front

→ Brazilian Portuguese: fronte

→ Bulgarian: фронт (front)

→ Czech: front, fronta

desctree

→ German: Front
→ Hungarian: front
→ Russian: фронт (front)
→ Bashkir: фронт (front)

→ Irish: fronta

→ Macedonian: фронт (front)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: front

→ Polish: front

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Latin script: frȍnt

Cyrillic script: фро̏нт

→ Swedish: front

Inherited from Old French front, from Latin frontem, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰron-t-, from *bʰren- (“project”).


dent

Inherited from Middle French dent f, with change of gender from Old French dent m, from Latin dentem m, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dénts, *h₃dónts.

à cheval donné on ne regarde pas les dents


lunettes

Saint Dominican Creole French: linettes
Haitian Creole: linèt


cil

Inherited from Old French cil, from Latin cilium.


roulette

→ Catalan: ruleta

→ Czech: ruleta

→ Danish: roulette, roulet

→ English: roulette

→ Galician: ruleta

→ German: Roulette (see there for further descendants)

→ Italian: roulette

→ Japanese: ルーレット

→ Norwegian Bokmål: rulett

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: rulett

→ Portuguese: roleta

→ Spanish: ruleta

→ Swedish: roulett

→ Thai: รูเล็ตต์ (ruu-lèt)


nez

Inherited from Middle French nez, from Old French nés, from Latin nāsus, from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s. Compare Italian naso.

ne pas regarder plus loin que le bout de son nez

ne pas voir plus loin que le bout de son nez

se voir comme le nez au milieu de la figure

se voir comme le nez au milieu du visage


pont

Haitian Creole: pon

→ Vietnamese: boong

Inherited from Old French pont, from Latin pontem.


dentifrice

Learned borrowing from Latin dentifricium.


fraise

→ Arabic: فَرَّاز (farrāz)

→ Dutch: frees

→ English: fraise

→ German: Fräse

→ Belarusian: фрэ́за (fréza)

→ Czech: fréza, frézka

desc

→ Bulgarian: фре́за (fréza), фрез (frez)

→ Macedonian: фреза (freza)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: фре́за

Latin script: fréza

→ Slovak: fréz, fréza, frézka

→ Slovene: frẹ̄za

→ Ukrainian: фре́за (fréza)

⇒ German: Fräser

desctree

⇒ German: Fräsmaschine
→ Bulgarian: фрезмаши́на (frezmašína)
→ Russian: фрезмаши́на (frezmašína)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
→ Cyrillic script: фрезмашина
→ Latin script: frezmašina

→ Polish: frez

→ Portuguese: fresa

→ Romanian: freză

→ Russian: фреза́ (frezá)

→ Spanish: fresa

→ Swedish: fräs

→ Ottoman Turkish: فرازه (freze)
Turkish: freze

Related to fraiser, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *fresāre, from Latin fresum, past participle of frendō, or from a derived root *fresa. Compare Italian and Spanish fresa.


couronne

Inherited from Old French corone, inherited from Latin corōna, from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē).


monocle

→ Greek: μονόκλ (monókl)

→ Dutch: monocle

→ English: monocle

From Late Latin monoculus (“one-eyed”), from mono- (“single”) + oculus (“eye”).


oreille

Mauritian Creole: zorey

desc

Réunion Creole French: zoreilles, z'oreilles, zorey

French: zoreille, zorey

desctree

Saint Dominican Creole French: z'oreille
Haitian Creole: zòrèy

Seychellois Creole: zorey

→ Esperanto: orelo

Inherited from Middle French oreille, from Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws. Cognate with Catalan and Galician orella; Portuguese orelha; Italian orecchio; Occitan aurelha; Romanian ureche; and Spanish oreja. Compare zoreille, zorey.

chien hargneux a toujours l’oreille déchirée

rentrer par une oreille et ressortir par l’autre


pince-nez

→ Catalan: pinçanàs (calque)

→ Russian: пенсне́ n (pensnɛ́)

→ Swedish: pincené c


menton

→ English: menton

→ Esperanto: mentono
Ido: mentono

→ Spanish: mentón

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

der

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

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

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

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

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


sourcil

Inherited from Middle French sourcil, from Old French sourcil, sorcil, inherited from Latin supercilium. "sour-" is an older form of sur (over, above) while "cil" means "eyelash" in French. Thus, "sourcil" literally means "above eyelash."


minauder

minauder (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
minaudant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
minaudé (participle past)
minaude (first-person indicative present singular)
minaudes (indicative present second-person singular)
minaude (indicative present singular third-person)
minaudons (first-person indicative plural present)
minaudez (indicative plural present second-person)
minaudent (indicative plural present third-person)
minaudais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
minaudais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
minaudait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
minaudions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
minaudiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
minaudaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
minaudai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
minaudas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
minauda (historic indicative past singular third-person)
minaudâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
minaudâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
minaudèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
minauderai (first-person future indicative singular)
minauderas (future indicative second-person singular)
minaudera (future indicative singular third-person)
minauderons (first-person future indicative plural)
minauderez (future indicative plural second-person)
minauderont (future indicative plural third-person)
minauderais (conditional first-person singular)
minauderais (conditional second-person singular)
minauderait (conditional singular third-person)
minauderions (conditional first-person plural)
minauderiez (conditional plural second-person)
minauderaient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
minaude (first-person present singular subjunctive)
minaudes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
minaude (present singular subjunctive third-person)
minaudions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
minaudiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
minaudent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
minaudasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
minaudasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
minaudât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
minaudassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
minaudassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
minaudassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
minaude (imperative second-person singular)
minaudons (first-person imperative plural)
minaudez (imperative plural second-person)

Borrowed from Norman [Term?], from mine, from Breton min (“beak, muzzle”).


sourire

Inherited from Middle French soubrire (silent b), from Old French sorrirre, from Vulgar Latin *subrīdĕre, from Latin subrīdēre.


sourire

sourire (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
souriant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
souri (participle past)
souris (first-person indicative present singular)
souris (indicative present second-person singular)
sourit (indicative present singular third-person)
sourions (first-person indicative plural present)
souriez (indicative plural present second-person)
sourient (indicative plural present third-person)
souriais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
souriais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
souriait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
souriions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
souriiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
souriaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
souris (first-person historic indicative past singular)
souris (historic indicative past second-person singular)
sourit (historic indicative past singular third-person)
sourîmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
sourîtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
sourirent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
sourirai (first-person future indicative singular)
souriras (future indicative second-person singular)
sourira (future indicative singular third-person)
sourirons (first-person future indicative plural)
sourirez (future indicative plural second-person)
souriront (future indicative plural third-person)
sourirais (conditional first-person singular)
sourirais (conditional second-person singular)
sourirait (conditional singular third-person)
souririons (conditional first-person plural)
souririez (conditional plural second-person)
souriraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
sourie (first-person present singular subjunctive)
souries (present second-person singular subjunctive)
sourie (present singular subjunctive third-person)
souriions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
souriiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
sourient (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sourisse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
sourisses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
sourît (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
sourissions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
sourissiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
sourissent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
souris (imperative second-person singular)
sourions (first-person imperative plural)
souriez (imperative plural second-person)

le beurre, l’argent du beurre et le sourire de la crémière


collet

→ Portuguese: colete

Inherited from Middle French collet. By surface analysis, col + -et.


lèvre

Inherited from Middle French lévre, from Old French levre, earlier lavras (plural) (ca. 980), from Vulgar Latin labra, originally a neuter plural of Latin labrum, from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang down, droop”). An Old and Middle French variant, leffre, may have blended with Old High German leffur (“lip”).


carie

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


moue

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

der

– 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.


paupière

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *palpetra, variant of Latin palpebra.


brosse à dents

fr-noun

brosse à dents f (plural brosses à dents)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Pamputt-brosse à dents.wav


bésicles

(plural only, dated or colloquial) Alternative spelling of besicles


besicles

From Old French bericles, from beryl, which served to make magnifying glasses.

(plural only, dated or colloquial) spectacles, glasses


lunettes de soleil

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


cure-dent

→ Turkish: kürdan


mouille

(vulgar) vaginal secretion, vaginal lubrication


dent de lait

milk tooth (tooth of the first set of teeth)


clin d'œil

clin d’œil m (plural clins d’œil or clins d’yeux)

clin d’ œil (canonical masculine)
clins d’œil (plural)
clins d’yeux (plural)


cache-œil

cache-œil m (plural cache-œil or cache-œils)


dent de sagesse

dent de sagesse f (plural dents de sagesse)

Calque of Latin dēns sapientiae, itself a calque of Ancient Greek σωφρονιστήρ (sōphronistḗr).


bajoue

From joue. The first element is probably taken from balèvre.


froncement

From froncer (“to scowl”) + -ment (forms nouns from verbs).

af

scowl (the wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning)


fil dentaire

dental floss (floss used to clean the areas between the teeth)


oculaire

Borrowed from Latin oculāris, from oculus (whence œil).

un témoin oculaire

une saccade oculaire


faux-palais

retainer (a device that holds teeth in position after orthodontic treatment)


barbe de trois jours

fr-noun

barbe de trois jours f (plural barbes de trois jours)

designer stubble (fashionable short growth of male facial hair)


en coin

un sourire en coin

from the corner, from the side (such as from that of a smirk) (of a smile or look)


tarin

fr-adj

tarin (feminine tarine, masculine plural tarins, feminine plural tarines)

tarine (feminine)
tarins (masculine plural)
tarines (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French terin, tarins, of obscure origin.


lentille de contact

fr-noun

lentille de contact f (plural lentilles de contact)

LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-lentille de contact.wav


tête d'enterrement

tête d’enterrement f (plural têtes d’enterrement)

tête d’ enterrement (canonical feminine)
têtes d’enterrement (plural)

tirer une tête d’enterrement, faire une tête d’enterrement

(informal, figuratively) long face, gloomy expression


tronche d'enterrement

tronche d’enterrement f (plural têtes d’enterrement)

tronche d’ enterrement (canonical feminine)
têtes d’enterrement (plural)

/tʁɔ̃ʃ d‿ɑ̃.tɛʁ.mɑ̃/

tirer une tronche d’enterrement, faire une tronche d’enterrement


gueule d'enterrement

gueule d’enterrement f (plural têtes d’enterrement)

gueule d’ enterrement (canonical feminine)
têtes d’enterrement (plural)

/ɡœl d‿ɑ̃.tɛʁ.mɑ̃/

(very informal, figuratively) long face (gloomy expression)


lunettes de vue

prescription glasses
prescription glasses


sourire jusqu'aux oreilles

smile from ear to ear
smile from ear to ear

grin like a Cheshire cat
grin like a Cheshire cat

(figuratively) to smile from ear to ear, to grin like a Cheshire cat


binocles-ciseaux

binocles-ciseaux m (plural binocles-ciseaux)