Porthos

From one of the Three Musketeers, Porthos, Athos, and, Aramis. From the fiction "Les Trois Mousquetaires" (1844) by Alexander Dumas.


scrabbler

scrabbler (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
scrabblant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
scrabblé (participle past)
scrabble (first-person indicative present singular)
scrabbles (indicative present second-person singular)
scrabble (indicative present singular third-person)
scrabblons (first-person indicative plural present)
scrabblez (indicative plural present second-person)
scrabblent (indicative plural present third-person)
scrabblais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
scrabblais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
scrabblait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
scrabblions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
scrabbliez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
scrabblaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
scrabblai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
scrabblas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
scrabbla (historic indicative past singular third-person)
scrabblâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
scrabblâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
scrabblèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
scrabblerai (first-person future indicative singular)
scrabbleras (future indicative second-person singular)
scrabblera (future indicative singular third-person)
scrabblerons (first-person future indicative plural)
scrabblerez (future indicative plural second-person)
scrabbleront (future indicative plural third-person)
scrabblerais (conditional first-person singular)
scrabblerais (conditional second-person singular)
scrabblerait (conditional singular third-person)
scrabblerions (conditional first-person plural)
scrabbleriez (conditional plural second-person)
scrabbleraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
scrabble (first-person present singular subjunctive)
scrabbles (present second-person singular subjunctive)
scrabble (present singular subjunctive third-person)
scrabblions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
scrabbliez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
scrabblent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
scrabblasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
scrabblasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
scrabblât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
scrabblassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
scrabblassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
scrabblassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
scrabble (imperative second-person singular)
scrabblons (first-person imperative plural)
scrabblez (imperative plural second-person)

(intransitive, Scrabble) to play a move that uses all seven tiles


corvée

→ Dutch: corvee

→ English: corvee

→ Italian: corvè

Inherited from Late Latin conrogāta [opera], from the feminine past participle of Latin conrogō.

(military) fatigue; menial task [from 1835]


machine à laver

fr-noun

machine à laver f (plural machines à laver)


fleuriste

fleuriste m or f by sense (plural fleuristes)


corbeille

→ English: corbeille

Inherited from Middle French corbeille, from Old French corbeille, corbeil, corbele, curbeyle, from Late Latin corbicula, diminutive of Latin corbis (“basket”), probably from Frankish *korb, from Proto-Germanic *kurbaz, *krebô (“basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“bundle”).


forme fruste

(medicine) forme fruste, unfinished form


réciproque

Learned borrowing from Latin reciprocus.


réciproque

La réciproque de A#92;RightarrowB est B#92;RightarrowA.
The converse of A⇒B is B⇒A.


joual

Pronunciation spelling of the joual pronunciation of cheval (“horse”) (/ʃəval/ → /ʒwal/).


étymologie

→ Turkish: etimoloji

Borrowed from Latin etymologia, from Ancient Greek ἐτυμολογία (etumología).


perso

2001, Laurent Trémel, Jeux de rôles, jeux vidéo, multimédia. Les faiseurs de mondes, Presses universitaires de France (publ.), page 158.
Mon voisin craignait de perdre son “perso” (personnage) – “Huls” – un pisteur qu’il chouchoutait depuis quatre ans.

My neighbor feared losing his character - "Huls" - a tracker he had pampered for four years.


rade

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


SDF

2006, Liberation, Paris (story headline, July 22)

In Paris, homeless requested to leave the picture

A Paris, les SDF priés de sortir de la photo

2006, Nouvel Obs (story headline, November 11)

Kirk Douglas celebrates Thanksgiving with the homeless

Kirk Douglas fête Thanksgiving avec les SDF

sans domicile fixe
sans domicile fixe#French

Initialism of sans domicile fixe: (someone) homeless, (someone) without a permanent home (official French government term)


réversion

From Old French reversion, from Latin reversiōnem.


singulier

fr-adj

singulier (feminine singulière, masculine plural singuliers, feminine plural singulières)

singulière (feminine)
singuliers (masculine plural)
singulières (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Latin singulāris. Doublet of sanglier.


grammaire

→ Turkish: gramer

From Middle French grammaire, from Old French grammère, itself from Latin grammatica.

La grammaire française est très complexe.

(uncountable) grammar (the study of the morphological and syntactic rules of a language)


entre chien et loup

LL-Q150 (fra)-Tsaag Valren-entre chien et loup.wav

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-entre chien et loup.wav

Calque of Latin inter canem et lupum (“between a dog and a wolf”), because at that time in the day, one can't see the difference. Traditional sentiment, dating to antiquity (found in 2nd century CE texts), in French from the 18th century.

cal

(photography) golden hour (used in same technical sense for “good photographic light at twilight”)


ciseau

Inherited from Old French cisel, chisel, from Vulgar Latin *cisellum < *caesellum, from Latin caesus, from caedō. Compare Occitan cisèl, Catalan cisell, Italian cesello, Portuguese cinzel, Spanish cincel.


custode

Borrowed from Medieval Latin custōdia. Automotive sense ellipsis of vitre de custode f (literally “guard window”).

ellipsis

(Roman Catholicism) pyx (small container used to hold the host)

(Christianity, dated) Synonym of pavillon

(automotive) quarter glass (small triangular-shaped side window)


custode

Learned borrowing from Latin custōs (“guard”).

lbor

(religion) custodian (head of certain religious orders)


drap

→ English: drap

→ Russian: драп (drap)

From Late Latin drappum (“cloth”), first recorded in Frankish ordinances (The Capitularies of Charles the Great). More at drape.


Inès

a female given name from Spanish or Ancient Greek


idée fixe

→ English: idée fixe

→ English: fixed idea (calque)

→ Swedish: fix idé (calque)

→ Russian: идефикс (idefiks)

desc

→ Russian: идея фикс (ideja fiks) (partial calque)

→ Turkish: idefiks


gé

The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.


majorité

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin māiōritās. By surface analysis, majeur + -ité.

lbor

majorité sexuelle

age of consent (literally, “sexual adulthood”)


André

From Latin Andreās, from Ancient Greek Ἀνδρέας (Andréas).

a male given name, equivalent to English Andrew


Monika

a female given name, equivalent to English Monika


castillan

Inherited from Middle French Castelan, borrowed from Spanish castellano, from Latin castellanus. Doublet of châtelain, the native French word, and castellan.


après-ski

snowboot (a water-resistant type of footwear)


monocoque

First attested in 1911: formed as mono- (“one”) + coque (“shell, hull”).


Damien

a male given name, equivalent to English Damian


English: RU-486

Roussel+UCLAF+486, from Usines Chimiques des Laboratoires Français. From the codename RU-38486, the 38,486th compound synthesized by Roussel-Uclaf; then shortened to RU-486.

(pharmacology) RU-486: mifepristone: Synonym of mifépristone.


(pharmacology) RU-486: mifépristone: A drug formulation containing the active agent mifepristone


Monsieur

Alternative letter-case form of monsieur Used to show respect


chalumeau

→ English: chalumeau

desc

→ North Levantine Arabic: شلمونة (šalimōne)

→ Turkish: şalümo

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

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


tiret

→ Persian: خط تیره

→ Russian: тире́ (tiré)

→ Turkish: tire


conservateur

fr-noun

conservateur m (plural conservateurs, feminine conservatrice)

conservateurs (plural)
conservatrice (feminine)

→ Turkish: konservatör

Learned borrowing from Latin cōnservātor.


passant

fr-adj

passant (feminine passante, masculine plural passants, feminine plural passantes)

passante (feminine)
passants (masculine plural)
passantes (feminine plural)


sextuple

une sextuple croche

two hundred fifty-sixth note
two hundred fifty-sixth note


chronomètre

From chrono- + -mètre, from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”).


Poissons

the plural of poisson (“fish”), from Latin piscis (plural pisces, hence Pisces); the municipality (and hence the canton) may have an entirely different (Latin? Celtic?) origin, possibly aligned by popular etymology

(astronomy) the constellation Pisces 'the Fishes'

(astrology) the zodiac sign Pisces, after the above


moutarde

From Old French moustarde, from moust (“must”) (modern moût), from Latin mustum.


planchiste

fr-noun

planchiste m or f by sense (plural planchistes)


flûte

→ Italian: flute, flûte

→ Luxembourgish: Flütt

→ Walloon: flûte

→ Volapük: flut (possibly)

From Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut. The contraction of the Old French hiatus created a long vowel in Middle French, which is indicated by the modern circumflex.


parc fermé

English: parc fermé

(motor racing) parc fermé: a secure car park where competing cars must be left, for example during rest periods, and where no maintenance, repairs, or enhancements may be carried out

(motor racing) parc fermé: a race condition where modifications to race cars are disallowed or severely limited


sacrebleu

Expurgated form of sacre Dieu (“sacred God”).

(dated, euphemistic, minced oath) good heavens, oh my gosh


Alexis

From the Latin Alexius, a saint's name, from Ancient Greek Ἄλεξις (Álexis, “helper, defender”).


étage

→ Czech: etáž

→ Bulgarian: етаж (etaž)

→ Danish: etage

→ Dutch: etage

→ Esperanto: etaĝo

→ German: Etage

Norwegian:

→ Norwegian Bokmål: etasje

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: etasje

→ Romanian: etaj

→ Russian: этаж (etaž)

From Old French estage: ester + -age (see also stage), or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *stāticum, from Latin stāre.

Historiquement, les fossiles sont les principaux critères de définition des étages, mais cette méthode n’est pas applicable partout — et même lorsqu’elle l’est, elle est désormais souvent corrélée à d’autres indicateurs stratigraphiques : lits et bancs carbonatés ou phosphatés, susceptibilité magnétique, etc.

Historically, fossils were the principal criteria to define epochs, but this method isn't applicable for everything - and even when it is, it is from now on often correlated to other stratagraphic indicators: carbon and phosphorus beds, magnetic susceptibility, etc.

(geology) stage, division of a geological period

L’étage infralittoral est situé en dessous des basses mers de vive-eau.

The ocean bed close to the shore is under low seas at spring tide

Dans les massifs montagneux des régions tempérées, l’étage subalpin est compris entre 1700-1900 m à 2300-2500 m d’altitude.

In very mountainous temperate regions, the subalpine zone is included between 1700-1900 m to 2300-2500 m above sea level.

Un artificier allemand, Johann Schmidlap, inventa la fusée gigogne, un engin à multiples étages allumés séquentiellement et permettant de faire atteindre au feu d’artifice une plus grande altitude. C’est l’ancêtre des fusées à multiples étages utilisées aujourd’hui.

A German artificier, Johann Schmidlap, invented the nesting rocket, an engine with multiple stages lit sequentially, allowing for a firework at a greater altitude. It's the ancestor of the rockets with multiple stages used today.


dessous

From Latin dē (“from”) + subtus (“beneath”), corresponding to de (“from”) + sous (“beneath”) in French. Compare Italian di sotto, Romanian dedesubt.

Elle a osé montrer ses dessous en plein air.

She dared show her undies out in the open.


turc

fr-adj

turc (feminine turque, masculine plural turcs, feminine plural turques)

turque (feminine)
turcs (masculine plural)
turques (feminine plural)


souffler

souffler (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
soufflant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
soufflé (participle past)
souffle (first-person indicative present singular)
souffles (indicative present second-person singular)
souffle (indicative present singular third-person)
soufflons (first-person indicative plural present)
soufflez (indicative plural present second-person)
soufflent (indicative plural present third-person)
soufflais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
soufflais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
soufflait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
soufflions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
souffliez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
soufflaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
soufflai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
soufflas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
souffla (historic indicative past singular third-person)
soufflâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
soufflâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
soufflèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
soufflerai (first-person future indicative singular)
souffleras (future indicative second-person singular)
soufflera (future indicative singular third-person)
soufflerons (first-person future indicative plural)
soufflerez (future indicative plural second-person)
souffleront (future indicative plural third-person)
soufflerais (conditional first-person singular)
soufflerais (conditional second-person singular)
soufflerait (conditional singular third-person)
soufflerions (conditional first-person plural)
souffleriez (conditional plural second-person)
souffleraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
souffle (first-person present singular subjunctive)
souffles (present second-person singular subjunctive)
souffle (present singular subjunctive third-person)
soufflions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
souffliez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
soufflent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
soufflasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
soufflasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
soufflât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
soufflassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
soufflassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
soufflassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
souffle (imperative second-person singular)
soufflons (first-person imperative plural)
soufflez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Old French sofler, from Latin sufflāre.

Souffler des bougies.


gendarmerie

the military branch of the French police service


Quentin

a male given name from Latin; recently popular


Gustave

English: Gustave

a male given name, equivalent to English Gustave or Gustav


Adrienne

a female given name, masculine equivalent Adrien


paronyme

Borrowed from Late Latin paronymon. By surface analysis, para- + -onyme.


marteau

Inherited from Middle French marteau m, from a back-formation from Old French marteaus (ca. 1140), plural of martel, from Late Latin martellus, from martulus, variant form of marculus, diminutive of Latin marcus, or from malleus.

a hammer-shaped tool used to hit something, such as a gavel

(curling) the advantage of throwing the last stone


frein

→ Khmer: ហ្វ្រ័ង (frang)

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: فرن (fren), فرهن (fren)
Turkish: fren

→ Vietnamese: phanh

Inherited from Old French frein, from Latin frēnum n. Cognate with Portuguese freio and Spanish freno.
Cf. the borrowed freiner.

(chiefly obsolete) bit (equipment put in a horse's mouth)

frein de la langue

frein du prépuce


recette

Inherited from Old French recete (also reçoite, receite, recepte), from Latin recepta, derived from recipere (“to receive”). The Old French form is phonetically regular (cf. dete < Vulgar Latin *depta), but was probably not inherited, but borrowed from Latin.


paysage

→ Albanian: peizazh

→ English: paysage

→ Esperanto: pejzaĝo

→ Polish: pejzaż

→ Romanian: peisaj

→ Russian: пейза́ж (pejzáž)
→ Georgian: პეიზაჟი (ṗeizaži)
→ Kazakh: пейзаж (peizaj)

→ Serbo-Croatian: pejzaž

→ Turkish: peyzaj

From pays + -age. Cf. also Italian paesaggio, Catalan paisatge, Spanish paisaje, Portuguese paisagem, Romanian peisaj.


virion

From virus + Ancient Greek -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).


grand-père

Inherited from Middle French grand père, grant pere, grant père.


-èdre

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra, “seat, base”).

bor+

hexa- (“hexa-”) + -èdre → hexaèdre (“hexahedron”)


-èdre

hexa- (“hexa-”) + -èdre → hexaèdre (“hexahedral”)


avant-hier

From avant (“before”) + hier (“yesterday”). See also Italian avantieri.

day before yesterday
day before yesterday


Lilian

a male given name, the masculine equivalent of Liliane


accélération

fr-noun

accélération f (countable and uncountable, plural accélérations)

→ Romanian: accelerație

Learned borrowing from Latin accelerātiō. By surface analysis, accélérer + -ation.

lbor

Coordinate term: vitesse


cambriolage

Pour se prémunir des cambriolages, rien ne vaut l’alarme anti-intrusion, qui repère une présence humaine indésirable.

To guard against house robbery, nothing beats the burglar alarm, which identifies an unwanted human presence.


dogme

From Latin dogma (“philosophical tenet”), from Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma, “opinion, tenet”), from δοκέω (dokéō, “to seem good, think”).

der

dogma (an authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion)


tueur à gages

/tɥœ.ʁ‿a ɡaʒ/


en garde

(fencing) Ellipsis of position en garde.; the ready position, ready to attack or defend, in a face-off


en garde

En garde! Prêts? Allez!
En garde! Prêts? Allez!

(fencing) Part of the sequence En garde! Prêts? Allez!


leucocyte

Coordinate term: érythrocyte


Monseigneur

Alternative letter-case form of monseigneur


cardio-

From Ancient Greek καρδία (kardía, “heart”).


chanteur

fr-adj

chanteur (feminine chanteuse, masculine plural chanteurs, feminine plural chanteuses)

chanteuse (feminine)
chanteurs (masculine plural)
chanteuses (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French chanteor (oblique form), from Latin cantōrem, equivalent to French chanter + -eur; compare also chantre, derived from the Latin nominative. Alternatively, from a Latin cantator, cantatorem.


chanteur

fr-noun

chanteur m (plural chanteurs, feminine chanteuse)

→ Turkish: şantör


wallon

Borrowed from Walloon walon, from Frankish *walh, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner”).


tavernier

tavernier m (plural taverniers, feminine tavernière)

taverniers (plural)
tavernière (feminine)

Inherited from Old French tavernier, from Latin tabernārius. By surface analysis, taverne + -ier.


compteur

→ Khmer: កុងទ័រ (kongtɔə)

→ Lombard: contoeur

→ Malagasy: kaontera

→ Piedmontese: conteur

→ Turkish: kontör

→ Vietnamese: công tơ

From compter (“to count”) + -eur (“-er”). Doublet of conteur. Compare comptoir.

a measuring device that keeps a count: a meter, a counter

(by ellipsis) a speedometer, an electricity meter, or a gas meter

3 points de plus au compteur


Écossais

Écossais m (plural Écossais, feminine Écossaise)


camisole

→ English: camisole

Borrowed from Old Occitan camisola. Compare Portuguese camisola.

Les fenêtres étaient ouvertes. Les camisoles, raidies par le vent, qui y séchaient, se balançaient comme des enseignes de tôle.

The windows were open. The wind-stiffened camisoles which were drying there swung back and forth like sheet-metal shop signs.

(dated outside Quebec and Switzerland) camisole (short, sleeveless undergarment)


flageolet

From Old French flajol (“flute”) + diminutive -et; probably from Vulgar Latin *flabeolum (“flute”), from Latin flāre (“to blow”).


flageolet

Borrowed from Italian fagiolo (“bean”), from Latin phaseolus (“bean”), diminutive form of phasēlus, from Ancient Greek φάσηλος (phásēlos, “bean”).

der

A type of small light green kidney-shaped bean, common in France.


détention

Borrowed from Latin detentiōnem. Equivalent to détenir (“to hold, to possess”) + -tion.


covariance

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming


formant

Borrowed from German Formant, from Latin fōrmāns (“shaping; forming; fashioning”), present participle of fōrmō (“to shape; to form; to fashion”). Doublet of formans.

(physics, phonetics) formant (band of frequencies, in a sound spectrum, that have a greater intensity; they determine the quality of a sound; especially the characteristic sounds of the consonants)

(linguistic morphology) formative (language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function)


aéroplane

→ English: aeroplane

→ Esperanto: aeroplano

→ Galician: aeroplano

→ German: Aeroplan

→ Greek: αεροπλάνο (aeropláno)

→ Ido: aeroplano

→ Interlingua: aeroplano

→ Italian: aeroplano

→ New Latin: āeroplanum

→ Persian: آیروپلان (âyroplân)

→ Portuguese: aeroplano

→ Romanian: aeroplan

desctree

→ Spanish: aeroplano
→ Basque: aeroplano
→ Bikol Central: eroplano
→ Cebuano: ayroplano
→ Tagalog: eroplano
→ Waray-Waray: eroplano
→ Yogad: eroplano

Coined by French aviation pioneer and sculptor Joseph Pline in 1855, from Ancient Greek ἀερόπλανος (aeróplanos, “wandering in air”), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”) + πλάνος (plános, “wandering”).


spectre

Dans la nuit, il vit un spectre apparaître.


Québécois

fr-noun

Québécois m (plural Québécois, feminine Québécoise)

Québécois (plural)
Québécoise (feminine)

Selon le recensement de 2016 [deux-mille-seize], un peu plus de 6,3 [six virgule trois] millions Québécois ont le français comme langue maternelle, cela représentant 20,4 % [vingt virgule quatre pour cent] de la population canadienne et 79,1 % [soixante-dix-neuf virgule un pour cent] de celle de la province.

According to the census of 2016, a bit more than 6.3 million Quebeckers have French as [their — lit. the] mother tongue, this representing 20.4% of [the population of Canada — lit. the Canadian population] and 79.1% of [the province's — lit. that of the province].


Pierrot

→ Japanese: ピエロ (piero)

→ Korean: 피에로 (piero)

From Pierre (“Peter”) + -ot (diminutive suffix).

af

a diminutive of the male given name Pierre (Pierre, "Peter")

a character from French pantomime; a buffoon in a loose white outfit


-ure

Inherited from Old French -(ë)ure, from Latin -(ā)tūram, the accusative case of -(ā)tūra.

iode (“iodine”) + -ure → iodure (“iodide”)


frise

Via Middle French frise, derived in a textile sense from friser (“to curl”) or related to the demonym Frisian due to import via Northern ships, and in an architecture sense from an Upper Italian fris f, Medieval Latin frisum, frisium, frigium, frixum, of controversial origin, possibly from multiple sources, Arabic إِفْرِيز (ʔifrīz, “king beam, cornice”) and Latin opus phrygium (“a kind of embroidery”, literally “Phrygian work”), the demonym Frisian and terms related to the textile term in a transferred sense.


chargeur

fr-noun

chargeur m (plural chargeurs, feminine chargeuse)

→ Turkish: şarjör

→ Persian: شارژر (šâržer)

(nautical) loader, shipper, freighter, shipping agent


apparaître

apparaître (infinitive)
avoir (infinitive multiword-construction)
être + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
apparaissant (gerund participle present)
apparaissant (gerund participle present)
ayant (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
étant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
apparu (participle past)
apparais (first-person indicative present singular)
apparais (indicative present second-person singular)
apparaît (indicative present singular third-person)
apparaissons (first-person indicative plural present)
apparaissons (first-person indicative plural present)
apparaissez (indicative plural present second-person)
apparaissez (indicative plural present second-person)
apparaissent (indicative plural present third-person)
apparaissais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
apparaissais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
apparaissais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
apparaissais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
apparaissait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
apparaissait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
apparaissions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
apparaissions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
apparaissiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
apparaissiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
apparaissaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
apparaissaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
apparus (first-person historic indicative past singular)
apparus (historic indicative past second-person singular)
apparut (historic indicative past singular third-person)
apparûmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
apparûtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
apparurent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
apparaîtrai (first-person future indicative singular)
apparaîtrai (first-person future indicative singular)
apparaîtras (future indicative second-person singular)
apparaîtras (future indicative second-person singular)
apparaîtra (future indicative singular third-person)
apparaîtra (future indicative singular third-person)
apparaîtrons (first-person future indicative plural)
apparaîtrons (first-person future indicative plural)
apparaîtrez (future indicative plural second-person)
apparaîtrez (future indicative plural second-person)
apparaîtront (future indicative plural third-person)
apparaîtront (future indicative plural third-person)
apparaîtrais (conditional first-person singular)
apparaîtrais (conditional first-person singular)
apparaîtrais (conditional second-person singular)
apparaîtrais (conditional second-person singular)
apparaîtrait (conditional singular third-person)
apparaîtrait (conditional singular third-person)
apparaîtrions (conditional first-person plural)
apparaîtrions (conditional first-person plural)
apparaîtriez (conditional plural second-person)
apparaîtriez (conditional plural second-person)
apparaîtraient (conditional plural third-person)
apparaîtraient (conditional plural third-person)
present indicative of avoir (indicative multiword-construction perfect present)
être + past participle (indicative multiword-construction perfect present)
imperfect indicative of avoir (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect)
être + past participle (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect)
past historic of avoir (anterior indicative multiword-construction past)
être + past participle (anterior indicative multiword-construction past)
future of avoir (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
être + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
être + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
apparaisse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
apparaisses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
apparaisse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
apparaissions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
apparaissions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
apparaissiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
apparaissiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
apparaissent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
apparusse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
apparusses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
apparût (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
apparussions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
apparussiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
apparussent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
present subjunctive of avoir (multiword-construction past subjunctive)
être + past participle (multiword-construction past subjunctive)
imperfect subjunctive of avoir (multiword-construction pluperfect subjunctive)
être + past participle (multiword-construction pluperfect subjunctive)
apparais (imperative second-person singular)
apparaissons (first-person imperative plural)
apparaissons (first-person imperative plural)
apparaissez (imperative plural second-person)
apparaissez (imperative plural second-person)
simple imperative of avoir (imperative multiword-construction second-person singular)
être + past participle (imperative multiword-construction second-person singular)
simple imperative of avoir (first-person imperative multiword-construction plural)
être + past participle (first-person imperative multiword-construction plural)
simple imperative of avoir (imperative multiword-construction plural second-person)
être + past participle (imperative multiword-construction plural second-person)

Inherited from Middle French apparoistre, from Old French aparoistre, from Late Latin appārēscere (“begin to appear”), from Latin appareō.


gomme

→ Vietnamese: gôm

Borrowed from Late Latin gumma, from Latin cummi, gummi, from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”), qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”).

(automotive) tire rubber, tyre compound, vulcanized rubber


gratin

→ English: gratin

→ Japanese: グラタン

→ Persian: گراتَن (gerâtan)

→ Russian: грате́н (gratén)

→ Swedish: gratäng

→ Turkish: graten


phonologie

→ Turkish: fonoloji


réfection

Borrowed from Latin refectiōnem (“recovery, refection”), from reficiō (“restore, renew”).

bor+

(linguistics) refashioning, restoration, on the basis of its etymology, of a word which has undergone phonetic erosion through regular sound laws; the word resulting from that process


rondeau

From Old French rondel, diminutive of ront.


adnominal

fr-adj

adnominal (feminine adnominale, masculine plural adnominaux, feminine plural adnominales)

adnominale (feminine)
adnominaux (masculine plural)
adnominales (feminine plural)


sixte

→ English: sixte

Inherited from Middle French sixte, from Old French siste, sixte, modification of sexte (“sixth”) (a borrowing from Latin sextus) after sis (“six”).


sixte

(law) Sixth part of a tithe which belongs to a lord


initiale

* (Meaning 1 from the noun) From French lettre initiale.
* (Meaning 2 from the noun) From French consonne initiale.

(linguistics) initial, onset (first consonantal phoneme in a syllable. Often used in the study of Chinese languages)


doublé

→ Turkish: duble


glissade

→ English: glissade

→ Portuguese: glissada


compréhension

Borrowed from Latin comprehēnsiōnem, from comprehendere (“to grasp”), from the prefix com- + prehendere (“to seize”).


impur

impur (feminine impure, masculine plural impurs, feminine plural impures)

impure (feminine)
impurs (masculine plural)
impures (feminine plural)


égorger

égorger (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
égorgeant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
égorgé (participle past)
égorge (first-person indicative present singular)
égorges (indicative present second-person singular)
égorge (indicative present singular third-person)
égorgeons (first-person indicative plural present)
égorgez (indicative plural present second-person)
égorgent (indicative plural present third-person)
égorgeais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
égorgeais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
égorgeait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
égorgions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
égorgiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
égorgeaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
égorgeai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
égorgeas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
égorgea (historic indicative past singular third-person)
égorgeâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
égorgeâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
égorgèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
égorgerai (first-person future indicative singular)
égorgeras (future indicative second-person singular)
égorgera (future indicative singular third-person)
égorgerons (first-person future indicative plural)
égorgerez (future indicative plural second-person)
égorgeront (future indicative plural third-person)
égorgerais (conditional first-person singular)
égorgerais (conditional second-person singular)
égorgerait (conditional singular third-person)
égorgerions (conditional first-person plural)
égorgeriez (conditional plural second-person)
égorgeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
égorge (first-person present singular subjunctive)
égorges (present second-person singular subjunctive)
égorge (present singular subjunctive third-person)
égorgions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
égorgiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
égorgent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
égorgeasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
égorgeasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
égorgeât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
égorgeassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
égorgeassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
égorgeassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
égorge (imperative second-person singular)
égorgeons (first-person imperative plural)
égorgez (imperative plural second-person)

(transitive) to slit the throat of; to rip out the throat of


sillon

Inherited from Old French seillon, from seille + -on, seiller.

le sillon lorrain


substantif

substantif (feminine substantive, masculine plural substantifs, feminine plural substantives)

substantive (feminine)
substantifs (masculine plural)
substantives (feminine plural)

From Late Latin substantīvum, neuter singular of substantīvus (“substantive”), from substantia (“substance, essence”).


fanon

Inherited from Middle French fanon, fannon, from Old French fanon, fanum, from Early Medieval Latin fanō (attested in the Reichenau Glossary), borrowed from Frankish *fano (“cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *fanô. Cognate with English fane and vane.


toilette

→ Bulgarian: тоале́т (toalét)

→ Dutch: toilet

desctree

→ German: Toilette
→ Estonian: tualett
→ Hungarian: toalett

→ Greek: τουαλέτα (toualéta)

→ Italian: toilette

→ Ottoman Turkish: توالت
Turkish: tuvalet

→ Persian: توالت (tovâlet)

→ Polish: toaleta

→ Portuguese: toalete

→ Romanian: toaletă


fête champêtre

fr-noun

fête champêtre f (plural fêtes champêtres)

Literally, “pastoral festival”, “country feast.”

a garden party (pastoral festival) that was a popular form of entertainment in the 18th century, particularly popular at the French court, at Versailles. In theory it is a simple pastoral festival but in practice it was often contrived and elaborate with orchestras and fancy dress


macrophyte

From macro- (“large”) + -phyte (“plant”).


charité

Inherited from Old French charité, carité, borrowing from or francization of Latin cāritātem (“love, regard”), from cārus (“dear”) (whence French cher), from Proto-Italic *kāros (“dear”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂-. Doublet of cherté.

c’est l’hôpital qui se fout de la charité

c’est l’hôpital qui se moque de la charité

charité bien ordonnée commence par soi-même


fromagerie

English: fromagerie


hospice

Inherited from Old French hospise, borrowed from Latin hospitium.


Anubis

(Egyptian mythology) Anubis (Egyptian god of burial)


hypermarché

→ English: hypermarket (calque)

Cherry Jones as Nan Pierce (2023), 42:37 from the start, in Succession, season 4, episode 1: “I got a taste for hypermarché vin ordinaire when I was 19 years old and I have never been able to shake it.”


supermarché

Calque of English supermarket; by surface analysis super- + marché.


marchand

marchand m (plural marchands, feminine marchande)

Inherited from Old French marchedant, from Vulgar Latin *mercatantem, from the verb *mercatare, from Latin mercatus (“market”).


tyrolienne

→ Spanish: tirolina


laitier

laitier m (plural laitiers, feminine laitière)

From lait + -ier, possibly corresponding to Latin lactārius. Cf. also laiteron, and lactaire.


mardi gras

mardi gras m (countable and uncountable, plural mardi gras)

/mɔʁd͡zi ɡʁɔ/

/mɑʁd͡zi ɡʁɑ/

1582 Lambert Daneau, Traité contre les Bacchanales ou Mardi-gras, title listed in Jean Baptiste Louis Osmont, Dictionnaire typographique, historique et critique des livres rares ... et recherchés: Tome 1-2, Chez Lacombe, libraire, Quai de Conti (1768), p. 221.

Elle a été empoisonnée comme une danseuse de Mardi Gras, emmenée à la Préfecture, immatriculée, soumise à l’autorisation et aux inspections de salubrité.

1997, Albert Cassagne, Daniel Oster, quoting E. and J. de Goncourt, La théorie de l'art pour l'art, Editions Champ Vallon, →ISBN, page 110:

She was poisoned as a Mardi Gras dancer, brought to the Prefecture, registered, subject to authorization and health inspections.

Les Gilles, richement costumé, défilant le jour du mardi gras dans les rues de la ville.

2000, (France), Émile Biémont, Rythmes du temps: astronomie et calendriers, De Boeck Université, →ISBN, page 109:

The Gilles, richly costumed, marching on the day of the Mardi Gras in the city streets.

(usually uncountable) Mardi Gras: the last day of a carnival, traditionally the celebration immediately before the start of Lent when joy could be out of place for Christians


à la grecque

desc

→ Norwegian Bokmål: à la grecque, a la grecque

Literally, “in a Greek style or manner”.

(cooking) cooked in olive oil and served cold


galette

→ Catalan: galeta

→ English: galette

→ Italian: galletta

→ Spanish: galleta (see there for further descendants)

Feminine form of galet (“pebble; disk-shaped object”).


crêperie

a restaurant specialising in making crêpes


maroquinerie

From maroquin (“a type of leather”) + -erie.

leathermaking, specifically the production of maroquin


bijouterie

→ Catalan: bijuteria

→ Polish: biżuteria

→ Portuguese: bijuteria

→ Romanian: bijuterie

→ Spanish: bisutería

From bijou (“piece of jewelry”) + -erie, with intrusive -t-.


bonne journée

have a nice day (a phrase uttered upon a farewell)


emme

The name of the Latin-script letter M/m.


apiculteur

fr-noun

apiculteur m (plural apiculteurs, feminine apicultrice)

apiculteurs (plural)
apicultrice (feminine)


Javier

a male given name from Spanish [in turn from Basque], variant of Xavier, equivalent to English Xavier


affettuoso

Borrowed from Italian affettuoso. Doublet of affectueux.


chocolat blanc

chocolat blanc m (plural chocolats blancs)


chocolat au lait

chocolat au lait m (plural chocolats au lait)

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From chocolat (“chocolate”) + au + lait (“milk”).


chocolat noir

chocolat noir m (plural chocolats noirs)


pain au chocolat

pain au chocolat m (plural pains au chocolat)

pain au chocolat
pain au chocolat#English

pain au chocolat (French pastry filled with chocolate)


chocolat chaud

chocolat chaud m (plural chocolats chauds)


karaté

Borrowed from Japanese 空(から)手(て) (karate), from 唐(から)手(て) (karate), from Okinawan 唐手(とぅーでぃー) (tūdī).

ryu-r

唐手(とぅーでぃー) (tūdī)


Lavallois

fr-noun

Lavallois m (plural Lavallois, feminine Lavalloise)

Lavallois (plural)
Lavalloise (feminine)

resident or native of Laval (“Laval”)
Lavaller


colombe

Inherited from Old French colombe, from Latin columna via dissimilation. Doublet of colonne.


huiptante

Inherited from Old French uitante, from Latin octāgintā, variant of octōgintā (compare dialectal French huitante). The -p- is from contamination with septante (“seventy”).

(Acadia) Alternative form of huitante (“eighty”)


laiton

Borrowed from Arabic لَاطُون (lāṭūn, “copper, copper alloy”), itself from Common Turkic *altun (“gold”). See Turkish altın, Old Turkic 𐰞𐱃𐰆𐰣 (altun, “gold”), Karakhanid اَلْتُونْ (altūn, “gold”).


motocyclette

desc

→ Greek: μοτοσυκλέτα f (motosykléta, “motorcycle”)

→ Portuguese: motocicleta f (“motorcycle”)

→ Russian: мотоцикле́т m (motociklét, “motorcycle”)

→ Spanish: motocicleta f (“motorcycle”)

→ Persian: موتورسیکلت (motorsiklet, “motorcycle”)

→ Uyghur: موتسىكلىت (motsiklit, “motorcycle”)

From the Motorcyclette produced in 1897 by the French Werner Frères et Cie; see English motor + cycle for more.


prime time

fr-noun

prime time m (countable and uncountable, plural prime times)


chef-lieu

Haitian Creole: chèflye

a city, town, or village that serves as the administrative centre of an area, in various French-speaking countries


télécharger

télécharger (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
téléchargeant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
téléchargé (participle past)
télécharge (first-person indicative present singular)
télécharges (indicative present second-person singular)
télécharge (indicative present singular third-person)
téléchargeons (first-person indicative plural present)
téléchargez (indicative plural present second-person)
téléchargent (indicative plural present third-person)
téléchargeais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
téléchargeais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
téléchargeait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
téléchargions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
téléchargiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
téléchargeaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
téléchargeai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
téléchargeas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
téléchargea (historic indicative past singular third-person)
téléchargeâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
téléchargeâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
téléchargèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
téléchargerai (first-person future indicative singular)
téléchargeras (future indicative second-person singular)
téléchargera (future indicative singular third-person)
téléchargerons (first-person future indicative plural)
téléchargerez (future indicative plural second-person)
téléchargeront (future indicative plural third-person)
téléchargerais (conditional first-person singular)
téléchargerais (conditional second-person singular)
téléchargerait (conditional singular third-person)
téléchargerions (conditional first-person plural)
téléchargeriez (conditional plural second-person)
téléchargeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
télécharge (first-person present singular subjunctive)
télécharges (present second-person singular subjunctive)
télécharge (present singular subjunctive third-person)
téléchargions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
téléchargiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
téléchargent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
téléchargeasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
téléchargeasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
téléchargeât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
téléchargeassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
téléchargeassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
téléchargeassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
télécharge (imperative second-person singular)
téléchargeons (first-person imperative plural)
téléchargez (imperative plural second-person)

(transitive; computing) to download (to transfer data from an outside source to one's own disk or data storage)

(transitive; computing) to upload (to transfer data to from one's own source to a second location)


crosse

→ Portuguese: crossa

Inherited from Middle French crosse, from Old French crosse (“shepherd's staff”), from a Germanic language, likely Frankish *krukkju, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *krukjō (“staff, crutch”).
Compare Old High German krucka, Old Saxon krukka, Middle Dutch crucke, English crutch.

der

(France, sports) hockey stick, lacrosse stick, or golf club


coquet

fr-adj

coquet (feminine coquette, masculine plural coquets, feminine plural coquettes)

coquette (feminine)
coquets (masculine plural)
coquettes (feminine plural)

→ Afrikaans: koket

→ Catalan: coquet

→ Dutch: koket

→ German: kokett

desc

→ Thai: โก้เก๋

→ Thai: โก้เก๋


sceptique

fr-noun

sceptique m or f by sense (plural sceptiques)

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


sceptique

→ Polish: sceptyk

→ Portuguese: cético

→? Romanian: sceptic

→ Turkish: septik

sceptical (British), skeptical (American)


enivrer

enivrer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
enivrant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
enivré (participle past)
enivre (first-person indicative present singular)
enivres (indicative present second-person singular)
enivre (indicative present singular third-person)
enivrons (first-person indicative plural present)
enivrez (indicative plural present second-person)
enivrent (indicative plural present third-person)
enivrais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
enivrais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
enivrait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
enivrions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
enivriez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
enivraient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
enivrai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
enivras (historic indicative past second-person singular)
enivra (historic indicative past singular third-person)
enivrâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
enivrâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
enivrèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
enivrerai (first-person future indicative singular)
enivreras (future indicative second-person singular)
enivrera (future indicative singular third-person)
enivrerons (first-person future indicative plural)
enivrerez (future indicative plural second-person)
enivreront (future indicative plural third-person)
enivrerais (conditional first-person singular)
enivrerais (conditional second-person singular)
enivrerait (conditional singular third-person)
enivrerions (conditional first-person plural)
enivreriez (conditional plural second-person)
enivreraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
enivre (first-person present singular subjunctive)
enivres (present second-person singular subjunctive)
enivre (present singular subjunctive third-person)
enivrions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
enivriez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
enivrent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
enivrasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
enivrasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
enivrât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
enivrassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
enivrassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
enivrassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
enivre (imperative second-person singular)
enivrons (first-person imperative plural)
enivrez (imperative plural second-person)
s'enivrer (infinitive)
s'être + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
s’enivrant (gerund participle present)
ayant (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
étant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
enivré (participle past)
m’enivre (first-person indicative present singular)
t’enivres (indicative present second-person singular)
s’enivre (indicative present singular third-person)
nous enivrons (first-person indicative plural present)
vous enivrez (indicative plural present second-person)
s’enivrent (indicative plural present third-person)
m’enivrais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
t’enivrais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
s’enivrait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
nous enivrions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
vous enivriez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
s’enivraient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
m’enivrai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
t’enivras (historic indicative past second-person singular)
s’enivra (historic indicative past singular third-person)
nous enivrâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
vous enivrâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
s’enivrèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
m’enivrerai (first-person future indicative singular)
t’enivreras (future indicative second-person singular)
s’enivrera (future indicative singular third-person)
nous enivrerons (first-person future indicative plural)
vous enivrerez (future indicative plural second-person)
s’enivreront (future indicative plural third-person)
m’enivrerais (conditional first-person singular)
t’enivrerais (conditional second-person singular)
s’enivrerait (conditional singular third-person)
nous enivrerions (conditional first-person plural)
vous enivreriez (conditional plural second-person)
s’enivreraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of s'être + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of s'être + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
m’enivre (first-person present singular subjunctive)
t’enivres (present second-person singular subjunctive)
s’enivre (present singular subjunctive third-person)
nous enivrions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
vous enivriez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
s’enivrent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
m’enivrasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
t’enivrasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
s’enivrât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
nous enivrassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
vous enivrassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
s’enivrassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
enivre-toi (imperative second-person singular)
enivrons-nous (first-person imperative plural)
enivrez-vous (imperative plural second-person)

Il est l’heure de s’enivrer ! Pour n’être pas les esclaves martyrisés du Temps, enivrez-vous ; enivrez-vous sans cesse ! De vin, de poésie ou de vertu, à votre guise.

1869, Charles Baudelaire, “Enivrez-vous”, in Petits Poèmes en prose:

It is time to get drunk! In order not to be the tormented slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk constantly! On wine, on poetry or on virtue, as you wish.

(reflexive, + de) to get drunk; to become intoxicated


cervelle

Inherited from Middle French cervelle, from Old French cervele, from Latin cerebella, the plural of cerebellum (whence French cerveau) reinterpreted as a feminine singular.

cervelle de veau au beurre


chaînon

(geology) secondary range (of mountains)


jais

From Latin gagātem (“jet”), from Ancient Greek Γαγάτης (Gagátēs, “lignite, jet”, literally “stone of Gagas”).


dictame

Borrowed from Latin dictamnum, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek δίκταμνον (díktamnon).


astre

Borrowed from Latin astrum, from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron).

(astronomy) celestial body, astronomical object


angoisse

Inherited from Old French angoisse, from Latin angustia.


blafard

fr-adj

blafard (feminine blafarde, masculine plural blafards, feminine plural blafardes)

blafarde (feminine)
blafards (masculine plural)
blafardes (feminine plural)

From Middle High German bleichvar (“pale-coloured”), from bleich (“pale”) + var (“colour”) (compare German Farbe).

der

À travers les vitres, de chaque côté, on distinguait un soleil terne, blafard, semé de grandes taches noires, un peu plus lumineux en son centre.

1947, Boris Vian, L'écume des jours, Kindle edition:


tringle

An alteration (with intrusive r) of Middle French tingle, from Middle Dutch tengel.


jupon

→ Japanese: ズボン (zubon)

→ Polish: żupan

→ Romanian: jupon

Inherited from Middle French jupon. By surface analysis, jupe + -on.

(military) a sleeveless jacket worn over armor (medieval)


arc long anglais

fr-noun

arc long anglais m (plural arcs longs anglais)


basse

Borrowed from Italian basso; homophony with Etymology 1 led to reinterpretation as a feminine, specifically as an ellipsis of la voix basse (“the low voice”).

(music) bass (a singer of the bass melodies)


tortillon

headpad (a turban of wound cloth used for carrying loads on the head)


tortillon

a cake in the form of a torus, first boiled and then baked; a specialty of southwest France


morue

Haitian Creole: lanmori

→ Lingala: molí

From Old French morlue, derived from Latin morua (“cod”).


renne

→ Corsican: renna

→ Italian: renna

→ Portuguese: rena

→ Romanian: ren m

→ Turkish: Ren geyiği


asparagine

→ English: asparagine


balançoire

seesaw (a long board attached to a fulcrum)


gamme

→ Persian: گام (gâm)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin gamma. Doublet of gamma.

faire ses gammes

to play one's scales, to do one's scales

En musique, une gamme est un ensemble de sons, appelés degrés, formant le cadre dans lequel se bâtit une œuvre musicale.

In music, a scale is a set of sounds, called degrees, forming the framework in which a musical work is constructed.


wikification

Borrowed from English wikification. Equivalent to wikifier + -ification.


glaucophane

glaucophane m or f (plural glaucophanes)


perspicace

→ Romanian: perspicace

Near-synonym: clairvoyant

perspicacious, insightful, perceptive, observant (showing keen insight)


soutane

→ Dutch: soutane

→ English: soutane

→ German: Soutane

→ Polish: sutanna

→ Russian: сутана (sutana)

(figurative) Roman Catholic priesthood, the Roman Catholic Church or institutions.


carrefour

From Old French quarrefourc, from Latin quadrifurcus, from quadri- < quattuor + furca.


Maia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Μαῖα (Maîa).

a female given name, equivalent to English Maya


nonne

Inherited from Old French none, nominative singular of nonain, from Late Latin nonna. Compare German Nonne.


testicule

→ Persian: تستیکول (testikul)


solfège

→ Bulgarian: солфеж (solfež)

→ English: solfège

→ Finnish: solfeesi

→ Galician: solfexo

→ Japanese: ソルフェージュ (sorufēju)

→ Korean: 솔페주 (solpeju)

→ Latvian: solfēža

→ Lithuanian: solfežas

→ Persian:

Iranian Persian: سلفژ (solfež)

→ Polish: solfeż

→ Portuguese: solfejo

→ Turkish: solfej

(singing) the art of singing using the sol-fa system


occipital

fr-adj

occipital (feminine occipitale, masculine plural occipitaux, feminine plural occipitales)

occipitale (feminine)
occipitaux (masculine plural)
occipitales (feminine plural)

Borrowed from New Latin occipitālis, from Latin occiput (whence occiput).

lobe occipital


cédille

→ English: cédille

→ Finnish: sedilji

→ German: Cedille


brèche

→ Catalan: bretxa

→ Danish: breche

→ Galician: brecha

→ Italian: breccia (see there for further descendants)

→ Portuguese: brecha

→ Romanian: breșă

→ Russian: брешь (brešʹ)

→ Spanish: brecha

Inherited from Middle French breche, bresche, from Old French breche, bresche (“a breach, an opening, crack”), from Frankish *breka (“a breach, break”), from Proto-Germanic *brekō (“a breaking, breach, fallow ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break, crack”).
Cognate with Old High German brecha (“a break”). More at break.


bâti

(carpentry) frame
(in particular) door frame


connecter

connecter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
connectant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
connecté (participle past)
connecte (first-person indicative present singular)
connectes (indicative present second-person singular)
connecte (indicative present singular third-person)
connectons (first-person indicative plural present)
connectez (indicative plural present second-person)
connectent (indicative plural present third-person)
connectais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
connectais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
connectait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
connections (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
connectiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
connectaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
connectai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
connectas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
connecta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
connectâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
connectâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
connectèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
connecterai (first-person future indicative singular)
connecteras (future indicative second-person singular)
connectera (future indicative singular third-person)
connecterons (first-person future indicative plural)
connecterez (future indicative plural second-person)
connecteront (future indicative plural third-person)
connecterais (conditional first-person singular)
connecterais (conditional second-person singular)
connecterait (conditional singular third-person)
connecterions (conditional first-person plural)
connecteriez (conditional plural second-person)
connecteraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
connecte (first-person present singular subjunctive)
connectes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
connecte (present singular subjunctive third-person)
connections (first-person plural present subjunctive)
connectiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
connectent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
connectasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
connectasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
connectât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
connectassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
connectassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
connectassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
connecte (imperative second-person singular)
connectons (first-person imperative plural)
connectez (imperative plural second-person)

→ Dutch: connecteren

→ Franco-Provençal: conèctar

→ Occitan: connectar

→ Romanian: conecta

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messe

Inherited from Middle French messe, from Old French messe, from Late Latin missa, from Latin missum.


protomartyr

fr-noun

protomartyr m (plural protomartyrs, feminine protomartyre)

protomartyrs (plural)
protomartyre (feminine)


belle-de-nuit

(colloquial) marsh warbler, reed warbler


préservatif

fr-adj

préservatif (feminine préservative, masculine plural préservatifs, feminine plural préservatives)

préservative (feminine)
préservatifs (masculine plural)
préservatives (feminine plural)

From préserver (“to preserve”) + -atif (“-ative”).


caméra

→ Turkish: kamera

Borrowed from English camera, itself from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), from Latin camera (“chamber, bedchamber”). Doublet of chambre, which was inherited from Latin.


intégrale

→ Persian: انتگرال (antegrâl)

Coordinate term: primitive


intégral

fr-adj

intégral (feminine intégrale, masculine plural intégraux, feminine plural intégrales)

intégrale (feminine)
intégraux (masculine plural)
intégrales (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French integral, borrowed from Medieval Latin integrālis, from Latin integer.

(film) uncut (film); unabridged (text); all-over (suntan)


crocheter

crocheter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
crochetant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
crocheté (participle past)
crochète (first-person indicative present singular)
crochètes (indicative present second-person singular)
crochète (indicative present singular third-person)
crochetons (first-person indicative plural present)
crochetez (indicative plural present second-person)
crochètent (indicative plural present third-person)
crochetais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
crochetais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
crochetait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
crochetions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
crochetiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
crochetaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
crochetai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
crochetas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
crocheta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
crochetâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
crochetâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
crochetèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
crochèterai (first-person future indicative singular)
crochèterai (first-person future indicative singular)
crochèteras (future indicative second-person singular)
crochèteras (future indicative second-person singular)
crochètera (future indicative singular third-person)
crochètera (future indicative singular third-person)
crochèterons (first-person future indicative plural)
crochèterons (first-person future indicative plural)
crochèterez (future indicative plural second-person)
crochèterez (future indicative plural second-person)
crochèteront (future indicative plural third-person)
crochèteront (future indicative plural third-person)
crochèterais (conditional first-person singular)
crochèterais (conditional first-person singular)
crochèterais (conditional second-person singular)
crochèterais (conditional second-person singular)
crochèterait (conditional singular third-person)
crochèterait (conditional singular third-person)
crochèterions (conditional first-person plural)
crochèterions (conditional first-person plural)
crochèteriez (conditional plural second-person)
crochèteriez (conditional plural second-person)
crochèteraient (conditional plural third-person)
crochèteraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
crochète (first-person present singular subjunctive)
crochètes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
crochète (present singular subjunctive third-person)
crochetions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
crochetiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
crochètent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
crochetasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
crochetasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
crochetât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
crochetassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
crochetassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
crochetassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
crochète (imperative second-person singular)
crochetons (first-person imperative plural)
crochetez (imperative plural second-person)


provençal

From Provence + -al. Compare provincial.

Provençal; Occitan, especially the dialect of Occitan that is spoken in Provence


dermatite

From Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin”) + -ite.


digne

Inherited from Middle French and Old French digne, a borrowing from Latin dignus.


langage de programmation

fr-noun

langage de programmation m (plural langages de programmation)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-langage de programmation.wav

programming language
programming language


magnanime

Borrowed from Latin magnanimus, from magnus (“great”) + animus (“soul, mind”).


exergue

From Latin exergum, from Ancient Greek ἐξ (ex, “from, out of”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”).

(numismatics) exergue (space beneath the main design on a coin or medal for an inscription)


couveuse

→ Danish: kuvøse

→ Dutch: couveuse

→ English: couveuse

→ Swedish: kuvös

(medicine) an incubator for sick or premature newborns; couveuse


inodore

Dictionnaire de la langue française
Émile Littré


raccourci clavier

raccourci clavier m (plural raccourcis clavier)

(computing) keyboard shortcut, hotkey (a combination of keystrokes that provides easier access to a command or operation)


cade

Inherited from Middle French cade, intruded around 1500 from Old Occitan cade, from Latin catanum.

western prickly juniper
western prickly juniper

Juniperus oxycedrus
Juniperus oxycedrus#Translingual

western prickly juniper, cade (Juniperus oxycedrus)


cade

Inherited from Middle French cade, from Latin cadus.

(obsolete, revolutionary France) a cubic metre


assaut

Inherited from Old French assaut, asalt, from Vulgar Latin *assaltus, modification of Latin assultus.


bluffer

bluffer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
bluffant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
bluffé (participle past)
bluffe (first-person indicative present singular)
bluffes (indicative present second-person singular)
bluffe (indicative present singular third-person)
bluffons (first-person indicative plural present)
bluffez (indicative plural present second-person)
bluffent (indicative plural present third-person)
bluffais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
bluffais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
bluffait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
bluffions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
bluffiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
bluffaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
bluffai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
bluffas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
bluffa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
bluffâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
bluffâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
bluffèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
blufferai (first-person future indicative singular)
blufferas (future indicative second-person singular)
bluffera (future indicative singular third-person)
blufferons (first-person future indicative plural)
blufferez (future indicative plural second-person)
blufferont (future indicative plural third-person)
blufferais (conditional first-person singular)
blufferais (conditional second-person singular)
blufferait (conditional singular third-person)
blufferions (conditional first-person plural)
blufferiez (conditional plural second-person)
blufferaient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
bluffe (first-person present singular subjunctive)
bluffes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
bluffe (present singular subjunctive third-person)
bluffions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
bluffiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
bluffent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
bluffasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
bluffasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
bluffât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
bluffassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
bluffassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
bluffassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
bluffe (imperative second-person singular)
bluffons (first-person imperative plural)
bluffez (imperative plural second-person)


TTC

Le prix de ce livre est de 20 € TTC.

The price of this book is €20, all taxes included.

(money) Initialism of Toutes taxes comprises. Including all taxes, when talking about a price


point d'exclamation

point d’exclamation m (plural points d’exclamation)

point d’ exclamation (canonical masculine)
points d’exclamation (plural)


barre oblique inverse

barre oblique inverse f (plural barres obliques inverses)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-barre oblique inverse.wav


chlinguer

chlinguer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
chlinguant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
chlingué (participle past)
chlingue (first-person indicative present singular)
chlingues (indicative present second-person singular)
chlingue (indicative present singular third-person)
chlinguons (first-person indicative plural present)
chlinguez (indicative plural present second-person)
chlinguent (indicative plural present third-person)
chlinguais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
chlinguais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
chlinguait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
chlinguions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
chlinguiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
chlinguaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
chlinguai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
chlinguas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
chlingua (historic indicative past singular third-person)
chlinguâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
chlinguâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
chlinguèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
chlinguerai (first-person future indicative singular)
chlingueras (future indicative second-person singular)
chlinguera (future indicative singular third-person)
chlinguerons (first-person future indicative plural)
chlinguerez (future indicative plural second-person)
chlingueront (future indicative plural third-person)
chlinguerais (conditional first-person singular)
chlinguerais (conditional second-person singular)
chlinguerait (conditional singular third-person)
chlinguerions (conditional first-person plural)
chlingueriez (conditional plural second-person)
chlingueraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
chlingue (first-person present singular subjunctive)
chlingues (present second-person singular subjunctive)
chlingue (present singular subjunctive third-person)
chlinguions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
chlinguiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
chlinguent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
chlinguasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
chlinguasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
chlinguât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
chlinguassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
chlinguassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
chlinguassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
chlingue (imperative second-person singular)
chlinguons (first-person imperative plural)
chlinguez (imperative plural second-person)

Perhaps from German schlagen or schlingen.

Ça chlingue ici, faut ouvrir les fenêtres les mecs.

It stinks here, we should open some windows, guys.

Et quand le soleil se couchera a l’horizon, je le verrai. Je le vois déjà sur une reproduction d’un tableau de Gauguin, du fond de ma cellule chlinguant la pisse.

2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard:

Maintenant, c’est glauque, y’a que des halls, des halls avec des jeunes / Qui n’font rien mais qui dégradent et puis qui boivent et puis qui chlinguent

2015, “Urbanisme”, in NQNT 2, performed by Vald:

(intransitive, informal) to stink, to reek


défenestrer

défenestrer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
défenestrant (gerund participle present)
défenestrant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
défenestré (participle past)
défenestré (participle past)
défenestre (first-person indicative present singular)
défenestre (first-person indicative present singular)
défenestres (indicative present second-person singular)
défenestres (indicative present second-person singular)
défenestre (indicative present singular third-person)
défenestre (indicative present singular third-person)
défenestrons (first-person indicative plural present)
défenestrons (first-person indicative plural present)
défenestrez (indicative plural present second-person)
défenestrez (indicative plural present second-person)
défenestrent (indicative plural present third-person)
défenestrent (indicative plural present third-person)
défenestrais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
défenestrais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
défenestrais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
défenestrais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
défenestrait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
défenestrait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
défenestrions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
défenestrions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
défenestriez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
défenestriez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
défenestraient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
défenestraient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
défenestrai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
défenestrai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
défenestras (historic indicative past second-person singular)
défenestras (historic indicative past second-person singular)
défenestra (historic indicative past singular third-person)
défenestra (historic indicative past singular third-person)
défenestrâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
défenestrâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
défenestrâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
défenestrâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
défenestrèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
défenestrèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
défenestrerai (first-person future indicative singular)
défenestrerai (first-person future indicative singular)
défenestreras (future indicative second-person singular)
défenestreras (future indicative second-person singular)
défenestrera (future indicative singular third-person)
défenestrera (future indicative singular third-person)
défenestrerons (first-person future indicative plural)
défenestrerons (first-person future indicative plural)
défenestrerez (future indicative plural second-person)
défenestrerez (future indicative plural second-person)
défenestreront (future indicative plural third-person)
défenestreront (future indicative plural third-person)
défenestrerais (conditional first-person singular)
défenestrerais (conditional first-person singular)
défenestrerais (conditional second-person singular)
défenestrerais (conditional second-person singular)
défenestrerait (conditional singular third-person)
défenestrerait (conditional singular third-person)
défenestrerions (conditional first-person plural)
défenestrerions (conditional first-person plural)
défenestreriez (conditional plural second-person)
défenestreriez (conditional plural second-person)
défenestreraient (conditional plural third-person)
défenestreraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
défenestre (first-person present singular subjunctive)
défenestre (first-person present singular subjunctive)
défenestres (present second-person singular subjunctive)
défenestres (present second-person singular subjunctive)
défenestre (present singular subjunctive third-person)
défenestre (present singular subjunctive third-person)
défenestrions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
défenestrions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
défenestriez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
défenestriez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
défenestrent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
défenestrent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
défenestrasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
défenestrasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
défenestrasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
défenestrasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
défenestrât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
défenestrât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
défenestrassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
défenestrassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
défenestrassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
défenestrassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
défenestrassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
défenestrassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
défenestre (imperative second-person singular)
défenestre (imperative second-person singular)
défenestrons (first-person imperative plural)
défenestrons (first-person imperative plural)
défenestrez (imperative plural second-person)
défenestrez (imperative plural second-person)

From dé- + Latin fenestra + -er. Compare fenêtre (“window”).

to throw out of the window; to defenestrate


iodler

iodler (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
iodlant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
iodlé (participle past)
iodle (first-person indicative present singular)
iodles (indicative present second-person singular)
iodle (indicative present singular third-person)
iodlons (first-person indicative plural present)
iodlez (indicative plural present second-person)
iodlent (indicative plural present third-person)
iodlais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
iodlais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
iodlait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
iodlions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
iodliez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
iodlaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
iodlai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
iodlas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
iodla (historic indicative past singular third-person)
iodlâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
iodlâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
iodlèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
iodlerai (first-person future indicative singular)
iodleras (future indicative second-person singular)
iodlera (future indicative singular third-person)
iodlerons (first-person future indicative plural)
iodlerez (future indicative plural second-person)
iodleront (future indicative plural third-person)
iodlerais (conditional first-person singular)
iodlerais (conditional second-person singular)
iodlerait (conditional singular third-person)
iodlerions (conditional first-person plural)
iodleriez (conditional plural second-person)
iodleraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
iodle (first-person present singular subjunctive)
iodles (present second-person singular subjunctive)
iodle (present singular subjunctive third-person)
iodlions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
iodliez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
iodlent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
iodlasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
iodlasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
iodlât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
iodlassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
iodlassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
iodlassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
iodle (imperative second-person singular)
iodlons (first-person imperative plural)
iodlez (imperative plural second-person)


Camille

(male): From Latin Camillus
:(female): From Latin Camilla


Léa

a female given name currently popular in France


Chloé

a female given name, equivalent to English Chloe


courante

→ English: courante

→ Russian: кура́нты pl (kuránty)


relais

→ Crimean Tatar: rele

→ Czech: relé

→ Dutch: relais

→ Indonesian: relai

→ English: relais

→ Esperanto: relajso

→ Galician: relé

→ Italian: relais, relè

→ Norwegian Bokmål: relé

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: relé

→ Portuguese: relé

→ Spanish: relé

From Old French relaier (Modern French: relayer).

(electronics) relay (electromechanical device)


psychiatrie

→ Turkish: psikiyatri


foudroyant

fr-adj

foudroyant (feminine foudroyante, masculine plural foudroyants, feminine plural foudroyantes)

foudroyante (feminine)
foudroyants (masculine plural)
foudroyantes (feminine plural)

Il a contracté une méningite foudroyante.
He contracted a fulminant meningitis.

(medicine) fulminant; fatal, deadly (coming on quickly and destructively)


sauterelle

⇒ Catalan: santanell

→ English: sauterelle

(masonry) sauterelle (instrument to trace and form angles)


jongleur

fr-noun

jongleur m (plural jongleurs, feminine jongleuse)

→ Czech: žonglér

→ Danish: jonglør

→ Dutch: jongleur

→ English: jongleur

→ German: Jongleur

→ Hungarian: zsonglőr

→ Polish: żongler

→ Romanian: jongler

→ Russian: жонглёр (žongljór) (see there for further descendants)

→ Serbo-Croatian: žònglēr, жо̀нгле̄р

→ Slovak: žonglér

From Old French jangleor (and various other spellings) from jongler (“to entertain”).


bouse

From Gaulish or Ancient Ligurian. Cognate with Piedmontese busa, Ligurian bêusa, bûsa, bûsia and Occitan bosa, bosia.


comtesse

comtesse f (plural comtesses, masculine comte)

→ Danish: komtesse

→ English: comtesse

→ Turkish: kontes

From Middle French contese, contesse, from Old French contesce, contesse, cuntesse; equivalent to comte (“earl”) + -esse (“-ess”).


caleçon

→ Greek: καλσόν (kalsón)

→ Esperanto: kalsono

Louisiana Creole: caneçon

→ Swedish: kalsonger

→ Japanese: カルソン

Borrowed from Italian calzone, with an excrescent schwa (cf. the form calçon, attested in the sixteenth century). Doublet of chausson, an inherited form.

Ce qui me le fit mettre dans les poches de mon caleçon de bain...

1903, Jules Garçon, editor, Encyclopédie Universelle Des Industries Tinctoriales, page 199:

Which made me put it in the pockets of my swimming trunks...

Un caleçon minuscule.

1965, François Mauriac, Nouveaux Mémoires, Flammarion, page 905:


biologie

→ Persian: بیولوژی (biyoloži)

→ Romanian: biologie

→ Turkish: biyoloji

As a French word, coined by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1802. Possibly formed as bio- + -logie. Possibly borrowed from German Biologie or New Latin biologia. In any case, derived from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “bio-, life”) + -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”).


zoologie

→ Turkish: zooloji

zoology (science that studies the animal kingdom)


honneur

→ Turkish: onur

Inherited from Middle French honneur, from Old French enor, eneur, onor, honor, from Latin honor, honōrem.


talkie-walkie

Borrowed, and inverted, from English walkie-talkie.


assise

(geology) stratum, bed, layer (layer of sedimentary rock)

(masonry) course (row or layer of bricks)


décompiler

décompiler (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
décompilant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
décompilé (participle past)
décompile (first-person indicative present singular)
décompiles (indicative present second-person singular)
décompile (indicative present singular third-person)
décompilons (first-person indicative plural present)
décompilez (indicative plural present second-person)
décompilent (indicative plural present third-person)
décompilais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
décompilais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
décompilait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
décompilions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
décompiliez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
décompilaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
décompilai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
décompilas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
décompila (historic indicative past singular third-person)
décompilâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
décompilâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
décompilèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
décompilerai (first-person future indicative singular)
décompileras (future indicative second-person singular)
décompilera (future indicative singular third-person)
décompilerons (first-person future indicative plural)
décompilerez (future indicative plural second-person)
décompileront (future indicative plural third-person)
décompilerais (conditional first-person singular)
décompilerais (conditional second-person singular)
décompilerait (conditional singular third-person)
décompilerions (conditional first-person plural)
décompileriez (conditional plural second-person)
décompileraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
décompile (first-person present singular subjunctive)
décompiles (present second-person singular subjunctive)
décompile (present singular subjunctive third-person)
décompilions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
décompiliez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
décompilent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
décompilasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
décompilasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
décompilât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
décompilassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
décompilassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
décompilassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
décompile (imperative second-person singular)
décompilons (first-person imperative plural)
décompilez (imperative plural second-person)


compilateur

compilateur m (plural compilateurs, feminine compilatrice)

compilateurs (plural)
compilatrice (feminine)


langage d'assemblage

langage d’assemblage m (usually uncountable, plural langages d’assemblage)

langage d’ assemblage (canonical masculine)
langages d’assemblage (plural)


assembleur

assembleur m (plural assembleurs, feminine assembleuse)

assembleurs (plural)
assembleuse (feminine)


langage machine

langage machine f (plural langages machine)


librairie

Learned borrowing from Latin librāria (“library”), from liber (“book”). Sense “bookseller, bookshop” is from 16th century, and displaced “library” sense. The sense “software library” is a semantic loan from English library.

lbor

(programming, sometimes proscribed) library (collection of software routines)


toiler

toiler (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
toilant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
toilé (participle past)
toile (first-person indicative present singular)
toiles (indicative present second-person singular)
toile (indicative present singular third-person)
toilons (first-person indicative plural present)
toilez (indicative plural present second-person)
toilent (indicative plural present third-person)
toilais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
toilais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
toilait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
toilions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
toiliez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
toilaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
toilai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
toilas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
toila (historic indicative past singular third-person)
toilâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
toilâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
toilèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
toilerai (first-person future indicative singular)
toileras (future indicative second-person singular)
toilera (future indicative singular third-person)
toilerons (first-person future indicative plural)
toilerez (future indicative plural second-person)
toileront (future indicative plural third-person)
toilerais (conditional first-person singular)
toilerais (conditional second-person singular)
toilerait (conditional singular third-person)
toilerions (conditional first-person plural)
toileriez (conditional plural second-person)
toileraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
toile (first-person present singular subjunctive)
toiles (present second-person singular subjunctive)
toile (present singular subjunctive third-person)
toilions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
toiliez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
toilent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
toilasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
toilasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
toilât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
toilassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
toilassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
toilassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
toile (imperative second-person singular)
toilons (first-person imperative plural)
toilez (imperative plural second-person)

(nautical) to extent the sail of a watercraft


jongler

jongler (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
jonglant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
jonglé (participle past)
jongle (first-person indicative present singular)
jongles (indicative present second-person singular)
jongle (indicative present singular third-person)
jonglons (first-person indicative plural present)
jonglez (indicative plural present second-person)
jonglent (indicative plural present third-person)
jonglais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
jonglais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
jonglait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
jonglions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
jongliez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
jonglaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
jonglai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
jonglas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
jongla (historic indicative past singular third-person)
jonglâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
jonglâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
jonglèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
jonglerai (first-person future indicative singular)
jongleras (future indicative second-person singular)
jonglera (future indicative singular third-person)
jonglerons (first-person future indicative plural)
jonglerez (future indicative plural second-person)
jongleront (future indicative plural third-person)
jonglerais (conditional first-person singular)
jonglerais (conditional second-person singular)
jonglerait (conditional singular third-person)
jonglerions (conditional first-person plural)
jongleriez (conditional plural second-person)
jongleraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
jongle (first-person present singular subjunctive)
jongles (present second-person singular subjunctive)
jongle (present singular subjunctive third-person)
jonglions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
jongliez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
jonglent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
jonglasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
jonglasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
jonglât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
jonglassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
jonglassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
jonglassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
jongle (imperative second-person singular)
jonglons (first-person imperative plural)
jonglez (imperative plural second-person)

Louisiana Creole: jonglé

From an alteration of Old French jogler, from Latin ioculārī, and influenced by Old French jangler (“to entertain”), itself from Frankish *jangalon.


endormir

endormir (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
endormant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
endormi (participle past)
endors (first-person indicative present singular)
endors (indicative present second-person singular)
endort (indicative present singular third-person)
endormons (first-person indicative plural present)
endormez (indicative plural present second-person)
endorment (indicative plural present third-person)
endormais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
endormais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
endormait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
endormions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
endormiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
endormaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
endormis (first-person historic indicative past singular)
endormis (historic indicative past second-person singular)
endormit (historic indicative past singular third-person)
endormîmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
endormîtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
endormirent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
endormirai (first-person future indicative singular)
endormiras (future indicative second-person singular)
endormira (future indicative singular third-person)
endormirons (first-person future indicative plural)
endormirez (future indicative plural second-person)
endormiront (future indicative plural third-person)
endormirais (conditional first-person singular)
endormirais (conditional second-person singular)
endormirait (conditional singular third-person)
endormirions (conditional first-person plural)
endormiriez (conditional plural second-person)
endormiraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
endorme (first-person present singular subjunctive)
endormes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
endorme (present singular subjunctive third-person)
endormions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
endormiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
endorment (plural present subjunctive third-person)
endormisse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
endormisses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
endormît (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
endormissions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
endormissiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
endormissent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
endors (imperative second-person singular)
endormons (first-person imperative plural)
endormez (imperative plural second-person)


galoche

→ Czech: galoše

→ Danish: galoche

→ German: Galosche

→ Italian: caloscia, galoscia

→ Latvian: galoša

→ Polish: kalosz

→ Romanian: galoș

→ Turkish: galoş

→ Persian: گالش (gâloš)

→ Swedish: galosch

Of unclear origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *calopia, from calopodia, from Ancient Greek κᾱλόπους (kālópous, “shoemaker's last”). Alternatively from a Vulgar Latin gallicula, diminutive of Latin gallica (“Gallic shoe”). Other origins have also been proposed.


déviation

(transport) diversion; different route to travel


jubé

Inherited from Middle French jubé, from Latin iubē, singular imperative of iubeō.


effe

The name of the Latin-script letter F/f.