inherited from Old French azur, borrowed from Medieval Latin azurium, from Arabic لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward, “lapis lazuli”), from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard, “lapis lazuli”).


ocre

From Late Latin ochra, from Ancient Greek ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “yellow”) (modern Greek ωχρός (ochrós)).


bougie

→ Catalan: bugia

→ English: bougie

→ Greek: μπουζί (bouzí)

→ Gulay: bùjì

→ Romanian: bujie

→ Spanish: bujía

→ Turkish: buji

From Bougie, the French name for the Algerian town of Béjaïa بجاية, formerly known for exporting candle wax.
Attested 1300 for "fine candle wax", and 1493 for "candle made from such wax".


vair

Inherited from Old French vair, veir, from the accusative singular masculine form of Latin varius.


lanterne

→ Danish: lanterne

→ Dutch: lantaarn

→ Norwegian: lanterne

→ Romanian: lanternă

→ Swedish: lanterna


lueur

Inherited from Middle French luour, lueur, from Old French lueur, luur, from Vulgar Latin *lūcōrem, from Latin lūceō. Compare Italian lucore, Romanian lucoare, Catalan llugor, Occitan lugor.

Aux lueurs de l’aube imprécise, / Dans les eaux troubles d’un miroir, / Tu te rencontres par hasard / Complètement noir

1966, “Les Papillons Noirs”, Serge Gainsbourg (lyrics), performed by Michèle Arnaud:

In the faint light of hazy dawn, / In the murky waters of a mirror, / You happen upon yourself / Completely black


applique

→ Bulgarian: аплик (aplik)

→ Catalan: aplic

→ German: Applike

→ Greek: απλίκα (aplíka)

→ Spanish: aplique

→ Swedish: applick

→ Turkish: aplik

(art) Any type of decoration applied or mounted to another object.


chalumeau

→ English: chalumeau

desc

→ North Levantine Arabic: شلمونة (šalimōne)

→ Turkish: şalümo

Inherited from Old French chalemel, from Late Latin calamellus, diminutive of Latin calamus (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, “reed”). Doublet of caramel.

oxy-fuel torch (usually oxy-acetylene; used for cutting, welding, etc.)


phare

→ Bulgarian: фар (far)

→ English: phare

→ Khmer: ហ្វារ (faa)

→ Luxembourgish: Phar

→ Macedonian: фар (far)

→ Moore: faare

→ Romanian: far

→ Russian: фара (fara)

→ Crimean Tatar: fara

→ Turkish: far

→ Vietnamese: pha

Borrowed from Latin pharus, itself from Ancient Greek Φάρος (Pháros).


flambeau

→ Dutch: flambouw

→ Spanish: flambó


rouille

Inherited from Old French reoïlle, from Vulgar Latin *robicla, from syncopation of Latin *robicula, a diminutive of Latin rōbīgō (“rust”) + -cula (from -culus (suffix forming diminutives)). Rōbīgō is derived from rōbus (a variant of rūfus (“red, reddish”)) + -īgō (suffix forming nouns usually denoting diseased conditions). Compare Catalan rovell, Occitan rovilh, Spanish robín.

(cooking) rouille (provençal sauce made with chilli and garlic)


tache solaire

fr-noun

tache solaire f (plural taches solaires)


torche

Inherited from Old French torche, from Vulgar Latin *torca, from torqua, Classical Latin torques, from the verb torqueō (“to twist; to turn”).


citrouille

Diminutive of Old French citre, from Latin citrus. Compare Italian cetriolo.


lampe de poche

lampe de poche f (plural lampes de poche)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-lampe de poche.wav


tombée de la nuit

tombée de la nuit f (usually uncountable, plural tombées de la nuit)

à la tombée de la nuit


crépuscule

Inherited from Middle French crepuscule m, from Old French crepuscule m (first attested in the late 13th c.), borrowed from Latin crepusculum n.

inh+

twilight, dusk (time of day between sunset and darkness)


nuitée

From nuit, analogous to journée. Compare Italian nottata.


solaire

Learned borrowing from Latin sōlāris, from sōl (“sun”).

(astronomy, relational) solar (relative to the sun)


coucher de soleil

fr-noun

coucher de soleil m (plural couchers de soleil)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-coucher de soleil.wav


découper

découper (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
découpant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
découpé (participle past)
découpe (first-person indicative present singular)
découpes (indicative present second-person singular)
découpe (indicative present singular third-person)
découpons (first-person indicative plural present)
découpez (indicative plural present second-person)
découpent (indicative plural present third-person)
découpais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
découpais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
découpait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
découpions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
découpiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
découpaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
découpai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
découpas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
découpa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
découpâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
découpâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
découpèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
découperai (first-person future indicative singular)
découperas (future indicative second-person singular)
découpera (future indicative singular third-person)
découperons (first-person future indicative plural)
découperez (future indicative plural second-person)
découperont (future indicative plural third-person)
découperais (conditional first-person singular)
découperais (conditional second-person singular)
découperait (conditional singular third-person)
découperions (conditional first-person plural)
découperiez (conditional plural second-person)
découperaient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
découpe (first-person present singular subjunctive)
découpes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
découpe (present singular subjunctive third-person)
découpions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
découpiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
découpent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
découpasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
découpasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
découpât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
découpassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
découpassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
découpassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
découpe (imperative second-person singular)
découpons (first-person imperative plural)
découpez (imperative plural second-person)


attiser

attiser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
attisant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
attisé (participle past)
attise (first-person indicative present singular)
attises (indicative present second-person singular)
attise (indicative present singular third-person)
attisons (first-person indicative plural present)
attisez (indicative plural present second-person)
attisent (indicative plural present third-person)
attisais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
attisais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
attisait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
attisions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
attisiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
attisaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
attisai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
attisas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
attisa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
attisâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
attisâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
attisèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
attiserai (first-person future indicative singular)
attiseras (future indicative second-person singular)
attisera (future indicative singular third-person)
attiserons (first-person future indicative plural)
attiserez (future indicative plural second-person)
attiseront (future indicative plural third-person)
attiserais (conditional first-person singular)
attiserais (conditional second-person singular)
attiserait (conditional singular third-person)
attiserions (conditional first-person plural)
attiseriez (conditional plural second-person)
attiseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
attise (first-person present singular subjunctive)
attises (present second-person singular subjunctive)
attise (present singular subjunctive third-person)
attisions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
attisiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
attisent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
attisasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
attisasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
attisât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
attisassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
attisassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
attisassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
attise (imperative second-person singular)
attisons (first-person imperative plural)
attisez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Old French atisier, from Vulgar Latin *attītiāre, derived from Latin tītiō (“firebrand”).

(transitive, figuratively) to fan the flames of, to stir up (emotion etc.); to inflame


citrin

fr-adj

citrin (feminine citrine, masculine plural citrins, feminine plural citrines)

citrine (feminine)
citrins (masculine plural)
citrines (feminine plural)


gueules

(heraldry) gules, red color of the blazon, only when used in the expression de gueules


mûre

From an alteration of Old French meure, from Vulgar Latin *mōra, from Latin mōrum, from Ancient Greek μόρον (móron).

(heraldry) murrey (dark red color as used in heraldry)


cendrée

(heraldry, rare) the blazoning term for gray


extincteur

Borrowed from Latin exstinctor. See éteindre + -teur.


faire noir

(idiomatic) to be dark, especially when it's night


enflammer

enflammer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
enflammant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
enflammé (participle past)
enflamme (first-person indicative present singular)
enflammes (indicative present second-person singular)
enflamme (indicative present singular third-person)
enflammons (first-person indicative plural present)
enflammez (indicative plural present second-person)
enflamment (indicative plural present third-person)
enflammais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
enflammais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
enflammait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
enflammions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
enflammiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
enflammaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
enflammai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
enflammas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
enflamma (historic indicative past singular third-person)
enflammâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
enflammâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
enflammèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
enflammerai (first-person future indicative singular)
enflammeras (future indicative second-person singular)
enflammera (future indicative singular third-person)
enflammerons (first-person future indicative plural)
enflammerez (future indicative plural second-person)
enflammeront (future indicative plural third-person)
enflammerais (conditional first-person singular)
enflammerais (conditional second-person singular)
enflammerait (conditional singular third-person)
enflammerions (conditional first-person plural)
enflammeriez (conditional plural second-person)
enflammeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
enflamme (first-person present singular subjunctive)
enflammes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
enflamme (present singular subjunctive third-person)
enflammions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
enflammiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
enflamment (plural present subjunctive third-person)
enflammasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
enflammasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
enflammât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
enflammassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
enflammassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
enflammassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
enflamme (imperative second-person singular)
enflammons (first-person imperative plural)
enflammez (imperative plural second-person)


tison

Inherited from Old French tisun, from Latin tītiōnem. Cognate with Spanish tizón and Catalan tió.

Ô muse de mon cœur, amante des palais, / Auras-tu quand Janvier lâchera ses Borées, / Durant les noirs ennuis des neigeuses soirées, / Un tison pour chauffer tes deux pieds violets ?

1857, Charles Baudelaire, “La Muse vénale”, in Les Fleurs du mal:

firebrand, ember (partially burnt piece of wood)


céruléen

céruléen (feminine céruléenne, masculine plural céruléens, feminine plural céruléennes)

céruléenne (feminine)
céruléens (masculine plural)
céruléennes (feminine plural)


quinquet

→ Catalan: quinqué

→ Polish: kinkiet

→ Spanish: quinqué

→ Russian: кинкет (kinket)

Named after pharmacist Antoine Quinquet (1745–1803).


cramoisi

fr-adj

cramoisi (feminine cramoisie, masculine plural cramoisis, feminine plural cramoisies)

cramoisie (feminine)
cramoisis (masculine plural)
cramoisies (feminine plural)


phare antibrouillard

fr-noun

phare antibrouillard m (plural phares antibrouillard)


luciole

Envoie toutes sortes de messages / Aux inconnus et lucioles de passage

1975, Yves Simon (lyrics and music), “Raconte-toi”:

Send all sorts of messages / To passing strangers and fireflies


isabelle

From the Spanish personal name Isabel, because of the legend that, during the Siege of Granada in 1491, Isabella the Catholic vowed not to change her shirt until the city was taken.


candélabre

Borrowed from Latin candēlābrum, from candēla (“candle”). Doublet of chandelier.


écarlate

From Old French escarlate (“scarlet cloth”), from Medieval Latin scarlatum (“scarlet cloth”), via Persian سقرلاط (saqerlât, “a warm woollen cloth”), a variant of سقلاط (seqellât, “scarlet cloth”) from Byzantine Greek σιγιλλᾶτος (sigillâtos), ultimately from Latin (textum) sigillātum.


garance

→ Portuguese: garança

Inherited from Middle French garance, from Old French garance, warance, from Frankish *wrattjā, from Proto-Germanic *wratjō (“red dye”). Cognate with Old High German rezza, reiza (“scarlet; purple; crimson; red; madder”), Old English wræt, wrætte (“crosswort; madder”).


pourpre

Inherited from Old French, from Latin purpura, from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra).

(heraldry) purpure; purple color as used in heraldry


lunaire

Inherited from Middle French lunaire, from Latin lūnāris.


blanchâtre

From blanche + -âtre. Compare Italian biancastro.


noirâtre

From noir + -âtre. Compare Italian nerastro.


grisé

Un grisé peut évoquer un temps ou air sombre.

A gray shading can evoke a gloomy weather or mood.

(art) grayish shade given to a work of art


ébène

Borrowed from Latin ebenus, from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ébenos).


ébène

Haitian Creole: ebèn


messe de minuit

fr-noun

messe de minuit f (plural messes de minuit)


nuitamment

From the Old French adverb nuitantre, nuitant (plus the suffix -amment), from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin noctanter, from Latin nox.


glauque

glauque:


roussâtre

From roux + -âtre. Compare Italian rossastro.


tanné

(heraldry) tenné, a rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown


falot

Borrowed from Italian falò, ultimately from Ancient Greek φανός (phanós).


avivage

brightening (act or process of making brighter)


sapeur-pompier

sapeur-pompier m (plural sapeurs-pompiers, feminine sapeuse-pompière)

sapeurs-pompiers (plural)
sapeuse-pompière (feminine)

Coordinate term: marin-pompier


nyctalopie

night vision (the ability for certain animals to see during the night)


fauve

Inherited from Middle French fauve, from Old French falve, from Late Latin falvus, a borrowing from Frankish *falu, *falw- (compare Dutch vaal, English fallow and German falb), from Proto-Germanic *falwaz (“pale, grey”). The adjectival sense of "savage, fierce" comes from the noun sense "wild animal," which is in turn a shortening of bête au pelage fauve (“animal with tawny fur”).


cadran lunaire

cadran lunaire m (plural cadrans lunaires)


embrasement

From embraser (“to set fire to”) + -ment.


grège

From Middle French grège (“(adjective) of silk: raw, unfinished; of the colour of such silk, greyish-beige; (noun) raw or unfinished silk; the colour of such silk, greyish-beige”), from Italian greggio (“raw, unrefined; unbleached”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Vulgar Latin *gregius (as in lana *gregia (“untreated wool as obtained from the flock”)), from grex (“flock (of sheep, etc.)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- (“flock, herd; to gather”).

der

of the colour of such silk, between grey and beige; greige


grège

grège:

the colour of such silk, closely akin to taupe; greyish-beige, greige


bleu de Chartres

fr-noun

bleu de Chartres m (usually uncountable, plural bleus de Chartres)

(glassworking) Chartres blue (blue used for the windows of Chartres Cathedral)


zinzolin

fr-adj

zinzolin (feminine zinzoline, masculine plural zinzolins, feminine plural zinzolines)

zinzoline (feminine)
zinzolins (masculine plural)
zinzolines (feminine plural)

→ Spanish: cinzolín


astre du jour

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canadair

Genericized trademark. From the company name Canadair, the manufacturer of the only purpose-built waterbomber, from the original version, Canadair CL-215. From English Canada+air, from being a Canadian aircraft manufacturer. Compare Greek καναντέρ (kanantér), Italian canadair, Serbo-Croatian kanader / канадер, Macedonian канадер (kanader)

(France, firefighting, aviation) waterbomber (firefighting aircraft)


de nuit

un train de nuit

le travail de nuit


chimiluminescence

fr-noun

chimiluminescence f (plural chimiluminescences)


ensoleillement

ensoleillement m (plural ensoleillements)

From ensoleiller (“to illuminate”) + -ment.


éclairement

From éclairer (“to illuminate”) + -ment.


héliocentrique

Coordinate term: géocentrique


bûcher

pyre (funeral pile; combustible heap on which corpses are burned)


azuré

fr-adj

azuré (feminine azurée, masculine plural azurés, feminine plural azurées)

azurée (feminine)
azurés (masculine plural)
azurées (feminine plural)


ultramarin

ultramarin (feminine ultramarine, masculine plural ultramarins, feminine plural ultramarines)

ultramarine (feminine)
ultramarins (masculine plural)
ultramarines (feminine plural)


borne-fontaine

fr-noun

borne-fontaine f (plural bornes-fontaines)


borne d'incendie

borne d’incendie f (plural bornes d’incendie)

borne d’ incendie (canonical feminine)
bornes d’incendie (plural)


caserne de pompiers

caserne de pompiers f (plural casernes de pompiers)


être dans la lune

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away with the fairies
away with the fairies

(figuratively) to be lost in reveries; to be away with the fairies; to be daydreaming; to be in another world; to be distracted; to be absent-minded


orcanette

From orcanet (“bugloss”) + -ette (a feminizing suffix), an orthographic variant of the Old French arquenet (m), the diminutive form of Old French arquin (m), alcanne (“antimony”). Compare the Spanish alcana.

La coloration des crayons était autrefois presque uniquement obtenue avec le racine d’orcanette restant, au bain-marie, en contact avec la matière grasse.

1924, Marcel Hégelbacher, La Parfumerie et la Savonnerie, page 131:


cramoisissement

cramoisissement m (plural cramoisissements)

Déconcerté par le soudain cramoisissement de son visage, je ne sus quoi répondre.

1892, E. N. Lambert, Le Carrefour des trois arbres, Parnavis & Co, page 127:


demi-lune

→ English: demilune


mouche à feu

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Possibly a calque of English firefly, but the evidence is not clear.

(Louisiana)


soleil de minuit

soleil de minuit m (usually uncountable, plural soleils de minuit)

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jaune citron

citron, lemon (of a greenish yellow colour)


blanc cassé

off-white (of a very pale colour that is almost white)


jaune paille

straw (of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw)


tapage nocturne

(law) disturbing the peace at night, night-time disturbance, making excessive noise at night


bouche d'incendie

bouche d’incendie f (plural bouches d’incendie)

bouche d’ incendie (canonical feminine)
bouches d’incendie (plural)


faire nuit

Il fait nuit.


éclipse lunaire

éclipse lunaire f (plural éclipses lunaires)


lampe de bureau

lampe de bureau f (plural lampes de bureau)


diode électroluminescente

diode électroluminescente f (plural diodes électroluminescentes)

light-emitting diode
light-emitting diode


lampe de chevet

lampe de chevet f (plural lampes de chevet)


heure du mystère

l’ heure du mystère (canonical feminine)

Ils sont là, un à un, à l’heure du mystère dévoilé où naît la lumière...

1999, Maurice Joncas, L'espérance retrouvée : Chemins de vie, page 23:

There they are, one by one, at the unveiled dusk where the light is born...

Le soir, astiqués et gominés, nous nous sommes promenés dans le parc, avant l’heure du mystère.

1998, Louis Lerne, La bête et la pluie, page 120:

At night, polished and slick, we walked in the park, before dusk.

Nous y étions à l’heure du mystère, et serrées l’une contre l’autre, nous entendions les battements fous de notre cœur.

1920, Camille Flammarion, La mort et son mystére : Après la mort, page 176:

We were there at dusk, and pressed against each other, we heard the mad beating of our hearts.


cécité nocturne

cécité nocturne f (usually uncountable, plural cécités nocturnes)


noir de fumée

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Holonym: encre de Chine


orcanette des teinturiers

orcanette des teinturiers f (plural orcanettes des teinturiers)

orcanette (“bugloss”) + teinturiers (“dyer”)

com

La racine rouge de l’orcanette des teinturiers servait autrefois à faire de la teinture.

Alkanet’s red root has historically been used as a dyeing agent.


orcanette tinctoriale

fr-noun

orcanette tinctoriale f (plural orcanettes tinctoriales)

orcanette (“bugloss”) + tinctoriale (“tinctorial”)

com

f


orcanette jaune

fr-noun

orcanette jaune f (plural orcanettes jaunes)

orcanette (“bugloss”) + jaune (“yellow”)

com

Alkanna lutea (lutea meaning yellow in Latin)


sciophile

(botany) Alternative form of sciaphile (“sciophilous”)


lampe à pétrole

fr-noun

lampe à pétrole f (plural lampes à pétrole)


marin-pompier

marin-pompier m (plural marins-pompiers)

Coordinate term: sapeur-pompier

En ce premier grand week-end de chassé-croisé des vacances d’été, les marins-pompiers de Marseille appellent à la plus grande vigilance et rappellent les précautions essentielles en cette période.

2024 July 10, “En période estivale, le rappel essentiel des bonnes pratiques”, in La Provence, page 10:

(France, military) a member of a French marine corps principally concerned with firefighting and search and rescue missions