Marguerite

→ English: Marguerite

a female given name, equivalent to English Margaret


Lionel

a male given name, equivalent to English Lionel


dropper

dropper (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
droppant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
droppé (participle past)
droppe (first-person indicative present singular)
droppes (indicative present second-person singular)
droppe (indicative present singular third-person)
droppons (first-person indicative plural present)
droppez (indicative plural present second-person)
droppent (indicative plural present third-person)
droppais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
droppais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
droppait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
droppions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
droppiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
droppaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
droppai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
droppas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
droppa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
droppâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
droppâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
droppèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
dropperai (first-person future indicative singular)
dropperas (future indicative second-person singular)
droppera (future indicative singular third-person)
dropperons (first-person future indicative plural)
dropperez (future indicative plural second-person)
dropperont (future indicative plural third-person)
dropperais (conditional first-person singular)
dropperais (conditional second-person singular)
dropperait (conditional singular third-person)
dropperions (conditional first-person plural)
dropperiez (conditional plural second-person)
dropperaient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
droppe (first-person present singular subjunctive)
droppes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
droppe (present singular subjunctive third-person)
droppions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
droppiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
droppent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
droppasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
droppasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
droppât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
droppassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
droppassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
droppassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
droppe (imperative second-person singular)
droppons (first-person imperative plural)
droppez (imperative plural second-person)

Borrowed from English drop + -er (verbal infinitive suffix).

(transitive, golf) to drop (a golf ball in a position other than it has landed)


gyrovague

Borrowed from Medieval Latin gȳrovagus (“wandering aimlessly”).


souffle

→ English: souffle

(cardiology, medicine) the sound made by any condition which produces noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart; a murmur


fauteuil

→ Belarusian: фатэ́ль (fatélʹ)

→ Bulgarian: фотьо́йл (fotjójl)

→ English: fauteuil

→ Dutch: fauteuil

descendants tree

→ German: Fauteuil, Fotöl, Fotöll, Fotölch
→ Hungarian: fotel
→ Polish: fotel

→ Luxembourgish: Fotell

→ Macedonian: фотелја (fotelja)

→ Romanian: fotoliu

→ Swedish: fåtölj

→ Ukrainian: фоте́ль (fotélʹ)

→ Vietnamese: phô-tơi

Inherited from Middle French faulxdestueil, fauldesteul, fausdestueil, from Old French faudestuel, faldestoel, borrowed from Frankish *faldistōl (“folding seat”). Cognate with English foldstool, faldstool. Doublet of faldistoire.


bifteck

→ Albanian: biftek

desc

→ Armenian: պիֆթէք (piftʻēkʻ) (Western Armenian)

→ Bulgarian: бифте́к (bifték)

→ Czech: biftek

→ Greek: μπιφτέκι (biftéki)

→ Ladino: biftek

→ Macedonian: бифтек (biftek)

→ Japanese: ビフテキ (bifuteki)

→ Ottoman Turkish: بیفتك (biftek)

Turkish: biftek

→ Romanian: biftec

→ Vietnamese: bít tết

18th century, from English beefsteak with the cluster /fst/ reduced to /ft/ (or less often to /st/). The spelling was highly variable up into the 20th century until bifteck established itself, which is phonetic but adds the “un-French” -k, be it as a pseudo-English form or after the related steak (whose spelling remained unaltered).


retraité

fr-noun

retraité m (plural retraités, feminine retraitée)


parterre

→ Dutch: parterre

→ English: parterre

→ Greek: παρτέρι (partéri)

→ Polish: parter

→ Romanian: parter

→ Spanish: parterre

Inherited from Middle French [Term?]. Equivalent to par + terre.

the part of a theater between the stalls and the rear

(by extension) the members of a theater audience seated in the parterre


cercle

Haitian Creole: sèk

Inherited from Old French cercle, from Latin circulus.


curé

priest bearing the responsibility of a parish


Augustin

a male given name, feminine equivalent Augustine, equivalent to English Augustine


quartier

→ English: quartier

→ German: Quartier

→ Italian: quartiere

→ Portuguese: quartel

→ Romanian: cartier

→ Spanish: cuartel

From quart + -ier, possibly Medieval Latin quarterium, compare also Latin quartārium; cognate with Italian quartiere.

le premier quartier de lune

le dernier quartier de lune


tristesse

→ English: tristesse

First attested in Old French as tristesce, tristece. From triste + -esse, modeled after Latin trīstitia.

la tristesse durera

Adieu tristesse / Bonjour tristesse / Tu es inscrite dans les lignes du plafond / Tu es inscrite dans les yeux que j’aime / Tu n’es pas tout à fait la misère / Car les lèvres les plus pauvres te dénoncent / Par un sourire

1932, Paul Éluard, “À Peine Défigurée”, in La Vie immédiate, Paris: Gallimard:

Farewell sadness / Hello sadness / You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling / You are inscribed in the eyes of those I love / You are not quite the same as misery / Because the weakest lips can denounce you / With a smile


ratatouille

→ Dutch: ratatouille, ratjetoe

Borrowed from Occitan ratatolha (ratatouille is a dish from Nice, in Provence), French form from diminutive prefix tat- + touiller (“to stir”), from Latin tudiculō (“to grind, mix”).

a traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish consisting primarily of tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant, with other ingredients


Les Bleus

The nickname used for many of France's national sports teams


tibial

fr-adj

tibial (feminine tibiale, masculine plural tibiaux, feminine plural tibiales)

tibiale (feminine)
tibiaux (masculine plural)
tibiales (feminine plural)


volute

(music, lutherie) scroll (of a musical instrument)


Noël

→ Khmer: ណូអែល (nouʼael)

→ Persian: نوئل (no'el)

→ Vietnamese: Nô-en

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

inh

a male given name, equivalent to English Noel

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


moine

Inherited from Middle French moine, metathesis from Old French monie, from Late Latin monicus, variant of monachus.


affreux

fr-adj

affreux (feminine affreuse, masculine plural affreux, feminine plural affreuses)

affreuse (feminine)
affreux (masculine plural)
affreuses (feminine plural)

→ Dutch: affreus

→ English: affreux

→ German: affrös

From affre (“great fear”) + -eux. See affres.


république

→ Danish: republik

→ Dutch: republiek

Afrikaans: republiek

→ English: republic

→ German: Republik

→ Norwegian: republikk

→ Polish: republika

→ Swedish: republik

→ Yiddish: רעפּובליק (republik)

Inherited from Middle French republique (“republic”), borrowed from Latin rēspūblica, from rēs (“thing”) + pūblica (“public”).

inh+

Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques


voyageur

fr-adj

voyageur (feminine voyageuse, masculine plural voyageurs, feminine plural voyageuses)

voyageuse (feminine)
voyageurs (masculine plural)
voyageuses (feminine plural)

→ Romanian: voiajor


serveur

fr-noun

serveur m (plural serveurs, feminine serveuse)

From servir + -eur. Cf. also Old French serveor, Late Latin servitor.


disque

→ English: disc

→ Norman: disque

→ Persian: دیسک (disk)

→ Romanian: disc

→ Turkish: disk

Borrowed from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, which was inherited from Old French deis, dois.

disc (any flat or nearly flat circular object)

disque dur


roulade

→ Danish: roulade

→ English: roulade

→ German: Roulade

→ Polish: rolada


imbécile

→ German: imbezil
→ Polish: imbecyl

→ Turkish: embesil

stupid, foolish, acting like an imbecile


imbécile

Me prenez-vous pour un imbécile ?

On est tous des imbéciles / On est bien très bien débile

1985, “On est tous des imbéciles”, performed by Mylène Farmer:

We're all idiots / We are really, really, stupid


harmonium

→ English: harmonium

→ German: Harmonium

→ Polish: harmonium

→ Turkish: harmonyum, armonyum

Coined by French inventor Alexandre Debain in 1840, based on harmonie.


Pauline

a female given name derived from Latin Paulina


crampons

studs (shoes with studs on the bottom to aid grip)


menuisier

fr-noun

menuisier m (plural menuisiers, feminine menuisière)

menuisiers (plural)
menuisière (feminine)


Marseillaise

the Marseillaise (French national anthem)


bandeau

→ English: bandeau

From Old French bandel (from bande + -el).

(Toulouse, now historical) a tight headband worn for a long time, usually from youth, for the ancient folk custom of cranial deformation


baccalauréat

Borrowed from Medieval Latin baccalaureātus, from baccalaureus, an alteration of baccalārius (“young man aspiring to knighthood”) to resemble bacca laurī (“laurel berry”) (the ancient symbol of victory).

bor+

baccalaureat (≈ A-level, high school diploma)


vuvuzela

Borrowed from English vuvuzela, from Zulu vuvuzela (“to make a vu vu noise”), from the /vuː/ sound the horns make.


bande d'arrêt d'urgence

fr-noun

bande d’arrêt d’urgence f (plural bandes d’arrêt d’urgence)

bande d’ arrêt d’ urgence (canonical feminine)
bandes d’arrêt d’urgence (plural)


acidose

(pathology) acidosis (an abnormally increased acidity of the blood)


Letton

Letton m (plural Lettons, feminine Lettonne or Lettone)

Lettons (plural)
Lettonne (feminine)
Lettone (feminine)


colonie

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: قولونی (koloni)
Turkish: koloni

Borrowed from Latin colōnia (“colony”), from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”).


salon de thé

LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-salon de thé.wav


Serbe

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


geoduck

From Lushootseed gʷídəq, assimilated to géo-.


assiette

→ English: assiette, ashet

→ German: Assiette

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: asjett

→ Piedmontese: assieta

→ Romanian: asietă

→ Swedish: assiett

→ Finnish: asetti

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *assedita, past participle of *assedere, from Latin assidēre.

ne pas être dans son assiette

(archaic) manner of being seated, situation

(nautical) trim, attitude, pitch attitude

On a besoin d’assiettes.


carpe

Borrowed from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós).


théâtre

Haitian Creole: teyat

desc

→ Persian: تئاتر (te'âtr), تیاتر (tiyâtr)

→ Romanian: teatru

desctree

→ Russian: теа́тр (teátr), теа́тръ (teátr) — Pre-reform orthography (1918), ѳеа́тръ (feátr), феа́тр (feátr) — archaic
→ Azerbaijani:
Cyrillic script: театр
Latin script: teatr
→ Bashkir: театр (teatr)
→ Buryat: театр (tjeatr)
→ Crimean Tatar: teatr
→ Evenki: театр (teatr)
→ Kalmyk: театр (teatr)
→ Kazakh:
Arabic script: تەاتر
Cyrillic script: театр (teatr)
Latin script: teatr
→ Khakas: театр (teatr)
→ Kyrgyz: театр (teatr)
→ Livvi: teatru
→ Mongolian:
Cyrillic script: театр (teatr)
Mongolian script: ᠲᠢᠶᠠᠲᠷ (tiyatr)
→ Southern Altai: театр (teatr)
→ Tajik: театр (teatr)
→ Tatar: театр (teatr)
→ Tuvan: театр (teatr)
→ Uyghur:
Cyrillic script: театр (tëatr)
Arabic script: تىياتىر (tiyatir)
⇒ Uyghur:
Cyrillic script: театрхана (tëatrxana)
Arabic script: تىياتىرخانا (tiyatirxana)
→ Uzbek:
Cyrillic script: театр (teatr)
Latin script: teatr
→ Yakut: театр (teatr), тыйаатыр (tıyaatır), тийээтир (tiyeetir)

Switzerland, Canton of Valais; Quebec, standard

Borrowed from Latin theātrum, from Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from θεάομαι (theáomai, “to see, to watch, to observe”).


téléphone

→ Algerian Arabic: تيليفون

→ Persian: تلفن (telefon)

→? Afar: telfóon, talafóon

From télé- + -phone from Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “voice, sound”).

Oui, certainement, elle pensait à ma mère, elle attendait un coup de téléphone, enfin n’importe quoi ; ce n’était pas mystérieux, elle n’aurait eu qu’à le dire pour m’en donner l’idée.

Yes, certainly, she was thinking of my mother, she was waiting for a phone call, or whatever, it wasn't mysterious, all she had to do was say it to give me some idea.


vitesse

→ Luxembourgish: Vitesse

→ Romanian: viteză

→ Turkish: vites

From Old French vistece. By surface analysis, vite + -esse.

à deux vitesses

boîte de vitesses

en quatrième vitesse

passer à la vitesse supérieure


balcon

desctree

→ Danish: balkon
→ Greenlandic: balkonngi

→ Dutch: balkon

→ German: Balkon

→ Ottoman Turkish: بالقون (balkon)
Turkish: balkon
→ Albanian: ballkon

→ Persian: بالکن (bâlkon)

→ Polish: balkon

→ Romanian: balcon

→ Russian: балко́н (balkón)
→ Armenian: բալկոն (balkon)
→ Azerbaijani: balkon
→ Georgian: ბალკონი (balḳoni)
→ Kazakh: балкон (balkon)

→ Swedish: balkong

→ Vietnamese: ban công


vicomte

→ Arabic: فيكونت (vīkōnt)

→ Azerbaijani: vikont

→ English: vicomte

→ Ottoman Turkish: ویقونت (vikont)
Turkish: vikont

→ Persian: ویکنت (vikont)

→ Russian: вико́нт (vikónt)

→ Uzbek: vikont

From Old French visconte, reduced form of Old French vice conte, from Medieval Latin vicecomes, < Latin vices comes. See vice- and comte.


marbre

Inherited from Old French marbre, from Latin marmor, from Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros).


attendu

Attendu les circonstances atténuantes, la cour ne l’a condamné qu’à une peine avec sursis.

In view of the extenuating circumstances, the court only gave him a suspended sentence.


Virginie

Haitian Creole: Vijini

a female given name, equivalent to English Virginia


chasseur

fr-noun

chasseur m (plural chasseurs, feminine chasseuse or chasseresse)

chasseurs (plural)
chasseuse (feminine)
chasseresse (feminine)

From chasser + -eur; found in Old French as chaceür, chaceor. Compare Italian cacciatore, Spanish cazador.

a la façon chasseur, a style of cooking in which meat is cooked with a sauce containing mushrooms, shallots and white wine


gendarme

→ Catalan: gendarme

→ Czech: žandarm

→ English: gendarme

→ Franco-Provençal: g·endârme

→ Galician: xendarme

→ German: Gendarm
→ Polish: szendar

→ Italian: gendarme

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: ژاندارمه (jandarma), ժանտարմա (jandarma) — Armeno-Turkish
Turkish: jandarma
→ Armenian: ժանտարմա (žantarma)
→ Laz: ჯანდამა (candama), ჟანდამა (jandama) — Arkabi, ჟანდარმა (jandarma) — Akçakoca, ჯანდარმა (candarma)

→ Persian: ژاندرم (žândarm)

→ Polish: żandarm

→ Portuguese: gendarme

→ Romanian: jandarm

→ Russian: жандарм (žandarm)
→ Armenian: ժանդարմ (žandarm)
→ Georgian: ჟანდარმი (žandarmi)
→ Turkmen: žandarm
→ Uyghur: ژاندارما (zhandarma)

→ Spanish: gendarme

→ Ukrainian: жандарм (žandarm)

Singular extracted from plural gendarmes, which arose as a re-spelling of gens d’armes (“people of arms", "armed people”).

a member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties


joyeux

fr-adj

joyeux (feminine joyeuse, masculine plural joyeux, feminine plural joyeuses)

joyeuse (feminine)
joyeux (masculine plural)
joyeuses (feminine plural)

From joie + -eux. cf. also Late Latin gaudiōsus.


combattre

combattre (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
combattant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
combattu (participle past)
combats (first-person indicative present singular)
combats (indicative present second-person singular)
combat (indicative present singular third-person)
combattons (first-person indicative plural present)
combattez (indicative plural present second-person)
combattent (indicative plural present third-person)
combattais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
combattais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
combattait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
combattions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
combattiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
combattaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
combattis (first-person historic indicative past singular)
combattis (historic indicative past second-person singular)
combattit (historic indicative past singular third-person)
combattîmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
combattîtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
combattirent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
combattrai (first-person future indicative singular)
combattras (future indicative second-person singular)
combattra (future indicative singular third-person)
combattrons (first-person future indicative plural)
combattrez (future indicative plural second-person)
combattront (future indicative plural third-person)
combattrais (conditional first-person singular)
combattrais (conditional second-person singular)
combattrait (conditional singular third-person)
combattrions (conditional first-person plural)
combattriez (conditional plural second-person)
combattraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
combatte (first-person present singular subjunctive)
combattes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
combatte (present singular subjunctive third-person)
combattions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
combattiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
combattent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
combattisse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
combattisses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
combattît (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
combattissions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
combattissiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
combattissent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
combats (imperative second-person singular)
combattons (first-person imperative plural)
combattez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Middle French combatre, from Old French combatre, from Vulgar Latin *combattere, from Latin cum + battuō, from Gaulish.


sommet

Inherited from Old French somet, sommette, diminutive derivation of som (“highest part, top of a hill”) from Latin summum.


Lou

a diminutive of the male given name Louis

a diminutive of the female given name Louise


croyant

croyant (feminine croyante, masculine plural croyants, feminine plural croyantes)

croyante (feminine)
croyants (masculine plural)
croyantes (feminine plural)

Je suis croyant.

Un homme croyant.


neveu

→ Danish: nevø

→ Norwegian Bokmål: nevø

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: nevø

→ Swedish: nevö

Inherited from Old French neveu, from Latin nepōtem, from Proto-Italic *nepōts, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *népōts.


précisément

Mon jeune âge, précisément, me forçait à imaginer l’avenir en fonction de moi-même et d’une certaine recherche du bonheur.

1955, Jean Giono, The Man Who Planted Trees:

Precisely because of my young age, I could not help but imagine the future according to myself and a certain search for happiness.


soupir

Deverbal from soupirer (Old French sopir, sospir), or possibly from Latin suspirium.


bon vivant

fr-noun

bon vivant m (plural bons vivants, feminine bonne vivante)

bons vivants (plural)
bonne vivante (feminine)

a bon vivant, who enjoys the good things in life


biscotto

Borrowed from Italian biscotto (“cookie, biscuit”) (in a figurative sense). Doublet of biscuit and biscotte.

bor+

(sports) tactical play between two people (or two teams) aimed to wrong or evict a third person (or a third team)


pratique

→ Romanian: practică

Inherited from Middle French practique, from Medieval Latin prāctica.

On donna pratique à ce navire après qu’il eut fait la quarantaine.

We gave freedom to board or disembark to the ship after it went through quarantine.

(nautical) freedom to board or disembark (as opposed to quarantine)


dingue

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

La célébrité me faisait mener une existence de dingue.

Fame was leading me to a crazy existence.


troller

troller (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
trollant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
trollé (participle past)
trolle (first-person indicative present singular)
trolles (indicative present second-person singular)
trolle (indicative present singular third-person)
trollons (first-person indicative plural present)
trollez (indicative plural present second-person)
trollent (indicative plural present third-person)
trollais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
trollais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
trollait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
trollions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
trolliez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
trollaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
trollai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
trollas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
trolla (historic indicative past singular third-person)
trollâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
trollâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
trollèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
trollerai (first-person future indicative singular)
trolleras (future indicative second-person singular)
trollera (future indicative singular third-person)
trollerons (first-person future indicative plural)
trollerez (future indicative plural second-person)
trolleront (future indicative plural third-person)
trollerais (conditional first-person singular)
trollerais (conditional second-person singular)
trollerait (conditional singular third-person)
trollerions (conditional first-person plural)
trolleriez (conditional plural second-person)
trolleraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
trolle (first-person present singular subjunctive)
trolles (present second-person singular subjunctive)
trolle (present singular subjunctive third-person)
trollions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
trolliez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
trollent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
trollasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
trollasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
trollât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
trollassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
trollassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
trollassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
trolle (imperative second-person singular)
trollons (first-person imperative plural)
trollez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Old French troller, of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *truzlōną (“to lumber”), which is probably related to *trudaną (“to tread, step on”).

(hunting) to wander unsystematically about, looking for game


botte

Borrowed from Italian botta from the verb bottare, itself a borrowing from French bouter.


botte

Probably borrowed from Old Occitan bota, from Latin buttis (“bottle”).

(nautical) ton, register ton (unit of a ship's capacity equal to 100 cubic feet)


boxeur

fr-noun

boxeur m (plural boxeurs, feminine boxeuse)


sérieux

fr-adj

sérieux (feminine sérieuse, masculine plural sérieux, feminine plural sérieuses)

sérieuse (feminine)
sérieux (masculine plural)
sérieuses (feminine plural)

Louisiana Creole: sériyé

Borrowed from Late Latin sēriōsus, from Classical Latin sērius (“grave, earnest, serious”).


fidèle

Borrowed from Latin fidēlis (“loyal”), replaced the inherited Old French fedel, fëel (cf. French féal).

Le chien était toujours fidèle à son maître.

Irène est fidèle à son mari.

une traduction fidèle


énorme

→ Franco-Provençal: ènormo

Inherited from Middle French enorme, borrowed from Latin ēnormis.


appartement

→ Czech: apartmá

→ Dutch: appartement

→ English: apartment (see there for further descendants)

→ German: Appartement

→ Luxembourgish: Appartement

→ Persian: آپارتمان (âpârtemân) (see there for further descendants)

→ Romanian: apartament

→ Serbo-Croatian: apartman

→ Turkish: apartman

→ Laz: აფართუმანი (apartumani)

Borrowed from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento.


portée

From feminine past participle of porter (“to carry”).


quai

Inherited from Old French cail, specifically from forms without the final l such as kay, kai. Doublet of age and haie.


Dominique

Borrowed from Late Latin Dominicus, derived from Dominus (“Lord”).

a male given name, equivalent to English Dominic


Dominique

a female given name, masculine equivalent Dominic


bouteille

Haitian Creole: boutèy

Borrowings

→ Alemannic German: Butëlle

→ Aragonese: botella

→ Asturian: botella

→ Basque: botila

q

+ <i class="Cyrl mention" lang="bg">-ка</i> (-ka)

→ Bulgarian: бутилка (butilka) (+ -ка (-ka))

→ Catalan: botella

→ Chinook Jargon: laputay (from la bouteille)

→ Makah: lapu·ta·y

desc

→ Dutch: bouteille, boetelje, bottelje, boutelje (all obsolete) (obsolete)

→ Galician: botella

→ German: Bouteille (obsolete, unadapted)

→ German: Buttel (adapted)

→ Polish: butla

⇒ Polish: butelka (see there for further descendants)

desctree

→ Italian: bottiglia
→ Albanian: butile, butilë, botile
→ Greek: μποτίλια (botília)
→ Serbo-Croatian: butelja /бутеља, botilja /ботиља

→ Lithuanian: butelis

→ Middle Low German: buddel

German Low German: Buddel

→ German: Buddel

Plautdietsch: Buddel

→ Estonian: pudel

→ Latvian: pudele

→ Moore: butelle, bugtelle

→ Northern Sami: bohtal

→ Portuguese: botelha

→ Romanian: butelie

→ Russian: бутыль (butylʹ)

→ Spanish: botella (see there for further descendants)

→ Swedish: butelj
→ Finnish: puteli

→ Serbo-Croatian: putela / путела

From Old French boteille, from Late Latin butticula.

avec des si on mettrait Paris en bouteille

laisser sa raison au fond de la bouteille

boire à la bouteille

avoir de la bouteille

prendre de la bouteille


attaque

→ English: attack

→ German: Attacke

→ Polish: atak

→ Romanian: atac


brioso

Borrowed from Italian brioso (“lively”).


crapaud

→ English: crapaud

→ Guyanese Creole English: crappo

→ English: crappo

Inherited from Middle French crapaud, from Old French crapaut, crapot (“frog, toad”), from Frankish *krappō, *krappa (“hook, claw”) (because of a toad's hooked feet) + -aud. Compare Catalan gripau, Occitan grapaut. Displaced Old French froiz (“toad”), from Old Norse frauðr (“frog”).

la bave du crapaud n’atteint pas la blanche colombe


mobilisation

desc

мобилиза́ция

→ Bulgarian: мобилиза́ция (mobilizácija)

→ Crimean Tatar: mobilizatsiya

→ English: mobilisation

мобилиза́ция

→ Russian: мобилиза́ция (mobilizácija)

→ Kazakh: мобилизация (mobilizasiä)

→ Kyrgyz: мобилизация (mobilizatsiya)

мобилизатсия

→ Tajik: мобилизатсия (mobilizatsiya)

→ Uzbek: mobilizatsiya


samovar

Borrowed from Russian самова́р (samovár).


Waterloo

From Middle Dutch, composed of water (“water”) + loo (“sacred wood, forest”).

af

A village in Walloon Brabant, Belgium; the site of a major military battle in 1815


assemblage

(carpentry) jointing (act of making a joint)

(computing) a phase in compilation where an assembly language is translated into a binary file

(viticulture) cuvée (wine produced from a mixture of several grape varieties)

(archaeology) assemblage (group of different artifacts found in association with one another)

(cartography) juxtaposition of several maps or cuttings to create a larger map


assignation

From Old French assignacion, from Latin assīgnātiō.


munition

English: munition, ammunition

Borrowed from Latin mūnitiōnem, from mūniō.


souverain

fr-adj

souverain (feminine souveraine, masculine plural souverains, feminine plural souveraines)

souveraine (feminine)
souverains (masculine plural)
souveraines (feminine plural)

→ Danish: suveræn

→ German: souverän

→ Romanian: suveran

Inherited from Old French soverain, from Vulgar Latin *superānus, from Latin super. Compare Italian sovrano; Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish soberano.


souverain

→ Danish: suveræn

→ German: Souverän

→ Romanian: suveran

→ Russian: суверен (suveren)


Edouard

a male given name, a typographical variant of Édouard


populaire

→ Turkish: popüler

République populaire démocratique de Corée


bonhomme de neige

fr-noun

bonhomme de neige m (plural bonhommes de neige or bonshommes de neige)

bonhommes de neige (plural)
bonshommes de neige (plural)

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faux-filet

From faux (“false”) + filet (“fillet”). Replaced the Old French surlonge.


saucisson

From Middle French saulcisson (“large sausage”), from Italian salsiccione (“large sausage”). By surface analysis, saucisse + -on.

bor

saucisson sec

large sausage, often well-spiced and dried such as salami


omnium

(sports) an open (open sports tournament)

(cycling) an omnium (a multi-event track cycling race)


Australie

Literally, “the southern land”, from Latin australis (“southern”).

Australia (A country in Oceania comprising the islands of Australia, Tasmania and other smaller islands in the Pacific Ocean, as well as a former colony in the British Empire)

(geology) Australia (a continent consisting of the islands of Australia, New Guinea and intervening islands)


athée

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

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

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

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


César

Inherited from Middle French Cæsar, borrowed from Latin Caesar. Doublet of tsar.

a male given name, equivalent to English Cesar.

A statuette awarded by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma.


états-unien

fr-adj

états-unien (feminine états-unienne, masculine plural états-uniens, feminine plural états-uniennes)

états-unienne (feminine)
états-uniens (masculine plural)
états-uniennes (feminine plural)

(relational) United Statian, United Statesian; American


logiciel

From logique + -iel, by analogy with and opposition to matériel.

(computing) software (encoded computer instructions)

(computing) computer program, piece of software


herbes de Provence

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erreur

From Old French, borrowed from Latin errōrem.

Near-synonyms: défaillance, dysfonctionnement

Une erreur système s’est produite pendant l’enregistrement des données.

A system error occurred while the data was being saved (lit. during the saving of the data).

(computing) error (a failure, misfunction)


sueur

Inherited from Old French suor, suur, from Latin sūdor, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sweyd-.

Être poète, c’est trouver parfumée la sueur de la femme qu’on aime.

1972, Henri Vincenot, Le Pape des escargots [The Pope of the Snails], page 290:

To be a poet is to consider as perfumed the sweat of the woman he loves.


selle

Inherited from Middle French selle, from Old French sele, from Latin sella, from Proto-Italic *sedlā, from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

(metonymically, chiefly in the plural) excrement (human or animal)


Jésus

Haitian Creole: Jezi

From Latin Iēsūs, from Ancient Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs), from Hebrew ישוע (y'hoshúa).


corniche

→ Ottoman Turkish: قورنیش (korniş)

Turkish: korniş

(architecture) a horizontal moulded projection which crowns or finishes a building or some part of a building or runs round the wall of a room; cornice


querelle

→ Italian: querelle

From Old French querele, from Latin querella (“complaint”), from queror (“to lament, to complain”).


piastre

Borrowed from Italian piastra. Doublet of plâtre.

(historical) piastre (one of several historical units of currency)

Neuf, ça vaut au moins mille piastres, je l’ai eu pour la moitié.

It's worth at least a thousand bucks new; I got it for half that.

3. La piastre ayant cours de monnaie dans les États-Unis, il est convenu que dans les comptes auxquels la présente convention donnera lieu, le rapport de ladite monnaie, avec le franc, sera invariablement fixé à cinq francs 3.333 / 10.000, ou cinq livres huit sols tournois.

1803, Traité d'achat de la Louisiane (Louisiana Purchase Treaty):

3. It is agreed that the Dollar of the United States Specified in the present Convention shall be fixed at five francs 3333/100000 or five livres eight Sous tournois.

Les qualifications d’un sénateur seront comme suit : [...] 4. Ses propriétés mobilières et immobilières devront valoir, somme toute, quatre mille piastres, en sus de toutes ses dettes et obligations.

1867, Loi constitutionnelle de 1867 (Constitution Act, 1867):

The Qualifications of a Senator shall be as follows: … 4. His Real and Personal Property shall be together worth Four thousand Dollars over and above his Debts and Liabilities.

Non, non, c’est juste une joke. Garde-lé, ton vingt piastres.

2009, Robert Maltais, Le Curé du Mile End, page 195:

No, no, I was just joking. Keep it, your twenty bucks.

(North America, now colloquial, formerly also official) Canadian or American dollar


agnostique

fr-noun

agnostique m or f by sense (plural agnostiques)


paquet

→ Catalan: paquet

desctree

→ German: Paket
→ Romanian: pachet
Russian: пакет (paket)
Bulgarian: пакет (paket)
Ukrainian: пакет (paket)

→ Ottoman Turkish: پاكت (paket)
Turkish: paket

→ Persian: پاکت (pâkat)

→ Sicilian: pachettu

→ Spanish: paquete

From Middle French paquet, from Middle Dutch pac (Dutch pak), from Proto-Germanic *pakkô.


poésie

Haitian Creole: pwezi

→ Danish: poesi

→ German: Poesie

→ Romanian: poezie

→ Polish: poezja
→ Russian: поэ́зия (poézija), поэ́зія (poézija) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
→ Kazakh: поэзия (poéziä)

Inherited from Middle French poesie, from Late Latin poēsia, from earlier poēsis, from Ancient Greek ποίησις (poíēsis).


bourreau

L’abandonnerez-vous à l’infâme couteau / Qui fait choir les méchants sous la main d’un bourreau ?

1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act 5, scene 3:

Would you abandon him to the infamous blade / Which makes the wicked fall under the headman's hand?


camion

→ Bulgarian: камион (kamion)

→ Dutch: camion

→ English: camion

→ Galician: camión

→ Hungarian: kamion

→ Italian: camion

→ Luxembourgish: Camion

→ Macedonian: камион (kamion)

→ Moore: kamiyõ

→ Occitan: camion

→ Portuguese: camião
Macanese: camiám

→ Brazilian Portuguese: caminhão
→ Hunsrik: Kamiong

→ Romanian: camion

→ Serbo-Croatian: kamìōn/камѝо̄н

→ Sicilian: camiu, camiuni

→ Slovene: kamion

→ Spanish: camión

→ Switzerland German: Camion

→ Turkish: kamyon

→ Persian: کامیون (kâmiyon)

→ Vietnamese: cam nhông

Unknown origin, however, most likely early 19th century. Possibly from chemin (“way, route”), see Spanish camino, or from Latin chamūlcus (“chariot”), from Ancient Greek χᾰμουλκός (khămoulkós, “crane, windlass, or possibly other machine”), from χθών (khthṓn, “earth, ground”) + ἑλκέω (helkéō, “I drag”).


coup de boule

fr-noun

coup de boule m (plural coups de boules)


force de frappe

force de frappe f (countable and uncountable, plural forces de frappe)


vair

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


gamin

fr-adj

gamin (feminine gamine, masculine plural gamins, feminine plural gamines)

gamine (feminine)
gamins (masculine plural)
gamines (feminine plural)


anis

→ Galician: anís

→ Portuguese: anis

→ Spanish: anís

Inherited from Old French anis, from Latin anīsum, from Ancient Greek ἄνισον (ánison).


porte cochère

fr-noun

porte cochère f (plural portes cochères)

→ English: porte cochère

(architecture, road transport) porte cochère


caloyer

caloyer m (plural caloyers, feminine caloyère)

Borrowed from Italian caloiero, from Ancient Greek κᾰλόγηρος (kălógēros, “venerable”), from κᾰλός (kălós, “beautiful”) + γῆρας (gêras, “old age”).


Gaston

First recorded for medieval French aristocracy, of disputed origin, possibly from Germanic gast "guest". ("A man from Gascony" has also been suggested, compare Gascon.)


Manuel

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Manuel; ultimately from Hebrew עִמָּנוּאֵל (imanu'él), from עִמָּנוּ אֵל (imánu él, literally “God is with us”).

bor+

a male given name from Spanish or Portuguese


abbaye

Inherited from Middle French abbaïe, from Old French abaïe, from Late Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin abbatia.


conséquence

la conséquence logique

la conséquence matérielle

la conséquence syntaxique et la conséquence sémantique

syntactic consequence and semantic consequence


glisser

glisser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
glissant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
glissé (participle past)
glisse (first-person indicative present singular)
glisses (indicative present second-person singular)
glisse (indicative present singular third-person)
glissons (first-person indicative plural present)
glissez (indicative plural present second-person)
glissent (indicative plural present third-person)
glissais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
glissais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
glissait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
glissions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
glissiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
glissaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
glissai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
glissas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
glissa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
glissâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
glissâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
glissèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
glisserai (first-person future indicative singular)
glisseras (future indicative second-person singular)
glissera (future indicative singular third-person)
glisserons (first-person future indicative plural)
glisserez (future indicative plural second-person)
glisseront (future indicative plural third-person)
glisserais (conditional first-person singular)
glisserais (conditional second-person singular)
glisserait (conditional singular third-person)
glisserions (conditional first-person plural)
glisseriez (conditional plural second-person)
glisseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
glisse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
glisses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
glisse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
glissions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
glissiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
glissent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
glissasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
glissasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
glissât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
glissassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
glissassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
glissassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
glisse (imperative second-person singular)
glissons (first-person imperative plural)
glissez (imperative plural second-person)

→ Italian: glissare

→ Portuguese: glissar

→ Romanian: glisa

From Middle French glisser, from Old French glicier (“to slip, slide, glide”), from a merger of Old French glacier (“to slip, slide”) and Old French gliier, glier (“to slip, slide, glide”), from Frankish *glīdan (“to slide, glide”), from Proto-Germanic *glīdaną (“to glide, slide”). More at glide.


sourd

fr-adj

sourd (feminine sourde, masculine plural sourds, feminine plural sourdes)

sourde (feminine)
sourds (masculine plural)
sourdes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French sourd, from Old French sourt, sord, surt, surz, from Latin surdus, from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“ringing, whistling”).


sourd

fr-noun

sourd m (plural sourds, feminine sourde)

il n’est pire sourd que celui qui ne veut pas entendre


généreux

fr-adj

généreux (feminine généreuse, masculine plural généreux, feminine plural généreuses)

généreuse (feminine)
généreux (masculine plural)
généreuses (feminine plural)

→ Dutch: genereus

Inherited from Middle French genereux, from Latin generōsus.


Estelle

Borrowed from Occitan estela, from Latin stella (“star”). Doublet of étoile.


raisonnable

Inherited from Old French resnable, from Late Latin ratiōnābilis, from Latin ratiō. Equivalent to raison + -able.

reasonable, just, fair, consistent, sensible


enfance

Inherited from Old French enfance, borrowed from Latin īnfāntia, from īnfāns (“unable to speak”).


parfum

→ Danish: parfume

→ Dutch: parfum

→ German: Parfüm (see there for further descendants)

→ Romanian: parfum

→ Turkish: parfüm

From Middle French parfumer (“to scent”), borrowed from Old Occitan perfumar or another language around the Mediterranean coast, cf. Italian profumare, themselves from Latin per- (“through, thoroughly”) + fumāre (“to smoke”).


pistolet

From pistole + -et. Ultimately from Czech píšťala (“whistle”).


carie

(dentistry) decay (uncountable), cavity (countable) (process or result of bone or teeth being gradually decomposed)

(botany) rot (process of a plant becoming rotten)

(agriculture) rust (disease of cereals in which the grain is replaced by the spores of a reddish-brown fungus in genus Uredo)


Jules

a male given name, equivalent to English Julius


Antoinette

→ Bulgarian: Антоане́та (Antoanéta)

→ Cebuano: Antoinette

→ Danish: Antoinette

→ English: Antoinette

→ Greek: Αντουανέτα (Antouanéta)

→ Portuguese: Antonieta

desc

→ Chinese: → 安托瓦妮特 (Āntuōwǎnītè) (transliteration)

a female given name, a feminine diminutive form of Antoine


Louvre

Of disputed origin:
* possibly from Latin Lupara, a name derived from lupus (“wolf”), as the first fortress of the Louvre was built on a place with such a name designating its area as a wolf hunting den.
* or of Germanic origin, such as Frankish; in an old Saxon-Latin gloss, Loëvar is translated as Castellum, related to Middle Low German lūren (“to watch over, lurk, spy”), from Proto-Germanic *lūraną, which is of uncertain origin, but possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“to see, shine”).
* possibly from Late Latin roboretum (“oak wood”), from Latin robur (“oak tree”), by analysis with the modern name of the Norman river Rouvre.


moue

Inherited from Middle French moue, from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”). Akin to Middle Dutch mouwe (“protruding lip”).

– Et mon cœur ? Elle m’a souri et s’est penchée au-dessus de la table. — Il n’est pas déglingué, ton cœur ? elle a répondu avec une petite moue qui doute.

1999, Anna Gavalda, “Ambre”, in Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part, →ISBN:

‘What about my heart?’ She smiled at me and leant over the table. ‘Isn't your heart worn out?’ she replied, with a little doubtful pout.


chopine

(Canada) a French Canadian term for an imperial pint, equal to one eighth of an Imperial gallon, 20 Imperial ounces, or 0.568 liters


chopine

From Middle French chapin, from Old Spanish chapín.

(footwear) chopine (type of platform shoe)


cuillère

Haitian Creole: kuiyè, kiyè, kouyè

→ Vietnamese: cùi dìa

Inherited from Old French cuilliere, from Latin cochleārium (“spoon”), from cochlear (“spoon”), from cochlea (“snail”). Compare Italian cucchiaio, Catalan cullera, Spanish cuchara.

né avec une cuillère d’argent dans la bouche

né avec une cuillère en argent dans la bouche

ne pas y aller avec le dos de la cuillère


camouflet

→ English: camouflet


cochon de lait

fr-noun

cochon de lait m (plural cochons de lait)


lutter

lutter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
luttant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
lutté (participle past)
lutte (first-person indicative present singular)
luttes (indicative present second-person singular)
lutte (indicative present singular third-person)
luttons (first-person indicative plural present)
luttez (indicative plural present second-person)
luttent (indicative plural present third-person)
luttais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
luttais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
luttait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
luttions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
luttiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
luttaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
luttai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
luttas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
lutta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
luttâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
luttâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
luttèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
lutterai (first-person future indicative singular)
lutteras (future indicative second-person singular)
luttera (future indicative singular third-person)
lutterons (first-person future indicative plural)
lutterez (future indicative plural second-person)
lutteront (future indicative plural third-person)
lutterais (conditional first-person singular)
lutterais (conditional second-person singular)
lutterait (conditional singular third-person)
lutterions (conditional first-person plural)
lutteriez (conditional plural second-person)
lutteraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
lutte (first-person present singular subjunctive)
luttes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
lutte (present singular subjunctive third-person)
luttions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
luttiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
luttent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
luttasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
luttasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
luttât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
luttassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
luttassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
luttassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
lutte (imperative second-person singular)
luttons (first-person imperative plural)
luttez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Middle French luiter, from Old French luitier, from Latin luctārī.


trône

→ Romanian: tron

Inherited from Middle French throne, from Old French trosne, trone, from Latin thronus, from Ancient Greek θρόνος (thrónos, “chair”, “throne”).

der

Il s’est approché du trône respectueusement. ― He approached the throne reverently.

Le gamin est sur le trône.


cheminée

→ German: Cheminée

→ Persian: شومینه (šomine)

→ Romanian: șemineu

→ Turkish: şömine

From Old French cheminee, from Late Latin [camera] camīnāta, from Latin camīnus (“furnace”), from Ancient Greek κάμῑνος (kámīnos).
Unrelated to cheminer or chemin although an influence is possible.

(technology) a vertical vacuum forming in a gasifier

(theater) large pipe containing ropes that serves to control theater backdrops


annoncer

annoncer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
annonçant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
annoncé (participle past)
annonce (first-person indicative present singular)
annonces (indicative present second-person singular)
annonce (indicative present singular third-person)
annonçons (first-person indicative plural present)
annoncez (indicative plural present second-person)
annoncent (indicative plural present third-person)
annonçais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
annonçais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
annonçait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
annoncions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
annonciez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
annonçaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
annonçai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
annonças (historic indicative past second-person singular)
annonça (historic indicative past singular third-person)
annonçâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
annonçâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
annoncèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
annoncerai (first-person future indicative singular)
annonceras (future indicative second-person singular)
annoncera (future indicative singular third-person)
annoncerons (first-person future indicative plural)
annoncerez (future indicative plural second-person)
annonceront (future indicative plural third-person)
annoncerais (conditional first-person singular)
annoncerais (conditional second-person singular)
annoncerait (conditional singular third-person)
annoncerions (conditional first-person plural)
annonceriez (conditional plural second-person)
annonceraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
annonce (first-person present singular subjunctive)
annonces (present second-person singular subjunctive)
annonce (present singular subjunctive third-person)
annoncions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
annonciez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
annoncent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
annonçasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
annonçasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
annonçât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
annonçassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
annonçassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
annonçassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
annonce (imperative second-person singular)
annonçons (first-person imperative plural)
annoncez (imperative plural second-person)
s'annoncer (infinitive)
s'être + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
s’annonçant (gerund participle present)
ayant (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
étant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
annoncé (participle past)
m’annonce (first-person indicative present singular)
t’annonces (indicative present second-person singular)
s’annonce (indicative present singular third-person)
nous annonçons (first-person indicative plural present)
vous annoncez (indicative plural present second-person)
s’annoncent (indicative plural present third-person)
m’annonçais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
t’annonçais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
s’annonçait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
nous annoncions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
vous annonciez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
s’annonçaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
m’annonçai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
t’annonças (historic indicative past second-person singular)
s’annonça (historic indicative past singular third-person)
nous annonçâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
vous annonçâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
s’annoncèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
m’annoncerai (first-person future indicative singular)
t’annonceras (future indicative second-person singular)
s’annoncera (future indicative singular third-person)
nous annoncerons (first-person future indicative plural)
vous annoncerez (future indicative plural second-person)
s’annonceront (future indicative plural third-person)
m’annoncerais (conditional first-person singular)
t’annoncerais (conditional second-person singular)
s’annoncerait (conditional singular third-person)
nous annoncerions (conditional first-person plural)
vous annonceriez (conditional plural second-person)
s’annonceraient (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’annonce (first-person present singular subjunctive)
t’annonces (present second-person singular subjunctive)
s’annonce (present singular subjunctive third-person)
nous annoncions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
vous annonciez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
s’annoncent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
m’annonçasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
t’annonçasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
s’annonçât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
nous annonçassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
vous annonçassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
s’annonçassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
annonce-toi (imperative second-person singular)
annonçons-nous (first-person imperative plural)
annoncez-vous (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Old French anoncier, from Latin adnūntiāre.


juif

Inherited from Middle French juif, backformation from Old French juive, juiue, feminine of juiu, from Latin iūdaeus, from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαῖος (Ioudaîos), from Hebrew יְהוּדִי (y'hudí).


petit juif

From petit (“small”) + juif (“Jew”). Allegedly the expression came from the time when most cloth merchants in France were Jewish, and would regularly hurt their arm on that spot against a bench while measuring fabric by wrapping it around an arm as an 'anthropomorphic' length measure, the aulne (compare ell).


avantage

→ Albanian: avantazh

→ Franco-Provençal: avantâjo

→ Greek: αβαντάζ (avantáz)

→ Polish: awantaż

→ Portuguese: vantagem

→ Romanian: avantaj

→ Spanish: ventaja

→ Turkish: avantaj

From Old French avantage. Derivable from avant + -age.


fraude

Inherited from Middle French and Old French fraude (13th c.), a borrowing from Latin fraus, fraudem.


Adolphe

a male given name, equivalent to English Adolph


Adrien

Borrowed from Latin Hadriānus, Adriānus.

a male given name, equivalent to English Adrian


Abélard

(rare) a male given name, equivalent to English Abelard


Abdoul

a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Abdul


Abdoulla

a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Abdullah


débutant

fr-adj

débutant (feminine débutante, masculine plural débutants, feminine plural débutantes)

débutante (feminine)
débutants (masculine plural)
débutantes (feminine plural)


monnaie

Inherited from Old French moneie, monoie, from Latin monēta. Compare English money.

Le dollar est la monnaie d’Australie.

The dollar is the currency of Australia.


papillon

→ Greek: παπιγιόν (papigión)

→ Romanian: papion

→ Turkish: papyon

From Old French papeillon (12th c.), byform of paveillon, whence the modern doublet pavillon (“pavilion”). Both from Latin pāpiliōnem. The form with recovered -p- may be semi-learned, but has also been explained as a native development due to onomatopoeia. Another possibility would be influence by a hypothetical Old French *parpeillon, from Vulgar Latin *parpiliōnem (cf. Occitan parpalhon). The swimming sense is a semantic loan from English.

Le grand papillon noir, c’est la coiffure du pays. Coiffure gracieuse. De larges rubans de soie noire ajustés en cocarde sur le front, […] derrière laquelle les cheveux tombent sur le dos en deux longues nattes.

(mechanics) Ellipsis of écrou papillon.; wing nut, butterfly nut

Le record du monde en nage papillon.

Nager le papillon.


tigresse

fr-noun

tigresse f (plural tigresses, masculine tigre)

(figuratively) a fierce, brave, jealous or passionate woman


témoin

témoin m (plural témoins, feminine (rare) témoignesse or (both nonstandard) témouine or témointe)

témoins (plural)
témoignesse (feminine rare)
témouine (feminine nonstandard)
témointe (feminine nonstandard)

Inherited from Middle French tesmoing, from Old French tesmoin, from Latin testimōnium. The same Latin noun was also borrowed into Old French as testimonie, testemoigne (whence English testimony); this has been lost in modern French.

témoin de navigation
témoin de navigation#French

(Internet, software) Ellipsis of témoin de navigation.


lanterne

→ Danish: lanterne

→ Dutch: lantaarn

→ Norwegian: lanterne

→ Romanian: lanternă

→ Swedish: lanterna


fouet

desctree

→ Catalan: fuet
→ English: fuet
→ Spanish: fuet

→ Italian: fuetto

→ Portuguese: fuê

From Middle French fouet, diminutive in -et of Old French fou (“beech”), from Latin fagus.
Since the morpheme boundary was no longer felt in Middle French, [u.ɛ] was contracted to [wɛ] and this later developed regularly to [wa] (as it did in oi, oe). The contemporary pronunciation was reinforced by the spelling and the desire to distinguish from foi, foie and fois.


vallée

Inherited from Middle French valee, from Old French valee, from val + -ée, from Latin vallis. Cf. also Medieval Latin valleta.


poursuivre

poursuivre (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
poursuivant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
poursuivi (participle past)
poursuis (first-person indicative present singular)
poursuis (indicative present second-person singular)
poursuit (indicative present singular third-person)
poursuivons (first-person indicative plural present)
poursuivez (indicative plural present second-person)
poursuivent (indicative plural present third-person)
poursuivais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
poursuivais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
poursuivait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
poursuivions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
poursuiviez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
poursuivaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
poursuivis (first-person historic indicative past singular)
poursuivis (historic indicative past second-person singular)
poursuivit (historic indicative past singular third-person)
poursuivîmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
poursuivîtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
poursuivirent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
poursuivrai (first-person future indicative singular)
poursuivras (future indicative second-person singular)
poursuivra (future indicative singular third-person)
poursuivrons (first-person future indicative plural)
poursuivrez (future indicative plural second-person)
poursuivront (future indicative plural third-person)
poursuivrais (conditional first-person singular)
poursuivrais (conditional second-person singular)
poursuivrait (conditional singular third-person)
poursuivrions (conditional first-person plural)
poursuivriez (conditional plural second-person)
poursuivraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
poursuive (first-person present singular subjunctive)
poursuives (present second-person singular subjunctive)
poursuive (present singular subjunctive third-person)
poursuivions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
poursuiviez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
poursuivent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
poursuivisse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
poursuivisses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
poursuivît (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
poursuivissions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
poursuivissiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
poursuivissent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
poursuis (imperative second-person singular)
poursuivons (first-person imperative plural)
poursuivez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Old French porsivre, poursivre, porsuir, poursuire, porsivir, from Vulgar Latin *prosequere (attested in Vulgar or early Medieval Latin as prosevere and prosequire), from Latin prosequi. Most of the other Romance cognates (as well as the Old French parsivre, parsuivre) derived from the related persequor (which influenced the Old French in meaning); compare Occitan persegre, Spanish perseguir, Italian perseguire.

to carry on, to continue what has been started


paisible

Inherited from Old French peisible. By surface analysis, pais (“peace”) + -ible.


Yvonne

a female given name, the feminine form of Yvon


supérieur

fr-adj

supérieur (feminine supérieure, masculine plural supérieurs, feminine plural supérieures)

supérieure (feminine)
supérieurs (masculine plural)
supérieures (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French superior, borrowed from Latin superior.

(mathematics) greater than or equal to. ≥, ⩾.


Luc

a male given name, equivalent to English Luke


désert

désert (feminine déserte, masculine plural déserts, feminine plural désertes)

déserte (feminine)
déserts (masculine plural)
désertes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French desert, borrowed from Latin dēsertus.


dénouement

→ English: dénouement (learned)

From dénouer (“to unknot”) + -ment, from Middle French desnouement, from the Old French verb desnoer (“to unknot”) + -ment, from the noun neu (“knot”), itself from Latin nōdus.


miroir

Inherited from Middle French miroir m, Old French mireor m. Equivalent to mirer + -oir.


Belge

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


œil pour œil, dent pour dent

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lyokoï-œil pour œil, dent pour dent.wav

Literally, “eye for eye, tooth for tooth”.

lit

eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth


mourant

fr-adj

mourant (feminine mourante, masculine plural mourants, feminine plural mourantes)

mourante (feminine)
mourants (masculine plural)
mourantes (feminine plural)


vulgaire

→ Danish: vulgær

→ Dutch: vulgair

→ German: vulgär

→ Norwegian Bokmål: vulgær

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: vulgær

→ Turkish: vülger

Borrowed from Latin vulgāris. Compare also Old and Middle French vulgal, inherited from a Vulgar Latin form *vulgālis.


rentrant

rentrant (feminine rentrante, masculine plural rentrants, feminine plural rentrantes)

rentrante (feminine)
rentrants (masculine plural)
rentrantes (feminine plural)


meurtre

From Middle French meurtre (“murder”) from Old French murtre, mordre (“murder”) (compare Medieval Latin murdrum (“murder”)), both from Frankish *murþar (“murder”) from Proto-Germanic *murþrą (“murder, killing, death”), from Proto-Indo-European *mrtro- (“murder, death”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”).
Akin to Old High German mord (“murder”) (German Mord), Old High German murdren (“to kill, murder”) (German mördern (“to murder”)), Old English morþor (“death, murder”), Old English myrþrian (“to murder”). More at murder.


timide

→ Louisiana Creole: timid

From Middle French timide, from Latin timidus.


drapeau

Haitian Creole: drapo

Louisiana Creole: drapo

From Old French drapel. By surface analysis, drap (“cloth”) + -eau (diminutive suffix).


osé

fr-adj

osé (feminine osée, masculine plural osés, feminine plural osées)

osée (feminine)
osés (masculine plural)
osées (feminine plural)


tenace

Learned borrowing from Latin tenāx. Compare inherited Old French tenais.


poste d'essence

fr-noun

poste d’essence f (plural postes d’essence)

poste d’ essence (canonical feminine)
postes d’essence (plural)


fourche

fourché

→ English: fourche, fourchee

Inherited from Old French furche, forche, from Latin furca (“pitchfork”).


VO

(initialism, film) "version originale" — original-language version (OV); a non-French-language film


fesser

fesser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
fessant (gerund participle present)
fessant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
fessé (participle past)
fessé (participle past)
fesse (first-person indicative present singular)
fesses (indicative present second-person singular)
fesse (indicative present singular third-person)
fessons (first-person indicative plural present)
fessons (first-person indicative plural present)
fessez (indicative plural present second-person)
fessez (indicative plural present second-person)
fessent (indicative plural present third-person)
fessais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
fessais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
fessais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
fessais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
fessait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
fessait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
fessions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
fessions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
fessiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
fessiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
fessaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
fessaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
fessai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
fessai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
fessas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
fessas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
fessa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
fessa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
fessâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
fessâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
fessâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
fessâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
fessèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
fessèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
fesserai (first-person future indicative singular)
fesserai (first-person future indicative singular)
fesseras (future indicative second-person singular)
fesseras (future indicative second-person singular)
fessera (future indicative singular third-person)
fessera (future indicative singular third-person)
fesserons (first-person future indicative plural)
fesserons (first-person future indicative plural)
fesserez (future indicative plural second-person)
fesserez (future indicative plural second-person)
fesseront (future indicative plural third-person)
fesseront (future indicative plural third-person)
fesserais (conditional first-person singular)
fesserais (conditional first-person singular)
fesserais (conditional second-person singular)
fesserais (conditional second-person singular)
fesserait (conditional singular third-person)
fesserait (conditional singular third-person)
fesserions (conditional first-person plural)
fesserions (conditional first-person plural)
fesseriez (conditional plural second-person)
fesseriez (conditional plural second-person)
fesseraient (conditional plural third-person)
fesseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
fesse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
fesses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
fesse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
fessions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
fessions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
fessiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
fessiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
fessent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
fessasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
fessasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
fessasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
fessasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
fessât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
fessât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
fessassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
fessassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
fessassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
fessassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
fessassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
fessassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
fesse (imperative second-person singular)
fessons (first-person imperative plural)
fessons (first-person imperative plural)
fessez (imperative plural second-person)
fessez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Middle French fesser, derived from Old French faisse, fece ( compare Old French faisser), derived from Latin fascia. The spelling and sense (originally "to strike with a rod") influenced by unrelated fesse (“buttock”)).
Compare also Late Latin fasciāre.

Quand les enfants se tiennent mal, leurs parents les fessent et tout ça se répète le lendemain.

When children misbehave, their parents spank them, then it all happens again the next day.


Jérémie

Haitian Creole: Jeremi

a male given name, equivalent to English Jeremy or Jeremiah


historique

Borrowed from Latin historicus (“historical”).


bâtiment

Inherited from Middle French bastiment, from Old French bastiment (“act of building, fortification”), from bastir (“to build, make; to sew”), from Vulgar Latin *bastīre, borrowed from Frankish *bastijan (“to sew, weave”).


bibliothèque

→ Belarusian: бібліятэ́ка (biblijatéka)

→ Bulgarian: библиотека (biblioteka)

→ Danish: bibliotek

desctree

→ Dutch: bibliotheek
Afrikaans: biblioteek
→ Indonesian: bibliotek

→ German: Bibliothek

→ Latvian: bibliotēka

→ Lithuanian: biblioteka

→ Lower Sorbian: biblioteka

→ Norwegian Bokmål: bibliotek

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: bibliotek

→ Polish: biblioteka

→ Russian: библиоте́ка (bibliotéka)

desc

→ Serbo-Croatian: библиоте́ка (bibliotéka)

→ Swedish: bibliotek

→ Turkish: bibliyotek

→ Ukrainian: бібліоте́ка (bibliotéka)

→ Upper Sorbian: biblioteka

→ Yiddish: ביבליאָטעק (biblyotek)

Inherited from Middle French bibliotheque, borrowed from Latin bibliothēca (“library”), originally from Ancient Greek βιβλιοθήκη (bibliothḗkē, “book-room”). Morphologically biblio- + -thèque.


Alphonse

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

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

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

a male given name, feminine equivalent Alphonsine


Alain

→ Armenian: Ալեն (Alen)

desc

→ Chinese: → 阿蘭 /阿兰 (Ālán) (transliteration)

First attested in Old French, from Old Breton Alan.

a male given name, equivalent to English Alan


saisir

saisir (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
saisissant (gerund participle present)
saisissant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
saisi (participle past)
saisi (participle past)
saisis (first-person indicative present singular)
saisis (first-person indicative present singular)
saisis (indicative present second-person singular)
saisis (indicative present second-person singular)
saisit (indicative present singular third-person)
saisit (indicative present singular third-person)
saisissons (first-person indicative plural present)
saisissons (first-person indicative plural present)
saisissez (indicative plural present second-person)
saisissez (indicative plural present second-person)
saisissent (indicative plural present third-person)
saisissent (indicative plural present third-person)
saisissais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
saisissais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
saisissais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
saisissais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
saisissait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
saisissait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
saisissions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
saisissions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
saisissiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
saisissiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
saisissaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
saisissaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
saisis (first-person historic indicative past singular)
saisis (first-person historic indicative past singular)
saisis (historic indicative past second-person singular)
saisis (historic indicative past second-person singular)
saisit (historic indicative past singular third-person)
saisit (historic indicative past singular third-person)
saisîmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
saisîmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
saisîtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
saisîtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
saisirent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
saisirent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
saisirai (first-person future indicative singular)
saisirai (first-person future indicative singular)
saisiras (future indicative second-person singular)
saisiras (future indicative second-person singular)
saisira (future indicative singular third-person)
saisira (future indicative singular third-person)
saisirons (first-person future indicative plural)
saisirons (first-person future indicative plural)
saisirez (future indicative plural second-person)
saisirez (future indicative plural second-person)
saisiront (future indicative plural third-person)
saisiront (future indicative plural third-person)
saisirais (conditional first-person singular)
saisirais (conditional first-person singular)
saisirais (conditional second-person singular)
saisirais (conditional second-person singular)
saisirait (conditional singular third-person)
saisirait (conditional singular third-person)
saisirions (conditional first-person plural)
saisirions (conditional first-person plural)
saisiriez (conditional plural second-person)
saisiriez (conditional plural second-person)
saisiraient (conditional plural third-person)
saisiraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
saisisse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
saisisse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
saisisses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
saisisses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
saisisse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
saisisse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
saisissions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
saisissions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
saisissiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
saisissiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
saisissent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
saisissent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
saisisse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
saisisse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
saisisses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
saisisses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
saisît (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
saisît (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
saisissions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
saisissions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
saisissiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
saisissiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
saisissent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
saisissent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
saisis (imperative second-person singular)
saisis (imperative second-person singular)
saisissons (first-person imperative plural)
saisissons (first-person imperative plural)
saisissez (imperative plural second-person)
saisissez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Middle French saisir, from Old French saisir, seisir (whence English seize), from Early Medieval Latin sacīre (“lay claim to, take seisin”), from Frankish *sakjan (“to sue, litigate; accuse”). Compare Old English sacian (“to strive, brawl”), Faroese saka (“to hurt; accuse”), obsolete English sake (“strife”).
Alternatively Old French saisir, seisir may be borrowed from Old High German *sazjan and thus cognate to German setzen (“to set”) and Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (satjan).

der

(computing) to type (something) into a computer; to input

(accounting) to record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.

(law) to vest a court with a case; to refer a matter to a court


péché

Inherited from Middle French peché, from Old French pechié, from Latin peccātum.

péché capital

péché mignon

péché originel

péché mortel

péché philosophique

péché véniel


humain

From Middle French, from Old French humain, umain, from Latin humanus (“of or belonging to a man, human, humane”), from homo (“man, human”).


humain

fr-adj

humain (feminine humaine, masculine plural humains, feminine plural humaines)

humaine (feminine)
humains (masculine plural)
humaines (feminine plural)


juger

juger (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
jugeant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
jugé (participle past)
juge (first-person indicative present singular)
juges (indicative present second-person singular)
juge (indicative present singular third-person)
jugeons (first-person indicative plural present)
jugez (indicative plural present second-person)
jugent (indicative plural present third-person)
jugeais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
jugeais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
jugeait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
jugions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
jugiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
jugeaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
jugeai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
jugeas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
jugea (historic indicative past singular third-person)
jugeâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
jugeâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
jugèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
jugerai (first-person future indicative singular)
jugeras (future indicative second-person singular)
jugera (future indicative singular third-person)
jugerons (first-person future indicative plural)
jugerez (future indicative plural second-person)
jugeront (future indicative plural third-person)
jugerais (conditional first-person singular)
jugerais (conditional second-person singular)
jugerait (conditional singular third-person)
jugerions (conditional first-person plural)
jugeriez (conditional plural second-person)
jugeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
juge (first-person present singular subjunctive)
juges (present second-person singular subjunctive)
juge (present singular subjunctive third-person)
jugions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
jugiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
jugent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
jugeasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
jugeasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
jugeât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
jugeassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
jugeassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
jugeassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
juge (imperative second-person singular)
jugeons (first-person imperative plural)
jugez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Old French juger, from Latin iūdicāre (“pass judgement”).


méchant

fr-noun

méchant m (plural méchants, feminine méchante)

From the present participle of the Old French verb mescheoir, from *mé- + cheoir (choir). Compare also mauvais.


golfeur

golfeur m (plural golfeurs, feminine golfeuse)


RTS

Radio Télévision Suisse
w:Radio Télévision Suisse

(broadcasting) Initialism of Radio Télévision Suisse, the Swiss-French public service broadcaster


Alban

a male given name, equivalent to English Alban


Léon

a male given name, equivalent to English Leo or Leon


hippocampe

Learned borrowing from Latin hippocampus, from Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος (hippókampos), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + κάμπος (kámpos, “sea-monster”).


godemiché

a dildo in the shape of a penis with a scrotum


godemichet

From Latin gaude (“please”) mihi (“me”).


fourchette sternale

fr-noun

fourchette sternale f (plural fourchettes sternales)


appeler

appeler (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
appelant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
appelé (participle past)
appelle (first-person indicative present singular)
appelles (indicative present second-person singular)
appelle (indicative present singular third-person)
appelons (first-person indicative plural present)
appelez (indicative plural present second-person)
appellent (indicative plural present third-person)
appelais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
appelais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
appelait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
appelions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
appeliez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
appelaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
appelai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
appelas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
appela (historic indicative past singular third-person)
appelâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
appelâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
appelèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
appellerai (first-person future indicative singular)
appelleras (future indicative second-person singular)
appellera (future indicative singular third-person)
appellerons (first-person future indicative plural)
appellerez (future indicative plural second-person)
appelleront (future indicative plural third-person)
appellerais (conditional first-person singular)
appellerais (conditional second-person singular)
appellerait (conditional singular third-person)
appellerions (conditional first-person plural)
appellerions (conditional first-person plural)
appelleriez (conditional plural second-person)
appelleriez (conditional plural second-person)
appelleraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
appelle (first-person present singular subjunctive)
appelles (present second-person singular subjunctive)
appelle (present singular subjunctive third-person)
appelions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
appeliez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
appellent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
appelasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
appelasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
appelât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
appelassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
appelassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
appelassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
appelle (imperative second-person singular)
appelons (first-person imperative plural)
appelez (imperative plural second-person)
s'appeler (infinitive)
s'être + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
s’appelant (gerund participle present)
ayant (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
étant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
appelé (participle past)
m’appelle (first-person indicative present singular)
t’appelles (indicative present second-person singular)
s’appelle (indicative present singular third-person)
nous appelons (first-person indicative plural present)
vous appelez (indicative plural present second-person)
s’appellent (indicative plural present third-person)
m’appelais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
t’appelais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
s’appelait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
nous appelions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
vous appeliez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
s’appelaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
m’appelai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
t’appelas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
s’appela (historic indicative past singular third-person)
nous appelâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
vous appelâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
s’appelèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
m’appellerai (first-person future indicative singular)
t’appelleras (future indicative second-person singular)
s’appellera (future indicative singular third-person)
nous appellerons (first-person future indicative plural)
vous appellerez (future indicative plural second-person)
s’appelleront (future indicative plural third-person)
m’appellerais (conditional first-person singular)
t’appellerais (conditional second-person singular)
s’appellerait (conditional singular third-person)
nous appellerions (conditional first-person plural)
nous appellerions (conditional first-person plural)
vous appelleriez (conditional plural second-person)
vous appelleriez (conditional plural second-person)
s’appelleraient (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’appelle (first-person present singular subjunctive)
t’appelles (present second-person singular subjunctive)
s’appelle (present singular subjunctive third-person)
nous appelions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
vous appeliez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
s’appellent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
m’appelasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
t’appelasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
s’appelât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
nous appelassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
vous appelassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
s’appelassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
appelle-toi (imperative second-person singular)
appelons-nous (first-person imperative plural)
appelez-vous (imperative plural second-person)

Borrowed from Latin appellāre (“to address, to call by name”).

bor+

Appelle-moi ce soir.


stylo

→ Dutch: stylo

→ Greek: στυλό (styló)

→ Khmer: ស្ទីឡូ (stiilou)


tarte

→ German: Tarte

→ Italian: tarta

→ Greek: τάρτα (tárta)

→ Japanese: タルト (taruto)

→ Korean: 타르트 (tareuteu)

→ Malay: tat

→ Persian: تارت (târt)

→ Polish: tarte

→ Portuguese: tarte

→ Russian: тарт (tart)

→ Swedish: tårta
→ Finnish: torttu

Variant of tourte, from Late Latin torta.


Ys

1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques (1993 edition), Plon, chapter IX, page 89; translated 1973 by John and Doreen Weightman as Tristes Tropiques (2011 edition), Penguin Books

The bay at Rio eats right into the heart of the city: you land in the centre, as if the other half, like the fabled town of Ys, had already been engulfed by waves.

Rio est mordu par sa baie jusqu’au cœur; on débarque en plein centre, comme si l’autre moitié, nouvelle Ys, avait été déjà dévorée par les flots.


effrayé

(heraldry) of a quadruped, especially a horse: represented standing on its hind legs, and giving the impression of beating the air with its front legs


requin

→ English: requin

Haitian Creole: reken

→ Romanian: rechin

→ Polish: rekin

1539; Norman reflex of Old French reschin (12th c.), deverbal from reschignier (“to grimace while baring teeth”), rekigner (“to make an ugly face”), from Frankish *kīnan (“to split open”).

deverbal

(derogatory) a person profiting from others by treachery


Denis

→ Czech: Denis

⇒ Czech: Denisa (feminine)

→ Dutch: Dennis

→ German: Denis, Dennis

→ Hungarian: Dénes

→ Brazilian Portuguese: Dênis

→ Romanian: Denis

⇒ Romanian: Denisa (feminine)

→ Russian: Денис (Denis)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: Денис

Latin script: Denis

→ Slovak: Denis

⇒ Slovak: Denisa (feminine)

→ Slovene: Denis

→ Ukrainian: Денис (Denys)

Inherited from Latin Dionȳsius, borrowed from Ancient Greek Διονύσιος (Dionúsios).

a male given name, equivalent to English Dennis; originally given in honor of a third century bishop of Paris, the patron saint of France


smithsonite

fr-noun

smithsonite f (countable and uncountable, plural smithsonites)


paso doble

paso doble m (plural paso dobles or pasos dobles)

paso dobles (plural)
pasos dobles (plural)

Borrowed from Spanish pasodoble, from paso (“step”) + doble (“double”).


hémisphère

→ Romanian: emisferă


rat d'hôtel

rat d’ hôtel (canonical masculine)
rats d’hôtel (plural)


entrepôt

Deverbal from entreposer (“to store goods in a warehouse”), with the ending influenced by dépôt (“store, warehouse, depot”).

deverbal

Near-synonyms: dépôt, magasin


Georges

→ Dutch: Sjors

→ Greek: Ζωρζ (Zorz)

→ Swabian: Schorsch

LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-maison du Petit-Saint-Georges.wav

From Latin Geōrgius, from Ancient Greek Γεώργιος (Geṓrgios).

a male given name, equivalent to English George


phimosis

From Ancient Greek φίμωσις (phímōsis, “muzzling”).


aine

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *inguinem, a masculine form of the Classical Latin neuter noun inguen.


morceau

→ English: morceau

Inherited from Middle French morceau, from Old French morsel (whence also English morsel), from Early Medieval Latin morsellum (“a bit, a little piece”), diminutive of Latin morsum (“a bit”), neuter of morsus, past participle of mordeō, mordēre (“bite, nibble, gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- (“to rub, wipe; to pack, rob”).

der

manger le morceau


folie

Inherited from Middle French folie, from Old French folie, from fol + -ie.


légume

English: legume

Borrowed from Latin legūmen (cf. older form lesgum); was once feminine and became masculine by the 17th century. Replaced the Old French leün, which was inherited from the same source. Compare Italian and Portuguese legume, Spanish legumbre.

Manger des légumes est très bon pour la santé.

Eating vegetables is very good for one's health.

Le fruit de la vesce est un légume au sens strict.

The seed of vetch is a legume in the strict sense of the word.


ronde

(dance) a traditional dance where the dancers form a ring and move laterally with the music


planète

From Latin planēta, from Ancient Greek πλανήτης (planḗtēs, “wanderer, planet”), from πλανάω (planáō, “to wander”).


planète naine

fr-noun

planète naine f (plural planètes naines)


planétologue

planétologue m or f by sense (plural planétologues)


circo

Une circo de perdue, une de gagnée, et un pari manqué pour le RN, qui espérait décrocher la dernière des circonscriptions qui lui avait échappé en 2022 pour s’arroger les cinq fauteuils vauclusiens dans l’Hémicycle.

2024 July 8, Romain Cantenot, “Le RN perd Avignon mais conforte son ancrage”, in La Provence, page 7:

(colloquial, politics) Clipping of circonscription (“electoral district”).


Vénus

→ Persian: ونوس (venus)

Comme l’ardant brandon Vénus

Guillaume de Lorris, Le Roman de la Rose 33.1

Like a burning torch Venus
helped the Lover more than anything


armée

→ Norwegian Bokmål: armé

Inherited from Middle French armee, from the feminine past participle of the verb armer; first attested in French circa 1370 (except in Anglo-Norman), borrowed through Anglo-Norman from Medieval Latin armāta (“armed force”), the neuter plural form of the past participle of Latin armō (“to arm”), from arma (“arms, weapons”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmos (“fitting”), from the root *h₂er- (“to join”). Doublet of armada, a borrowing from Spanish. Displaced Latin exercitus (“army”).

Une doctrine militaire est constituée des principes fondamentaux selon lesquels l’armée ou certaines de ses parties accomplissent leurs tâches pour atteindre les objectifs nationaux.

Military doctrine is made up of fundamental principles according to which the armed forces, or certain parts of them, perform their duties in order to achieve national objectives.


démolir

démolir (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
démolissant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
démoli (participle past)
démolis (first-person indicative present singular)
démolis (indicative present second-person singular)
démolit (indicative present singular third-person)
démolissons (first-person indicative plural present)
démolissez (indicative plural present second-person)
démolissent (indicative plural present third-person)
démolissais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
démolissais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
démolissait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
démolissions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
démolissiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
démolissaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
démolis (first-person historic indicative past singular)
démolis (historic indicative past second-person singular)
démolit (historic indicative past singular third-person)
démolîmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
démolîtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
démolirent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
démolirai (first-person future indicative singular)
démoliras (future indicative second-person singular)
démolira (future indicative singular third-person)
démolirons (first-person future indicative plural)
démolirez (future indicative plural second-person)
démoliront (future indicative plural third-person)
démolirais (conditional first-person singular)
démolirais (conditional second-person singular)
démolirait (conditional singular third-person)
démolirions (conditional first-person plural)
démoliriez (conditional plural second-person)
démoliraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
démolisse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
démolisses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
démolisse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
démolissions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
démolissiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
démolissent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
démolisse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
démolisses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
démolît (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
démolissions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
démolissiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
démolissent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
démolis (imperative second-person singular)
démolissons (first-person imperative plural)
démolissez (imperative plural second-person)

Borrowed from Latin dēmōlīrī (“to demolish”).