Anglais

Anglais m (plural Anglais, feminine Anglaise)

(Louisiana) an Anglo-American or English speaker, as opposed to someone with French ancestry


Anna

A Latinate variant of French Anne, from Ἄννα (Ánna), equal to the Hebrew female name חַנָּה (ḥannâ) of Old Testament, meaning "grace, gracious". Cognate with English Anna.

a female given name, equivalent to English Ann


Atlas

Learned borrowing from Latin Atlas, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).

(Greek mythology) Atlas (son of Iapetus and Clymene, leader of the Titans ordered by Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders)

(astronomy) Atlas (star in the Pleiades)

(astronomy) Atlas (crater in the first quadrant of the moon)


Avril

English: Avril


Barbe

a female given name, equivalent to English Barbara as a saint's name. Usual given name form: Barbara


C.

Abbreviation of grosse caisse (“bass drum”).


Canadien

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

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

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

(ice hockey) The Montreal Canadiens hockey club.


Caro

a diminutive of the female given names Carole, Caroline, or Carolane


City

(finance, with definite article) the City


Claire

From Latin Clara, with transparent meaning in modern French (claire).

a female given name, equivalent to English Clara


Corse

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


Cronos

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κρόνος (Krónos).


Céleste

a female given name, equivalent to English Celeste


Dieu

Guianese Creole: Bondjé

Mauritian Creole: Bondye

desctree

Saint Dominican Creole French: bon Dieu
Haitian Creole: Bondye

Seychellois Creole: Bondye

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Inherited from Middle French Dieu < Old French Deu, from Latin Deus.


E

The fifth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.


Fleur

English: Fleur

Fleur Pellerin, b. 1973


Flora

a female given name from Latin, a Latinate variant of Flore


Flore

a female given name from Latin, equivalent to English Flora


Franc

fr-noun

Franc m (plural Francs, feminine Franque)

Inherited from Middle French franc (“noble”), from Old French franc, from Latin Francus, from Frankish *Franko (“a Frank”), from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”).

inh+

Frank (member of a people that inhabited parts of what are now France, the Low Countries and Germany)


Frank

a male given name, equivalent to English Frank


Français

fr-noun

Français m (plural Français, feminine Française)

Louisiana Creole: Françé, Fransé

(Louisiana) anybody with French ancestry or who is Francophone


Gaulois

Gaulois m (plural Gaulois, feminine Gauloise)


Genie

a diminutive of the female given name Eugénie


Guy

Inherited from Middle French Guy, from Old French Gui, from Old High German Wido, a short form of names beginning with the element Proto-Germanic *widuz (“wood”).

a male given name, equivalent to English Guy (diminutive of Guillaume)


Henry

a male given name, a less common spelling of Henri


Hongrois

Hongrois m (plural Hongrois, feminine Hongroise)

Hungarian, resident or native of Hungary (male or of unspecified gender)


Italien

Italien m (plural Italiens, feminine Italienne)


Jade

a female given name from the noun jade, popular in the 2000s


Japonais

Japonais m (plural Japonais, feminine Japonaise)

resident or native of Japan; Japanese person (male or of unspecified gender)


Jean

→ Japanese: ジャン (Jan)

→ Persian: ژان (žân)

→ Limburgish: Sjang, Sjeng

desc

→ Chinese: → 讓 /让 (ràng) (transliteration)

Inherited from Old French Jehan, from Latin Iōhannēs, from Ancient Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Hebrew יוחנן (Yôḥānān, “Yahweh is gracious”).

der

a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English John, traditionally very popular in France, also common as the first part of hyphenated given names


Jo

a unisex given name, a pet name diminutive of Joanne, Joanna, Josée, José, Joseph, etc.


John

Borrowed from English John. Doublet of Jean.

A male given name and surname in English


Latin

resident or native of a Romance country such as Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Romania, etc, whose language is derived from Latin


Lego

J’ai trouvé un Lego sous ton lit.

I've found a Lego (brick) under your bed.

Je collectionne les Lego (ou Legos).
I collect Lego/Legos.

J’ai acheté une voiture Lego.

Un avion en Lego/Legos
A plane made of Lego/Legos


Libanais

fr-noun

Libanais m (plural Libanais, feminine Libanaise)


Lore

a female given name, variant of Laure, equivalent to English Laura


Madeleine

Inherited from Latin Magdalēna. Doublet of Magdaléna.

— M. Léon, disait le pharmacien, avec qui j’en causais l’autre jour, s’étonne que vous ne choisissiez point Madeleine, qui est excessivement à la mode maintenant.
Mais la mère Bovary se récria bien fort sur ce nom de pécheresse.

1857, Gustave Flaubert, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, Madame Bovary: Part II, Chapter III::

"Monsieur Leon," said the chemist, "with whom I was talking about it the other day, wonders you do not chose Madeleine. It is very much in fashion just now."
But Madame Bovary, senior, cried out loudly against this name of a sinner.

a female given name, equivalent to English Magdalene


Malais

Malais m (plural Malais, feminine Malaise)


Marc

Haitian Creole: Mak

a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Mark


Marcel

From Latin Marcellus, diminutive of Marcus.

a male given name, equivalent to English Marcel, traditionally popular in France, borne by a 3rd century saint


Marina

Latin Marīna. A Latinate variant of the French Marine.


Marine

a female given name, equivalent to English Marina


Mars

→ Persian: مارس (mârs)


Martin

Borrowed from Latin Mārtīnus (“of or like Mars” or “little Mars”, from Mars + -īnus (diminutive suffix)).

bor+

a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Martin. Feminine form: Martine


Me

Mᵉ (canonical feminine masculine)
Mᵉˢ (plural)

Abbreviation of Maître/Maitre, a title given to lawyers and notaries public.


Mme

Mᵐᵉ (canonical)
Mme (canonical feminine)
Mᵐᵉˢ (plural)
Mmes (plural)

Je peux prouver que, la nuit où Mme Christine a été refroidie, je me trouvais peinard à Marseille, même qu’on trouvera mon nom en grosses lettres à l’affiche du Miramar...

1959, Georges Simenon, Une Confidence de Maigret, Paris: Presses de la Cité, page 164:

I can prove that, the night Madame Christine was bumped off, I was in Marseille; you'll even find my name in big letters on the bill at the Miramar...


Mongol

fr-noun

Mongol m (plural Mongols, feminine Mongole)


N

the fourteenth letter of the French alphabet


O

the fifteenth letter of the French alphabet


Olivier

Attested in the 11th century as Oliver in The Song of Roland.

a male given name, equivalent to English Oliver


Omer

Ultimately from Frankish *Audamār, which consists of Proto-Germanic *audaz (“wealth, riches”) and *mēraz (“famous”). Cognates include Czech and German Otmar.
Cognates of *ōd- from *audaz include the first part of the given names Otto, Edward and Edmund. See also Old English ēad.
Cognates of *-mǣr-/*-mār- from *mērijaz include: the second part of given names like Sigmar, Dietmar, Ingemar, etc. See Old English mǣre.


Parole

Au commencement était la Parole, et la Parole était avec Dieu, et la Parole était Dieu.

1979, La Bible, Nouvelle Édition de Genève, Jean 1:1:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.


Pascal

Translingual: Pa

English: Pascal

English: pascal


Persan

fr-noun

Persan m (plural Persans, feminine Persane)


Pierre

Inherited from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”), related to πέτρα (pétra) (compare pierre (“stone, rock”)).

Il n’est pas rare aujourd’hui que le garçon bouvier se nomme Arthur, Alfred ou Alphonse, et que le vicomte — s’il y a encore des vicomtes — se nomme Thomas, Pierre ou Jacques. Ce déplacement qui met le nom « élégant » sur le plébéien et le nom campagnard sur l’aristocrate n’est autre chose qu’un remous d’égalité. L’irrésistible pénétration du souffle nouveau est là comme en tout.

1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 2, in Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine, book 4; republished as Isabel F. Hapgood, transl., 1887:

It is not rare for the neatherd's boy nowadays to bear the name of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This displacement, which places the "elegant" name on the plebeian and the rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. The irresistible penetration of the new inspiration is there as everywhere else.

a male given name traditionally popular in France


Portoricain

Portoricain m (plural Portoricains, feminine Portoricaine)

Portoricains (plural)
Portoricaine (feminine)

From Porto Rico, itself from the Spanish Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rican (resident or native of Puerto Rico)


Reine

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A more gallicized form of Régine, from Latin Regina (“queen”)


Robin

Inherited from Old French diminutive of Robert.

a male given name, equivalent to English Robin


Roger

a male given name, from Old French Rogier (itself from Old Frankish), which was borrowed into English as Roger


Rose

a female given name, equivalent to English Rose


Rémois

Rémois m (plural Rémois, feminine Rémoise)


S

The nineteenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.


Scorpion

(astrology) the celestial constellation Scorpio


Tempo

Genericization of the trademark Tempo. From the name of a popular manufacturer of such structures. Clipping of temporaire.

(Quebec, automotive) Tempo: A type of temporary car shelter


Tour

(cycling, by ellipsis) the Tour de France


Tuba

(music) Abbreviation of tuba basse (“bass tuba”).


Valentine

a female given name, feminine form of Valentin


Victor

a male given name, equivalent to English Victor


Vierge

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

(astronomy) the stellar constellation Virgo


Y

From Old French Y, Hy, I from Latin Iacum.

A French commune in the Somme département.


louis

→ Catalan: lluís

→ English: louis

→ Spanish: luis

From Louis, the name of the kings of France who first issued these coins and whose images appeared on their obverses.

(historical numismatics) a louis: various gold and silver coins issued by the Kingdom, Republic, and (slang) Empire of France

(historical numismatics, slang) 20 francs


monaco

a cocktail made of beer mixed with grenadine syrup


réunion

→ Romanian: reuniune


rb

(basketball) Abbreviation of rebond (“rebound”).


champagne

→ Catalan: xampany

→ Dutch: champagne

→ English: champagne

→ Korean: 샴페인 (syampein)

→ German: Champagner

→ Greek: σαμπάνια (sampánia)

→ Italian: champagne

desc

→ Norwegian Bokmål: champagne, sjampanje

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: champagne, sjampanje

→ Polish: szampan

→ Portuguese: champanhe, champanha, champagne, champãe (eye dialect)

→ Spanish: champaña, champán

→ Swedish: champagne

From the region Champagne, from Late Latin campānia (in this case, Campania Remensis specifically), from campāneus, from Latin campus.

(countable, uncountable, non-European French, informal) sparkling wine, generic champagne

(countable, heraldry) base; bottom third of a coat of arms


auge

From Latin alveus; according to the TLFi etymological dictionary, it was a (very early) borrowing.

(masonry) mixing tub, mortar box (pan or tub for mixing mortar)

(anatomy) intermandibular region (of a horse or other mammal)


je t'aime

Je t’aime à la folie


basque

Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange#Works
fr:basque

This form is inherited from Middle French and took precedence in the mid 15th century. Derived from Latin Vascō, singular form of the plural noun Vascones (see there for more).
The transition of the initial -v- to -b- indicates a likely loan from Spanish or Occitan. Old French forms included bascle, and Old Provençal (Occitan), bascon, basclon. Medieval Latin had the plurals bascli, basculi, and basclos, basculos, but also basclones, basculones, while Renaissance Latin used Basculus among other names. The latinate forms with a v have remained in use too. Doublet of gascon and Vascon, from the accusative form Vasconem. A connection to the family of Basque euskal, euskara is uncertain.

Il n’était pas fidèle, et elles se suspendaient d’autant plus facilement à ses basques que lui ne pensait qu’à se défiler.

2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 15:


tréma; when placed above a letter, indicates that the vowel letter should be pronounced separately from a vowel letter next to it.


ladin

Taken from the proper name of the language.


volapük

fr-noun

volapük m (usually uncountable, plural volapüks)

— Elle ne disait pas très bien les vers ? hasarda l’ami de Bloch pour flatter Rachel, qui répondit :
— Oh ! ça, elle n’a jamais su en dire un ; c’était de la prose, du chinois, du volapük, tout, excepté un vers. D’ailleurs, je vous dirai que, bien entendu, je ne l’ai entendue que très peu, sur sa fin, ajouta-t-elle pour se rajeunir, mais on m’a dit qu’autrefois ce n’était pas mieux, au contraire.

1927, Marcel Proust, edited by Gallimard, Le temps retrouvé:


breton

Plusieurs mots de la langue française tel que bijou sont issus du breton.

Several words of the French language such as bijou come from Breton.


jovial

fr-adj

jovial (feminine joviale, masculine plural joviaux, feminine plural joviales)

joviale (feminine)
joviaux (masculine plural)
joviales (feminine plural)

⇒ Czech: žoviální

Borrowed from Italian gioviale, from Latin ioviālis. Unrelated to joie.

Near-synonym: gai


occitan

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Occitānus in the phrase lingua Occitāna, Latinization of langue d’oc. The ending -itanus perhaps after aquitanus.


occitan

occitan (feminine occitane, masculine plural occitans, feminine plural occitanes)

occitane (feminine)
occitans (masculine plural)
occitanes (feminine plural)


java

On vous corne dans les oreilles / Que les javas sont toutes pareilles / Et ben ceux qui disent ça / C’est qu’ils connaissent pas / Cézigue et sa java. Hop !

1936, “La java de Cézigue”, performed by Edith Piaf:

(dance) a popular dance developed in 1920s Paris


brigade

→ Bulgarian: бригада (brigada)

→ Catalan: brigada

→ Czech: brigáda

→ Dutch: brigade
→ Indonesian: brigade

→ English: brigade

→ German: Brigade

→ Hungarian: brigád

→ Russian: бригада (brigada) (see there for further descendants)

→ Polish: brygada

desctree

→ Portuguese: brigada
→ Javanese: ꦧꦽꦒꦢ (bregada)
→ Indonesian: bregada

→ Romanian: brigadă

→ Serbo-Croatian: бригада, brigáda

→ Slovak: brigáda

→ Spanish: brigada

→ Swedish: brigad


couchette

English: couchette

Russian: кушетка (kušetka)


conception

Inherited from Old French conception, concepcion, borrowed from Latin conceptiōnem (“comprehension, understanding”).


vibrato

Borrowed from Italian vibrato m, past participle of vibrare (“to vibrate”), cognate with vibré m.


Martial

From Latin Martiālis. Name of a third century saint.

a male given name, in continuous use (though not particularly popular)


sororicide

Learned borrowing from Latin sorōricīda.


fondu

From Early Medieval Latin fundūtus (“melted”).

inh

fondu au noir


EDM

electronic dance music
electronic dance music#English

(music) Initialism of electronic dance music.


Abel

a diminutive of the male given names Abeau or Abelin


cassette

→ Catalan: casset

→ Dutch: cassette

→ English: cassette

→ Portuguese: cassete

→ Spanish: casete

→ Persian: کاست (kâset)

From Old French casse (“case”) + -ette (diminutive), hence a small case. Cognate with Italian cassetta.


muscovite

→ Romanian: muscovit


rectum

Borrowed from Latin rectum (intestīnum) (“straight intestine”).


Christine

Borrowed from Latin Chrīstiāna, the name of an early martyr. Doublet of chrétienne.

a female given name, equivalent to English Christina


kir breton

a cocktail made with a measure of crème de cassis topped up with cider


glaçon

→ Catalan: glaçó

Haitian Creole: glason

Mauritian Creole: glason

Seychellois Creole: glason


prendre un verre

/pʁɑ̃.dʁ‿œ̃ vɛʁ/

LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-prendre un verre.wav

On va prendre un verre en ville, ça vous dit ?

We’re going to have a drink in town if you fancy coming.


picoler

picoler (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
picolant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
picolé (participle past)
picole (first-person indicative present singular)
picoles (indicative present second-person singular)
picole (indicative present singular third-person)
picolons (first-person indicative plural present)
picolez (indicative plural present second-person)
picolent (indicative plural present third-person)
picolais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
picolais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
picolait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
picolions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
picoliez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
picolaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
picolai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
picolas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
picola (historic indicative past singular third-person)
picolâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
picolâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
picolèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
picolerai (first-person future indicative singular)
picoleras (future indicative second-person singular)
picolera (future indicative singular third-person)
picolerons (first-person future indicative plural)
picolerez (future indicative plural second-person)
picoleront (future indicative plural third-person)
picolerais (conditional first-person singular)
picolerais (conditional second-person singular)
picolerait (conditional singular third-person)
picolerions (conditional first-person plural)
picoleriez (conditional plural second-person)
picoleraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
picole (first-person present singular subjunctive)
picoles (present second-person singular subjunctive)
picole (present singular subjunctive third-person)
picolions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
picoliez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
picolent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
picolasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
picolasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
picolât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
picolassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
picolassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
picolassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
picole (imperative second-person singular)
picolons (first-person imperative plural)
picolez (imperative plural second-person)

Il a essayé de trouver du travail comme serveur dans un bar mais je crois bien qu’il a passé plus de temps à picoler au comptoir du bar qu’à y demander du travail.

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

He tried to find work as a barman, but I think he spent more time drinking at the bar than asking for work there.

(colloquial, transitive, intransitive) to drink, tipple


toper

toper (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
topant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
topé (participle past)
tope (first-person indicative present singular)
topes (indicative present second-person singular)
tope (indicative present singular third-person)
topons (first-person indicative plural present)
topez (indicative plural present second-person)
topent (indicative plural present third-person)
topais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
topais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
topait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
topions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
topiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
topaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
topai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
topas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
topa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
topâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
topâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
topèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
toperai (first-person future indicative singular)
toperas (future indicative second-person singular)
topera (future indicative singular third-person)
toperons (first-person future indicative plural)
toperez (future indicative plural second-person)
toperont (future indicative plural third-person)
toperais (conditional first-person singular)
toperais (conditional second-person singular)
toperait (conditional singular third-person)
toperions (conditional first-person plural)
toperiez (conditional plural second-person)
toperaient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
tope (first-person present singular subjunctive)
topes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
tope (present singular subjunctive third-person)
topions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
topiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
topent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
topasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
topasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
topât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
topassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
topassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
topassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
tope (imperative second-person singular)
topons (first-person imperative plural)
topez (imperative plural second-person)


gueule de bois

fr-noun

gueule de bois f (plural gueules de bois)

Literally, “mouth of wood”. Thought to have developed first for simply a dry mouth, as that is often a characteristic of the repercussions of over-drinking.


hindi

Hindi; one of the official languages of India


PO

REMISE IMMÉDIATE Vous récupérez 6% des PO dépensées quand vous achetez des objets légendaries.

2024 October 20, “What does PO mean?”, in Reddit:

Cash Back Upon purchasing a Legendary item, you are automatically refunded 6% of its total gold cost.


modus operandi

modus operandi m (plural modus operandi)


triplet

(mathematics, biology, architecture) triplet, group of three things


RE

(French politics) Abbreviation of Renaissance.


tweeter

tweeter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
tweetant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
tweeté (participle past)
tweete (first-person indicative present singular)
tweetes (indicative present second-person singular)
tweete (indicative present singular third-person)
tweetons (first-person indicative plural present)
tweetez (indicative plural present second-person)
tweetent (indicative plural present third-person)
tweetais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
tweetais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
tweetait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
tweetions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
tweetiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
tweetaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
tweetai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
tweetas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
tweeta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
tweetâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
tweetâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
tweetèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
tweeterai (first-person future indicative singular)
tweeteras (future indicative second-person singular)
tweetera (future indicative singular third-person)
tweeterons (first-person future indicative plural)
tweeterez (future indicative plural second-person)
tweeteront (future indicative plural third-person)
tweeterais (conditional first-person singular)
tweeterais (conditional second-person singular)
tweeterait (conditional singular third-person)
tweeterions (conditional first-person plural)
tweeteriez (conditional plural second-person)
tweeteraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
tweete (first-person present singular subjunctive)
tweetes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
tweete (present singular subjunctive third-person)
tweetions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
tweetiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
tweetent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
tweetasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
tweetasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
tweetât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
tweetassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
tweetassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
tweetassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
tweete (imperative second-person singular)
tweetons (first-person imperative plural)
tweetez (imperative plural second-person)

J’ai tweeté les idées essentielles et vous pouvez les retrouver sur @transnets.

2009, Francis Pisani, “Le futur « hybride » des médias”, in Le Monde Blogs:

I have tweeted the essential ideas and you can find them on @transnets.

Quatre étudiants américains viennent de mettre au point une paire de gants équipée d’un micro vous permettant de tweeter à toute heure du jour et de la nuit [...]

2014, Hugo Pascual, “Vite, mes gants ! Il faut que je tweete”, in Libération:

Four American students have just developed a pair of gloves fitted with a microphone allowing you to tweet at any time of the day or night …

(transitive, intransitive, Internet) to tweet (post to Twitter)


faucher

faucher (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
fauchant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
fauché (participle past)
fauche (first-person indicative present singular)
fauches (indicative present second-person singular)
fauche (indicative present singular third-person)
fauchons (first-person indicative plural present)
fauchez (indicative plural present second-person)
fauchent (indicative plural present third-person)
fauchais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
fauchais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
fauchait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
fauchions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
fauchiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
fauchaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
fauchai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
fauchas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
faucha (historic indicative past singular third-person)
fauchâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
fauchâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
fauchèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
faucherai (first-person future indicative singular)
faucheras (future indicative second-person singular)
fauchera (future indicative singular third-person)
faucherons (first-person future indicative plural)
faucherez (future indicative plural second-person)
faucheront (future indicative plural third-person)
faucherais (conditional first-person singular)
faucherais (conditional second-person singular)
faucherait (conditional singular third-person)
faucherions (conditional first-person plural)
faucheriez (conditional plural second-person)
faucheraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
fauche (first-person present singular subjunctive)
fauches (present second-person singular subjunctive)
fauche (present singular subjunctive third-person)
fauchions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
fauchiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
fauchent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
fauchasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
fauchasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
fauchât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
fauchassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
fauchassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
fauchassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
fauche (imperative second-person singular)
fauchons (first-person imperative plural)
fauchez (imperative plural second-person)

From Old French from Vulgar Latin *falcāre or *falciāre (compare Italian falciare), from Latin falcem (“sickle, scythe”) (compare faucille), from Proto-Indo-European *dhalk-, *dhalg- (“a cutting tool”).


Sitz im Leben

(theology) Sitz im Leben, sociological setting


faute

Inherited from Old French faute, from Vulgar Latin *fallita, feminine of *fallitus, in place of Latin falsus, perfect passive participle of fallō. Compare Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese falta. Doublet of faillite. Compare English fault and Spanish falta (“lack, shortage”).

(sports) foul, fault (infraction of the rules)


kicker

kicker (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
kickant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
kické (participle past)
kicke (first-person indicative present singular)
kickes (indicative present second-person singular)
kicke (indicative present singular third-person)
kickons (first-person indicative plural present)
kickez (indicative plural present second-person)
kickent (indicative plural present third-person)
kickais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
kickais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
kickait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
kickions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
kickiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
kickaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
kickai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
kickas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
kicka (historic indicative past singular third-person)
kickâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
kickâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
kickèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
kickerai (first-person future indicative singular)
kickeras (future indicative second-person singular)
kickera (future indicative singular third-person)
kickerons (first-person future indicative plural)
kickerez (future indicative plural second-person)
kickeront (future indicative plural third-person)
kickerais (conditional first-person singular)
kickerais (conditional second-person singular)
kickerait (conditional singular third-person)
kickerions (conditional first-person plural)
kickeriez (conditional plural second-person)
kickeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
kicke (first-person present singular subjunctive)
kickes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
kicke (present singular subjunctive third-person)
kickions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
kickiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
kickent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
kickasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
kickasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
kickât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
kickassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
kickassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
kickassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
kicke (imperative second-person singular)
kickons (first-person imperative plural)
kickez (imperative plural second-person)

Borrowing from English kick (“to eject from an internet forum”)

bor

(Internet) to kick; to eject (e.g. from a forum)


percussion

→ Turkish: perküsyon


devise

→ Turkish: döviz

From Old French devise (“division, separation; heraldic band, emblem”), from deviser. The financial sense is a semantic loan from German Devise.

inh

Le colonialisme français n’a pas varié sa devise: «Diviser pour régner.» C’est ainsi que l’empire d’Annam ce pays habité par un peuple descendant de la même race, ayant les mêmes moeurs, la même histoire, les mêmes traditions et parlant la même langue – fut divisé en cinq parties.

1925, Nguyễn Ái Quốc, “XII - Le réveil des esclaves”, in Le procès de la colonisation française; English translation from “XII - Awakening of Slaves”, in French Colonization on Trial (Selected works of Hồ Chí Minh; 1), 1st edition, Paris: Foreign Languages Press, 2021, page 337:

French colonialism hasn’t altered its motto: “Divide and rule.” That is why the empire of Annam — that country inhabited by a people descended from the same race, having the same customs, the same history, the same traditions and speaking the same language — was divided into five parts.


charlotte

→ Catalan: carlota

→ English: charlotte

→ German: Charlotte

→ Italian: charlotte

→ Polish: szarlotka

→ Russian: шарло́тка (šarlótka)

→ Spanish: carlota

→ Ukrainian: шарло́тка (šarlótka)

From the female forename Charlotte, or from Old French char laitée (“meat with milk”): char (“meat”) + laitée (“milk”).


Bisounours

Blend of bisou (“kiss”) + nounours (“teddy bear”).


bisou

(in the plural, in letters) lots of love


quintuple

une quintuple croche

hundred twenty-eighth note
hundred twenty-eighth note


Ibrahim

Borrowed from Arabic إِبْرَاهِيم (ʔibrāhīm).


FDIC

(Morocco, politics) Abbreviation of Front pour la défense des institutions constitutionnelles.


touche

→ Dutch: toets, touche

→ Hungarian: tus

→ Turkish: tuş


multiplier

multiplier (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
multipliant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
multiplié (participle past)
multiplie (first-person indicative present singular)
multiplies (indicative present second-person singular)
multiplie (indicative present singular third-person)
multiplions (first-person indicative plural present)
multipliez (indicative plural present second-person)
multiplient (indicative plural present third-person)
multipliais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
multipliais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
multipliait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
multipliions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
multipliiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
multipliaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
multipliai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
multiplias (historic indicative past second-person singular)
multiplia (historic indicative past singular third-person)
multipliâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
multipliâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
multiplièrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
multiplierai (first-person future indicative singular)
multiplieras (future indicative second-person singular)
multipliera (future indicative singular third-person)
multiplierons (first-person future indicative plural)
multiplierez (future indicative plural second-person)
multiplieront (future indicative plural third-person)
multiplierais (conditional first-person singular)
multiplierais (conditional second-person singular)
multiplierait (conditional singular third-person)
multiplierions (conditional first-person plural)
multiplieriez (conditional plural second-person)
multiplieraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
multiplie (first-person present singular subjunctive)
multiplies (present second-person singular subjunctive)
multiplie (present singular subjunctive third-person)
multipliions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
multipliiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
multiplient (plural present subjunctive third-person)
multipliasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
multipliasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
multipliât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
multipliassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
multipliassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
multipliassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
multiplie (imperative second-person singular)
multiplions (first-person imperative plural)
multipliez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Middle French multiplier, learned remodelling of Old French molteplier, moltepleier (also monteplier), from Latin multiplicāre. By surface analysis, multi- + plier.


cosmopolite

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


AMC

auto-mitrailleuse de combat
auto-mitrailleuse de combat#French

(military) Initialism of auto-mitrailleuse de combat = combat machine-gun carrier or armored car


FC

Forces canadiennes
w:fr:Forces canadiennes

(Canada, military) Initialism of Forces canadiennes.; CF (Canadian Forces)


PV

(gaming) Abbreviation of point de vie (“health”).


produit

Past participle of produire, or borrowed from Latin productus and adapted to French conjugation.


ménage à trois

fr-noun

ménage à trois m (plural ménages à trois)

English: menage a trois

German: Ménage-à-trois

Portuguese: ménage à trois

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-ménage à trois.wav

Near-synonyms: triangle amoureux, trouple


autostoppeur

autostoppeur m (plural autostoppeurs, feminine autostoppeuse)

autostoppeurs (plural)
autostoppeuse (feminine)


TVA

taxe sur la valeur ajoutée
taxe sur la valeur ajoutée#French

(taxation) Initialism of taxe sur la valeur ajoutée: VAT (value-added tax)

(Canada, television) Initialism of Téléviseurs / Télédiffuseurs associés (“Associated Telecasters”).


ACC

(Senegal, politics) Abbreviation of Alliance pour la conscience citoyenne.


ACC

aminocyclopropane carboxylique
aminocyclopropane carboxylique#French

(organic chemistry) Abbreviation of aminocyclopropane carboxylique (“acide 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylique”).


BIPM

(physics, standardisation) Initialism of Bureau international des poids et mesures.

fr:Bureau international des poids et mesures


CGPM

(physics, standardisation) Initialism of Conférence générale des poids et mesures.

fr:Conférence générale des poids et mesures


BST

w:fr:Bureau de la sécurité des transports

(Canada, transport) Initialism of Bureau de la sécurité des transports (“Transportation Safety Board”).: TSB


marché

Inherited from Old French marchié, marchiet, from Latin mercātus. Doublet of mercato.

passer un marché avec quelqu’un


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)


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)

Cet idiot avait oublié de reporter un 3!

(mathematics and finance) to carry over or forward


klingon

fr-adj

klingon (feminine klingonne, masculine plural klingons, feminine plural klingonnes)

klingonne (feminine)
klingons (masculine plural)
klingonnes (feminine plural)


héros

fr-noun

héros m (plural héros, feminine héroïne)

14th century, borrowed from Latin hērōs, from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs). The aspiration is secondary and originated in the desire to avoid les héros sounding like les zéros. The related words remain unaspirated.

le héros de notre temps

mourir en héros


heure

q

via <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">l’heure</i>

Haitian Creole: lè (via l’heure)

Moore: lɛɛre (via l’heure)

Inherited from Old French houre, from Latin hōra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “time, season, year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁- (“year, season”).

der

C’est l’heure de partir.


allophone

Coordinate term: phonème

(phonetics, phonology) allophone (any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a phoneme)


mariage

Mauritian Creole: maryaz

Seychellois Creole: maryaz

→ Japanese: マリアージュ (mariāju)

→ Korean: 마리아주 (mariaju)

→ Polish: mariaż

→ Romanian: mariaj

demande en mariage

La distinction que font en droit certains pays entre le mariage et le partenariat domestique engendre des prestations et des droits différents.

The distinction that the law of some countries made between marriage and domestic partnership has given rise to different benefits and rights.


bouquet garni

fr-noun

bouquet garni m (plural bouquets garnis)


Guillaume

Japanese: ギヨーム (Giyōmu)

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French Guillaume, Willame, from Frankish *Willahelm (“William”, literally “will-helmet”), from Proto-Germanic *Wiljahelmaz. Cognate with Old High German Willahelm (“William”).

der

a male given name, equivalent to English William, whose diminutive is Guy


toucher

Inherited from Middle French toucher, from Old French tochier, from Vulgar Latin *toccāre, *tuccāre (“to strike; to touch”), probably of Germanic origin, or onomatopoetic.


toucher

toucher (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
touchant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
touché (participle past)
touche (first-person indicative present singular)
touches (indicative present second-person singular)
touche (indicative present singular third-person)
touchons (first-person indicative plural present)
touchez (indicative plural present second-person)
touchent (indicative plural present third-person)
touchais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
touchais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
touchait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
touchions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
touchiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
touchaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
touchai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
touchas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
toucha (historic indicative past singular third-person)
touchâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
touchâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
touchèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
toucherai (first-person future indicative singular)
toucheras (future indicative second-person singular)
touchera (future indicative singular third-person)
toucherons (first-person future indicative plural)
toucherez (future indicative plural second-person)
toucheront (future indicative plural third-person)
toucherais (conditional first-person singular)
toucherais (conditional second-person singular)
toucherait (conditional singular third-person)
toucherions (conditional first-person plural)
toucheriez (conditional plural second-person)
toucheraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
touche (first-person present singular subjunctive)
touches (present second-person singular subjunctive)
touche (present singular subjunctive third-person)
touchions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
touchiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
touchent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
touchasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
touchasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
touchât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
touchassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
touchassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
touchassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
touche (imperative second-person singular)
touchons (first-person imperative plural)
touchez (imperative plural second-person)

→ Dutch: toucheren

→ German: touchieren

Ne me touche pas !

La maladie touche actuellement 2 millions de personnes.

The disease currently affects 2 million people.

(transitive) to receive, to get; to earn (money)

Je n’ai jamais touché au tabac.

(intransitive) to try, to try out [with à ‘something’]

Ce mec est un ancien critique d’art. Je peux te dire qu’il touche en peinture!

This guy is a former art critic. Believe me, he knows a thing or two about painting!

(intransitive, informal) to know a thing or two [with en ‘about something’]


désormais

Inherited from Middle French desormais. By surface analysis, dès + or + mais.

Si dans le passé l’idéologie soviétique opposait l’U.R.S.S. aux nations capitalistes, Staline substitue désormais les solidarités anti-hitlériennes aux solidarités de classe.

1983, Renata Fritsch-Bournazel, André Brigot, Jim Cloos, Les Allemands au cœur de l’Europe:

If past Soviet ideology opposed the USSR to the capitalist nations, from now on, Stalin substitutes class solidarity with solidarity in opposition to Hitler.


dorénavant

Univerbation of Old French d'ore en avant (“from now to the future”); cognate with Portuguese doravante.

der

from this day forward
from this day forward

henceforth, from now on, from this day forward


dissident

fr-noun

dissident m (plural dissidents, feminine dissidente)

dissidents (plural)
dissidente (feminine)


ABS

Borrowed from German ABS, initialism of German Antiblockiersystem.

système de freinage antiblocage
système de freinage antiblocage#French

(automotive) Initialism of système de freinage antiblocage.


EP

(motor racing) Abbreviation of électrique prix; ePrix.; from grand prix électrique


AMD

(military) Initialism of auto-mitrailleuse de découverte: reconnaissance machine-gun carrier or armored car


ACE

(medicine) Acronym of antigène carcino-embryonnaire (“carcinoembryonic antigen”): CEA


CPR

Comité Paralympique Russe
Comité Paralympique Russe#French

(sports) RPC (“Russian Paralympic Committee”): Initialism of Comité Paralympique Russe.


CPA

comptable professionnel agréé
comptable professionnel agréé#French

chartered professional accountant
chartered professional accountant

(Canada, accounting) CPA; Initialism of comptable professionnel agréé (“chartered professional accountant”).


flamer

flamer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
flamant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
flamé (participle past)
flame (first-person indicative present singular)
flames (indicative present second-person singular)
flame (indicative present singular third-person)
flamons (first-person indicative plural present)
flamez (indicative plural present second-person)
flament (indicative plural present third-person)
flamais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
flamais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
flamait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
flamions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
flamiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
flamaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
flamai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
flamas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
flama (historic indicative past singular third-person)
flamâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
flamâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
flamèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
flamerai (first-person future indicative singular)
flameras (future indicative second-person singular)
flamera (future indicative singular third-person)
flamerons (first-person future indicative plural)
flamerez (future indicative plural second-person)
flameront (future indicative plural third-person)
flamerais (conditional first-person singular)
flamerais (conditional second-person singular)
flamerait (conditional singular third-person)
flamerions (conditional first-person plural)
flameriez (conditional plural second-person)
flameraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
flame (first-person present singular subjunctive)
flames (present second-person singular subjunctive)
flame (present singular subjunctive third-person)
flamions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
flamiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
flament (plural present subjunctive third-person)
flamasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
flamasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
flamât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
flamassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
flamassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
flamassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
flame (imperative second-person singular)
flamons (first-person imperative plural)
flamez (imperative plural second-person)

(Internet) to flame (post disruptive messages)


manganèse

desctree

→ English: manganese, manganesium, manganesum (obsolete)
→ Welsh: manganîs

From Italian manganese, alteration of Medieval Latin magnēsia.


jumping

(sports and physical fitness) a form of movement in which a body propels itself through the air


caca

Pipi, caca, popo : histoire anecdotique de la scatologie.

(childish) poo (childish word for excrement)


TD

(colloquial, education) (Initialism of travaux dirigés.; tutorials


STA

(initialism) Initialism of sous-titres anglais (“English subtitles (EST)”).


sinus

Learned borrowing from Latin sinus. Doublet of sein.


DEA

Initialism of diplôme d’études approfondies (a tertiary education degree higher than a master's, but lower than a doctorate)


MTBE

Nos voitures émettent du CO₂, mais également, c’est moins connu, des molécules de MTBE (métyl tert-butyl éther). Le MTBE a remplacé le plomb comme additif dans l’essence.

2011, Nathalie Chèvre, Suren Erkman, Alerte aux micropolluants, Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, →ISBN, page 32:

méthyl tert-butyl éther
méthyl tert-butyl éther#French

(organic chemistry) Initialism of méthyl tert-butyl éther; MTBE


CAS

(Canada, meteorology) Initialism of cote air santé (“air quality health index”): AQHI


talon

→ Portuguese: talão

From Old French talon (“heel, spur”). Cognate with Italian tallone.

heel (of footwear) (especially high heel)

first point in tables games such as ticktack and jacquet


tampon

English: tampon

Persian: تامپون (tâmpon)

German: Tampon

Dutch: tampon

Italian: tampone

Japanese: タンポン (tanpon)

Korean: 탐폰 (tampon)

Portuguese: tampão

Russian: тампо́н (tampón)

Spanish: tampón

Nasalized variant of tapon, from Frankish *tappō, from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“plug, tap”), cognate with Dutch tappe, German Zapfen, Old English tæppa, English tap.

Tampons spéciaux montés sur plaques aluminium pour saxophone alto à tampons vissés.

plug, stopper
(music) pad (for a flute, saxophone)

plug, stopper
pad (for a flute, saxophone)

tampon d’étoupe

plug, stopper
(nautical) (for closing a leak)

Il monta chercher dans sa chambre, au premier étage, un petit tampon d’ouate; puis, comme le sang était sec et collait à la porcelaine, il humecta légèrement le coton avant de frotter.

1932, Jules Romains, Hommes de bonne volonté:

He went up to his room on the first floor to look for a small ball of cotton wool; then, since the blood was dry and stuck to the porcelain, he moistened the cotton slightly before rubbing.

solution tampon


Patricia

Borrowed from Latin Patricia, feminine of Patricius.

a female given name, equivalent to English Patricia


chorale

(singing) chorus (group of people in a play or performance who recite together), a choir


anisette

→ English: anisette

→ German: Anisette

→ Italian: anisetta

→ Portuguese: anisete, aniseta

→ Romanian: aniset

→ Spanish: anisete


nippon

fr-adj

nippon (feminine nipponne or nippone, masculine plural nippons, feminine plural nipponnes or nippones)

nipponne (feminine)
nippone (feminine)
nippons (masculine plural)
nipponnes (feminine plural)
nippones (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Japanese 日本 (Nippon, “Japan”, noun).

bor+

Si Rinri avait interrogé de façon négative, ce qui est courant dans ce pays compliqué, j’étais cuite. Je tentai de me rappeler les règles grammaticales nippones de réponse aux questions négatives, ce qui est aussi complexe que de retenir les pas du tango.

2007, Amélie Nothomb, Ni d’Ève ni d’Adam [Neither Eve nor Adam] (non-fiction), Éditions Albin Michel:

If Rinri was asking in a negative way, which is commonplace in this complicated country, then I was being tricked. I tried to remember the Nipponese grammatical rules on responding to negative questions, which was as hard as keeping up with tango steps.

Synonym of japonais (“Japanese”); Nipponese


dico

Clipping of dictionnaire (“dictionary”) + -o (familiarizing suffix) [second half of 20th century].

J’adore ce dico!


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.

a battalion responsible for guarding, defending a sovereign, a prince, more generally, of an elite corps.

(military) sentry service performed by soldiers.

(military) soldiers doing the sentry service


anticoagulant

fr-adj

anticoagulant (feminine anticoagulante, masculine plural anticoagulants, feminine plural anticoagulantes)

anticoagulante (feminine)
anticoagulants (masculine plural)
anticoagulantes (feminine plural)

(medicine) anticoagulant, anticoagulating (that prevents coagulation, that stops blood from clotting)


anticoagulant

(medicine) anticoagulant (substance that prevents coagulation, that stops blood from clotting)


fellation

2022, Emmanuel Todd, Où en sont-elles? Une esquisse de l’histoire des femmes, Éditions du Seuil, p.193

American sociology comes to us from a world where young people, even before the invention of the Pill, had the right to get laid in the back seats of cars. They only did it, however, in haste and with an immoderate call for fellatio.

La sociologie américaine nous vient d’un monde où les jeunes, avant même l’invention de la pilule, avaient le droit de s’envoyer en l’air sur les banquettes arrière des voitures. Ils ne le faisaient cependant qu’en vitesse et avec un appel immodéré à la fellation.


midi

From a compound of Old French mi (“middle”) + di (“day”).

Mais, après tout, les propos auxquels on mêlait son nom n’étaient peut-être que des propos; du bruit, des mots, des paroles; moins que des paroles, des palabres, comme dit l’énergique langue du midi.

1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 1, in Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine, book 1:

(specifically) southern France, the Midi


page d'accueil

fr-noun

page d’accueil f (plural pages d’accueil)

page d’ accueil (canonical feminine)
pages d’accueil (plural)


ballerine

ballerine f (plural ballerines, masculine ballerin)

ballerines (plural)
ballerin (masculine)


jeter

jeter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
jetant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
jeté (participle past)
jette (first-person indicative present singular)
jettes (indicative present second-person singular)
jette (indicative present singular third-person)
jetons (first-person indicative plural present)
jetez (indicative plural present second-person)
jettent (indicative plural present third-person)
jetais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
jetais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
jetait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
jetions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
jetiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
jetaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
jetai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
jetas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
jeta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
jetâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
jetâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
jetèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
jetterai (first-person future indicative singular)
jetterai (first-person future indicative singular)
jetteras (future indicative second-person singular)
jetteras (future indicative second-person singular)
jettera (future indicative singular third-person)
jettera (future indicative singular third-person)
jetterons (first-person future indicative plural)
jetterons (first-person future indicative plural)
jetterez (future indicative plural second-person)
jetterez (future indicative plural second-person)
jetteront (future indicative plural third-person)
jetteront (future indicative plural third-person)
jetterais (conditional first-person singular)
jetterais (conditional first-person singular)
jetterais (conditional second-person singular)
jetterais (conditional second-person singular)
jetterait (conditional singular third-person)
jetterait (conditional singular third-person)
jetterions (conditional first-person plural)
jetterions (conditional first-person plural)
jetteriez (conditional plural second-person)
jetteriez (conditional plural second-person)
jetteraient (conditional plural third-person)
jetteraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
jette (first-person present singular subjunctive)
jettes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
jette (present singular subjunctive third-person)
jetions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
jetiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
jettent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
jetasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
jetasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
jetât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
jetassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
jetassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
jetassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
jette (imperative second-person singular)
jetons (first-person imperative plural)
jetez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Old French jeter, from Late Latin iectāre, from Latin iactāre.


VOA

(initialism, film) Initialism of version originale anglais — original English version (OEV); an English-language film


STM

Société de transport de Montréal
w:Société de transport de Montréal

(transport) Initialism of Société de transport de Montréal.; the MTC; the transit corporation for the island and megacity of Montreal; in 2002 it replaced the STCUM


grenade

LL-Q150 (fra)-Mathieu Denel WMFr-grenade.wav

Substantive use of Old French grenate in pomme grenate (“pomegranate”), from dialectal northern Italian pom granat, from Medieval Latin pomum granatum (“seeded fruit”), from Latin grānātum. The -d- developed under influence from Spanish granada.

der

(heraldry) pomegranate (Grenade de guerre is used in French to describe a grenade in English heraldry)


malware

(computing) malware (software developed to harm a computer system)


sphincter

Borrowed from Late Latin sphinctēr (“the muscle of the anus”), from Ancient Greek σφῐγκτήρ (sphĭnktḗr, “lace, band; contractile muscle”).


phonème

desctree

→ Dutch: foneem, phoneem (dated)
→ Indonesian: fonem

→ German: Phonem

Greek: φώνημα n (fónima, “phoneme”)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma).

lbor

Coordinate term: phone

ce phonème, qui fleurit aussi bien dans l’extrême Orient que dans notre Basse-Normandie, tient le milieu entre notre a grave et l’o grave moyen des mots fort! encore! etc.

this sound, as abundant in the Far East as in our own Lower Normandy occupies the ground between our à sound and the middle o of words like fort! and encore!

Tout phonème suppose un réseau d’oppositions avec les autres phonèmes du même système. La thèse saussurienne précise: «Les phonèmes sont avant tout des entités oppositives, relative et négatives.»

Every phoneme assumes a network of contrasts with other phonemes in the same system. In de Saussure's words: "Phonemes are defined above all by opposition, relativity, by what they are not."

(phonetics, phonology) phoneme (indivisible unit of sound in a given language)


épaule

Inherited from Middle French espaule, from Old French espalle, from Vulgar Latin *spatla, from Late Latin spathula (“flat, broad piece”), diminutive of Latin spatha (“straight sword”) (whence French épée (“sword”)). Doublet of spatule, which was a borrowing.


moulin

Inherited from Middle French moulin, from Old French molin, from Late Latin molīnum, from the adjective molīnus, from Latin molō.


Indien

fr-noun

Indien m (plural Indiens, feminine Indienne)


bidet

→ Greek: μπιντές (bintés)

→ Polish: bidet

→ Portuguese: bidê, bidé (Portugal)

→ Persian: بیده (bide)

→ English: bidet (see there for further descendants)

From Middle French bider (“to trot”), of unknown ultimate origin, + -et. Possibly related to Medieval Italian bidetto (“small horse”), itself probably related to Proto-West Germanic *biti (“bite; horse's bit”); or, possibly from a lost Middle French rabider (“go quickly, violently”), a descendant of Latin rabidus (“furious, fierce”), with loss of the initial prefix.
Modern sense derives from analogy with the straddling of a bidet and the straddling of a small horse.

unk

unknown


MAO

monoamine oxydase
monoamine oxydase#French

(biochemistry) initialism of monoamine oxydase; monoamine oxidase


TGV

→ Portuguese: TGV

train à grande vitesse
train à grande vitesse#French

(rail transport) Initialism of train à grande vitesse.


sauver

sauver (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
sauvant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
sauvé (participle past)
sauve (first-person indicative present singular)
sauves (indicative present second-person singular)
sauve (indicative present singular third-person)
sauvons (first-person indicative plural present)
sauvez (indicative plural present second-person)
sauvent (indicative plural present third-person)
sauvais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
sauvais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
sauvait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
sauvions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
sauviez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
sauvaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
sauvai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
sauvas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
sauva (historic indicative past singular third-person)
sauvâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
sauvâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
sauvèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
sauverai (first-person future indicative singular)
sauveras (future indicative second-person singular)
sauvera (future indicative singular third-person)
sauverons (first-person future indicative plural)
sauverez (future indicative plural second-person)
sauveront (future indicative plural third-person)
sauverais (conditional first-person singular)
sauverais (conditional second-person singular)
sauverait (conditional singular third-person)
sauverions (conditional first-person plural)
sauveriez (conditional plural second-person)
sauveraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
sauve (first-person present singular subjunctive)
sauves (present second-person singular subjunctive)
sauve (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sauvions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
sauviez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
sauvent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sauvasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
sauvasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
sauvât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
sauvassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
sauvassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
sauvassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
sauve (imperative second-person singular)
sauvons (first-person imperative plural)
sauvez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Middle French saulver, from Old French sauver, salver, from Gallo-Romance salvar, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”), from Latin salvus.
In the sense specific to North America, a semantic loan from English save.


stipule

Learned borrowing from Latin stipula. Doublet of éteule.


merlon

→ English: merlon

From Italian merlone (“merlon”), from merlo (“merlon”) + -one (suffix forming augmentatives). Merlo is derived from Late Latin merulus, merlus, possibly from Latin merula (“blackbird”) (as merlons resemble a row of birds perched on a wall), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ems- (“black; blackbird”).


embrasure

→ Polish: ambrazura

desctree

→ Russian: амбразура (ambrazura)
→ Georgian: ამბრაზურა (ambrazura)


burette

→ Portuguese: bureta

(religion) cruet used to keep wine and water for Eucharist


Tr.

(music) Abbreviation of trompette (“trumpet”).


SSR

w:fr:Société suisse de radiodiffusion et télévision

(broadcasting) Acronym of Société suisse de radiodiffusion et télévision: SRG SSR


IPC

Borrowed from English IPC (“International Paralympic Committee”).

bor+

(sports, dated) Indicating a sport adapted for the disabled, typically prefixing the term.


inductance

→ Persian: اَندوکتانس (anduktâns)

→ Turkish: indüktans


blanquette

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

af

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

(countable or uncountable) blanquette (white meat stew which is not browned)


bigot

fr-adj

bigot (feminine bigote, masculine plural bigots, feminine plural bigotes)

bigote (feminine)
bigots (masculine plural)
bigotes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French bigot, from Old French bigot, a derogatory term applied to Normans, possibly due to their frequent use of the Old English oath bī god (“by God”). See also English bigot for a further possible etymology.


ababouiné

ababouiné (feminine ababouinée, masculine plural ababouinés, feminine plural ababouinées)

ababouinée (feminine)
ababouinés (masculine plural)
ababouinées (feminine plural)

(nautical, archaic, dialectal) Said of a boat stopped by water's stillness; becalmed


faire minette

(slang, vulgar) to eat pussy; to perform cunnilingus


nef

→ Breton: nev

→ English: nef

Inherited from Middle French nef, from Old French nef, from Latin nāvem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Displaced by bateau and navire in the sense of "boat".


mort de rire

mort de rire (feminine morte de rire, masculine plural morts de rire, feminine plural mortes de rire)

morte de rire (feminine)
morts de rire (masculine plural)
mortes de rire (feminine plural)

/mɔʁ də ʁiʁ/

Tout le monde était mort de rire après cette blague.

Everyone was dying laughing after that joke.


diastole

→ Dutch: diastole

Borrowed from Ancient Greek διαστολή (diastolḗ, “separation, drawing asunder”).


anticyclone

Borrowed from English anticyclone, etymologically analyzable as anti- + cyclone.

(meteorology) a high pressure zone, an anticyclone


en passant

→ Czech: en passant

→ Danish: en passant

→ English: en passant

→ German: en passant


ballet

desctree

→ Dutch: ballet
→ Indonesian: balèt
→ Papiamentu: balèt

→ English: ballet

→ Persian: باله (bâle)

desc

→ Portuguese: balé, balê, ballet (unadapted form)

→ Swedish: balett

→ Thai: บัลเลต์ (ban-lêe)

→ Turkish: bale

→ Vietnamese: ba lê


Tibétain

fr-noun

Tibétain m (plural Tibétains, feminine Tibétaine)


croquet

Borrowed from English croquet, from Norman croquet (“hook”), from Old Northern French croquet. Doublet of crochet.


footing

Pseudo-anglicism, from English foot (“foot, to walk”) + -ing.

2014, Erin McCahan, Cool, Sweet, Hot, Love, Nathan (publ.), page 8.
Je ne comprends pas ceux qui font du footing à deux.

I don't understand those who jog in pairs.

(France) exercise walking, jogging (as a form of exercise)


dendrite

From Ancient Greek δενδρίτης (dendrítēs, “relating to trees”), from δένδρον (déndron, “tree”).


spinal

fr-adj

spinal (feminine spinale, masculine plural spinaux, feminine plural spinales)

spinale (feminine)
spinaux (masculine plural)
spinales (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Late Latin spīnālis, from Latin spīna.


enne

The name of the Latin-script letter N/n.


contre

⇒ Italian: contrare

Inherited from Middle French contre, from Old French contre, from Latin contra.


foie gras

From foie (“liver”) + gras (“fat”).
Literally, “fat liver”.

foie gras (fattened liver of geese or ducks)


baigner

baigner (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
baignant (gerund participle present)
baignant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
baigné (participle past)
baigné (participle past)
baigne (first-person indicative present singular)
baignes (indicative present second-person singular)
baigne (indicative present singular third-person)
baignons (first-person indicative plural present)
baignons (first-person indicative plural present)
baignez (indicative plural present second-person)
baignez (indicative plural present second-person)
baignent (indicative plural present third-person)
baignais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
baignais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
baignais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
baignais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
baignait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
baignait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
baignions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
baignions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
baigniez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
baigniez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
baignaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
baignaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
baignai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
baignai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
baignas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
baignas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
baigna (historic indicative past singular third-person)
baigna (historic indicative past singular third-person)
baignâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
baignâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
baignâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
baignâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
baignèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
baignèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
baignerai (first-person future indicative singular)
baignerai (first-person future indicative singular)
baigneras (future indicative second-person singular)
baigneras (future indicative second-person singular)
baignera (future indicative singular third-person)
baignera (future indicative singular third-person)
baignerons (first-person future indicative plural)
baignerons (first-person future indicative plural)
baignerez (future indicative plural second-person)
baignerez (future indicative plural second-person)
baigneront (future indicative plural third-person)
baigneront (future indicative plural third-person)
baignerais (conditional first-person singular)
baignerais (conditional first-person singular)
baignerais (conditional second-person singular)
baignerais (conditional second-person singular)
baignerait (conditional singular third-person)
baignerait (conditional singular third-person)
baignerions (conditional first-person plural)
baignerions (conditional first-person plural)
baigneriez (conditional plural second-person)
baigneriez (conditional plural second-person)
baigneraient (conditional plural third-person)
baigneraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
baigne (first-person present singular subjunctive)
baignes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
baigne (present singular subjunctive third-person)
baignions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
baignions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
baigniez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
baigniez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
baignent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
baignasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
baignasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
baignasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
baignasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
baignât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
baignât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
baignassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
baignassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
baignassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
baignassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
baignassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
baignassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
baigne (imperative second-person singular)
baignons (first-person imperative plural)
baignons (first-person imperative plural)
baignez (imperative plural second-person)
baignez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Old French baignier, from Vulgar Latin *baneare, Late Latin balneāre, from Latin balneum, and probably later influenced by the related French bain. Compare Occitan banhar, Catalan banyar, Italian bagnare, Spanish bañar, Portuguese banhar.


provocateur

provocateur (feminine provocatrice, masculine plural provocateurs, feminine plural provocatrices)

provocatrice (feminine)
provocateurs (masculine plural)
provocatrices (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Latin provocātōrem. See provoquer, -ateur.


gujarati

Gujarati; language spoken in the state of Gujarat, India


griffon

Inherited from Old French grifon (grif + -on), from Latin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).

inh+

(mythology) griffin (legendary creature)


automne

Louisiana Creole: otònn, lotònn

→ Franco-Provençal: ôton

From Old French automne, a borrowing from Latin autumnus. The inherited equivalent was après août (literally “after August”).


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.


sommeil

Inherited from Old French sumeil, from Vulgar Latin *somniclum < *somniculum, from Latin somnus (“sleep”) + -culus (diminutive suffix), from Proto-Italic *swepnos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos.


pince-nez

→ Catalan: pinçanàs (calque)

→ Russian: пенсне́ n (pensnɛ́)

→ Swedish: pincené c


mêlée

→ Catalan: melé

→ English: melee

→ Italian: mêlée

→ Portuguese: melê

→ Spanish: melé

Inherited from Old French meslee, older meslede, from the feminine past participle of early Medieval Latin misculō, derived from Latin misceō. By surface analysis, mêl- + -ée.


hiver

Louisiana Creole: livè, ivèr, livær

Inherited from Middle French hyver, from Old French hyveir, yver, iver, from Latin hībernum (tempus) (a borrowing, according to the Trésor de la Langue Française, and first documented in 1282), whence also Italian inverno and Spanish invierno. Closely related to Catalan hivern. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey-m-r-ino-, from *ǵʰey-.


sociable

Learned borrowing from Latin sociābilis.


LV

English: LV

Coordinate term: LVMH

(fashion) Abbreviation of Louis Vuitton.


Thanksgiving

fr:Action de grâce (Canada)
fr:Thanksgiving
fr:Thanksgiving (États-Unis)


verso

Borrowed from Latin versō, ablative of versus.


triton

Learned borrowing from Latin Trītōn, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek Τρίτων (Trítōn).

triton rugueux


triton

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin tritonus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek τρίτονος (trítonos). By surface analysis, tri- + ton.


voler

voler (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
volant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
volé (participle past)
vole (first-person indicative present singular)
voles (indicative present second-person singular)
vole (indicative present singular third-person)
volons (first-person indicative plural present)
volez (indicative plural present second-person)
volent (indicative plural present third-person)
volais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
volais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
volait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
volions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
voliez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
volaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
volai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
volas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
vola (historic indicative past singular third-person)
volâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
volâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
volèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
volerai (first-person future indicative singular)
voleras (future indicative second-person singular)
volera (future indicative singular third-person)
volerons (first-person future indicative plural)
volerez (future indicative plural second-person)
voleront (future indicative plural third-person)
volerais (conditional first-person singular)
volerais (conditional second-person singular)
volerait (conditional singular third-person)
volerions (conditional first-person plural)
voleriez (conditional plural second-person)
voleraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
vole (first-person present singular subjunctive)
voles (present second-person singular subjunctive)
vole (present singular subjunctive third-person)
volions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
voliez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
volent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
volasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
volasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
volât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
volassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
volassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
volassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
vole (imperative second-person singular)
volons (first-person imperative plural)
volez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Old French voler, from Latin volāre. Displaced Old French rober (Modern French rober has changed in meaning to "to wrap a cigar in a sheet of tobacco").

ne pas voler haut

voler en éclats

voler de ses propres ailes

donner c’est donner, reprendre c’est voler

maquillé comme une voiture volée

voler la vedette

qui vole un œuf vole un bœuf

Qui a volé mon pantalon ?


striker

striker (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
strikant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
striké (participle past)
strike (first-person indicative present singular)
strikes (indicative present second-person singular)
strike (indicative present singular third-person)
strikons (first-person indicative plural present)
strikez (indicative plural present second-person)
strikent (indicative plural present third-person)
strikais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
strikais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
strikait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
strikions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
strikiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
strikaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
strikai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
strikas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
strika (historic indicative past singular third-person)
strikâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
strikâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
strikèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
strikerai (first-person future indicative singular)
strikeras (future indicative second-person singular)
strikera (future indicative singular third-person)
strikerons (first-person future indicative plural)
strikerez (future indicative plural second-person)
strikeront (future indicative plural third-person)
strikerais (conditional first-person singular)
strikerais (conditional second-person singular)
strikerait (conditional singular third-person)
strikerions (conditional first-person plural)
strikeriez (conditional plural second-person)
strikeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
strike (first-person present singular subjunctive)
strikes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
strike (present singular subjunctive third-person)
strikions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
strikiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
strikent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
strikasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
strikasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
strikât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
strikassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
strikassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
strikassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
strike (imperative second-person singular)
strikons (first-person imperative plural)
strikez (imperative plural second-person)


CPM

première ministre
première ministre#French

(government, Westministerian Parliament) PMO (Prime Minister's Office); Initialism of cabinet de la première ministre f.

premier ministre
premier ministre#French

(government, Westministerian Parliament) PMO (Prime Minister's Office); Initialism of cabinet du premier ministre m.


iel

head

iel gender-neutral (third-person singular, plural iels, accusative lea or lae, dative lui, emphatic ellui, possessive determiner son)

iel gender-neutral (canonical)
iels (plural)
lea (accusative)
lae (accusative)
lui (dative)
ellui (emphatic)
son (determiner possessive)

[…]; les jours où iels n’avaient pas l’occasion de parler un peu, juste tous les deux, iel se sentait vide.

2014, Carina Rozenfeld, La Symphonie des abysses, Robert Laffont, book 1:

[…]; on days when they didn't have the opportunity to talk a little, just the two of them, they felt empty.

Ainsi démarra la journée d’Emil. Iel suivait bien évidement les conseils de sa mère, continuant à affirmer qu’iel était un garçon, ce qui jusque là n’avait jamais été démenti.

2016 March 4, Olivia B. Smith, Witch Hunt, Partie 1 : Le Legacy d’Olivia:

That's how Emil's day started. They naturally followed the advice of their mother and continued to say that they were a boy, which had never been contested until that point.

Pour les Ferreux.
Pour Ferenusia, découvert en même temps qu’Antoinette, quand iel avait débarqué à Paris un an auparavant.
Pour iel-mêmes [sic], aussi.

2017, Cindy Van Wilder, chapter 19, in Les Outrepasseurs, volume 4 Férénusia, Gulf stream éditeur:

For the Ferrous.
For Ferenusia, discovered at the same time as Antoinette, when they had arrived in Paris a year earlier.
For themselves, too.

Tout architecte se doit d’être complètement responsable des conditions et conséquences politiques des projets qu’iel accepte; toute position qui ferait de lui ou d’elle un.e simple exécutant·e constituerait une insulte à sa fonction et à sa capacité d’agir.

2019 December 20, “Casbah d’Alger : lettre ouverte à Jean Nouvel”, in L’Humanité:

Every architect must be completely responsible for the conditions and political consequences of the projects that they accept; any position which would make him or her a simple executor would constitute an insult to their function and to their ability to act.

(gender-neutral, neologism) they (singular). A gender-neutral singular third-person subject personal pronoun.

3 Also used when a group has both men and women

4 Also used as third person plural reflexive


crosser

crosser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
crossant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
crossé (participle past)
crosse (first-person indicative present singular)
crosses (indicative present second-person singular)
crosse (indicative present singular third-person)
crossons (first-person indicative plural present)
crossez (indicative plural present second-person)
crossent (indicative plural present third-person)
crossais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
crossais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
crossait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
crossions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
crossiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
crossaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
crossai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
crossas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
crossa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
crossâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
crossâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
crossèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
crosserai (first-person future indicative singular)
crosseras (future indicative second-person singular)
crossera (future indicative singular third-person)
crosserons (first-person future indicative plural)
crosserez (future indicative plural second-person)
crosseront (future indicative plural third-person)
crosserais (conditional first-person singular)
crosserais (conditional second-person singular)
crosserait (conditional singular third-person)
crosserions (conditional first-person plural)
crosseriez (conditional plural second-person)
crosseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
crosse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
crosses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
crosse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
crossions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
crossiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
crossent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
crossasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
crossasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
crossât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
crossassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
crossassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
crossassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
crosse (imperative second-person singular)
crossons (first-person imperative plural)
crossez (imperative plural second-person)

(sports) to hit with a crosse (“hockey stick, lacrosse stick, or golf club”)


zodiacal

fr-adj

zodiacal (feminine zodiacale, masculine plural zodiacaux, feminine plural zodiacales)

zodiacale (feminine)
zodiacaux (masculine plural)
zodiacales (feminine plural)


école

Haitian Creole: lekòl

→ Bambara: ekɔli, lakɔli

→ Moore: lekolle

Turkish: ekol

Inherited from Middle French eschole, from Old French escole, an early borrowing or semi-learned word taken from Latin schola, from Ancient Greek σχολή (skholḗ).


microphone

→ Romanian: microfon

→ Turkish: mikrofon


Talmud

Borrowed from Hebrew תַּלְמוּד (talmúd, “instruction, learning”).


millénaire

Et peu à peu le visage de la mort apparaît, dans toute sa splendeur. Le troisième millénaire s’annonce bien.

1994, Michel Houellebecq, Extension du domaine de la lutte [Extension of the Field of Struggle]:

And little by little the face of death appears, in all its splendour. The third millennium is looking good.


planer

planer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
planant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
plané (participle past)
plane (first-person indicative present singular)
planes (indicative present second-person singular)
plane (indicative present singular third-person)
planons (first-person indicative plural present)
planez (indicative plural present second-person)
planent (indicative plural present third-person)
planais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
planais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
planait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
planions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
planiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
planaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
planai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
planas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
plana (historic indicative past singular third-person)
planâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
planâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
planèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
planerai (first-person future indicative singular)
planeras (future indicative second-person singular)
planera (future indicative singular third-person)
planerons (first-person future indicative plural)
planerez (future indicative plural second-person)
planeront (future indicative plural third-person)
planerais (conditional first-person singular)
planerais (conditional second-person singular)
planerait (conditional singular third-person)
planerions (conditional first-person plural)
planeriez (conditional plural second-person)
planeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
plane (first-person present singular subjunctive)
planes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
plane (present singular subjunctive third-person)
planions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
planiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
planent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
planasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
planasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
planât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
planassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
planassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
planassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
plane (imperative second-person singular)
planons (first-person imperative plural)
planez (imperative plural second-person)

en planant

(slang) to be going well; to run smoothly


juge

Inherited from Old French juge, from Latin iūdicem, jūdicem, accusative singular of iūdex.


bonnet

→ Portuguese: boné

→ Spanish: bonete

→ Turkish: bone

Inherited from Middle French bonet, from Old French bonet (“material from which hats are made”), from Frankish *bunni (“that which is bound”), from Proto-Germanic *bundiją (“bundle”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie”).
Compare also Late Latin abbonis, obbonis (“ribbon of a headdress”), also of Germanic origin, from Frankish *obbunni, from *ob- (“above, over”) + *bunni. Cognates: see above, English bonnet. More at over, bundle.


amie

Inherited from Middle French amye, from Old French amie (“lover”), from Latin amīca.


allodial

fr-adj

allodial (feminine allodiale, masculine plural allodiaux, feminine plural allodiales)

allodiale (feminine)
allodiaux (masculine plural)
allodiales (feminine plural)


roller

Il a eu sa première paire de rollers à l’âge de 8 ans.

He got his first pair of rollerblades at the age of eight.


imperturbable

Learned borrowing from Late Latin imperturbābilis.


menton

→ English: menton

→ Esperanto: mentono
Ido: mentono

→ Spanish: mentón

Inherited from Old French menton, mentun, from Vulgar Latin *mentō (accusative *mentōnem), from Classical Latin mentum. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to project”). Compare Occitan menton, Catalan mentó, Romansch mintun.

der

On put remarquer qu’il avait des petits yeux en amande, et qu’un pli vertical faisait de son menton un derrière de bébé.

One could note that he had little almond eyes, and that a vertical line made his chin the bottom of a baby.

Il avait des yeux noirs perçants qui souriaient volontiers, l’air droit et intelligent, un grand front, des pommettes saillantes – mais pas de menton, ce qui eût dû rassurer les puissants, s’il est vrai que le menton proéminent est le signe des fermes volontés.

1934, Jean Guéhenno, Journal d’un homme de 40 ans, Grasset:

He had piercing black eyes that smiled easily, a proper and intelligent look, a large forehead, prominent cheekbones—but no chin, which must have reassured the powerful men, if it is true that a prominent chin is a sign of a firm will.


peau

Inherited from Middle French peau, from Old French pel, from Latin pellem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, hide; cloth”).

il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l’ours avant de l’avoir tué

skin formed on top of certain prepared foods


MSF

(medicine) Initialism of Médecins Sans Frontières. (Doctors Without Borders)


délicieux

fr-adj

délicieux (feminine délicieuse, masculine plural délicieux, feminine plural délicieuses)

délicieuse (feminine)
délicieux (masculine plural)
délicieuses (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Late Latin deliciōsus. Cognate with English delicious, Italian delizioso, Romanian delicios, Spanish delicioso.


tactique

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τακτικός (taktikós).


effet

→ Vietnamese: ép phê

From Old French effect, from Latin effectus.


incision

First known attestation 1314 in the French translation of Chirurgie by Henri de Mondeville. Learned borrowing from Latin incisiōnem.


honorable

Inherited from Old French [Term?], borrowed from Latin honōrābilis.


sanatorium

From Latin sānātus, past participle of sānō (“to cure, to heal”).


quadriceps

Borrowed from Latin quadriceps, from quadri- + -ceps.


froid

Mauritian Creole: frwa

Inherited from Old French froit, freid, inherited from Latin frīgidus (“cold”) (through a syncopated Vulgar Latin or Late Latin form frigdus, fricdus, attested in the Appendix Probi, or fridus, on a Pompeian inscription). Doublet of frigide, a later borrowing.