hymne

→ Romanian: imn n

Inherited from Middle French hymne, hynne, from Old French ymne m or f, from Latin hymnus m, from Ancient Greek ὕμνος m (húmnos).
Formerly pronounced /in/ (as still in automne, damner); the modern pronunciation under influence of the spelling.


plan

→ Central Franconian: Plan

Hunsrik: Plaan

→ German: Plan

→ Norwegian Bokmål: plan

→ Luxembourgish: Plang

→ Ottoman Turkish: پلان
Turkish: plan

→ Polish: plan
→ Kashubian: plan

From earlier plant, derived from the verb planter, or from Latin planus. Doublet of plant or plain, depending on which etymology is right.


dragon

fr-noun

dragon m (plural dragons, feminine dragonne)

→ Albanian: dragun

→ Armenian: դրագուն (dragun)

→ Azerbaijani: draqun

→ Bashkir: драгун (dragun)

→ Belarusian: драгун (drahun)

→ Breton: dragun

→ Bulgarian: драгун (dragun)

→ Catalan: dragon

→ Cebuano: dragun

→ Crimean Tatar: dragun

→ Czech: dragoun

→ Danish: dragon

→ English: dragoon

→ Esperanto: dragono

→ Estonian: tragun

→ Gagauz: dragun

→ Georgian: დრაგუნი (draguni)

→ German: Dragoner
→ Dutch: dragonder

→ Greek: δραγόνος (dragónos)

→ Hebrew: דרגון (dragún)

→ Hungarian: dragonyos

→ Icelandic: dragoní

→ Ido: dragono

→ Irish: dragún

→ Japanese: ドラグーン (doragūn)

→ Kazakh: драгун (dragun)

→ Kyrgyz: драгун (dragun)

→ Latvian: dragūns

→ Lithuanian: dragūnas

→ Macedonian: драгун (dragun)

→ Mongolian: драгун (dragun)

→ Norwegian: dragon

→ Occitan: dragon

→ Polish: dragon

→ Romanian: dragon

→ Russian: драгун (dragun)

→ Carpathian Rusyn: драґун (dragun)

→ Serbo-Croatian: dragun / драгун

→ Slovak: dragún

→ Slovene: dragonec

→ Spanish: dragón

→ Swedish: dragon
→ Finnish: rakuuna

→ Tagalog: dragun

→ Tajik: драгун (dragun)

→ Tatar: драгун (drağun)

→ Turkish: dragon

→ Turkmen: dragun

→ Ukrainian: драгун (drahun)

→ Uzbek: dragun

→ Waray-Waray: dragun

→ Welsh: dragŵn

→ Zazaki: dragun

Inherited from Old French dragon, perhaps borrowed from Old Occitan dragon, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Doublet of drac.


gnome

→ Danish: gnom

→ English: gnome

→ Norwegian Bokmål: gnom

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: gnom

From New Latin gnomus, not attested classically. .


soul

fr-adj

soul (feminine soule, masculine plural souls, feminine plural soules)

soule (feminine)
souls (masculine plural)
soules (feminine plural)

post-1990 spelling of soûl, itself an alternative form of saoul (“drunk”)


porno

(countable, informal) porn movie, skin flick, blue movie


vampire

→ Armenian: վամպիր (vampir)

→ Asturian: vampiru

→ Belarusian: вампір (vampir)

→ Catalan: vampir

→ Czech: vampýr

→ English: vampire (see there for further descendants)

→ Galician: vampiro

→ Georgian: ვამპირი (vamṗiri)

→ Greek: βαμπίρ (vampír)

→ Italian: vampiro

→ Malagasy: vampira

→ Occitan: vampire

→ Romanian: vampir

→ Russian: вампир (vampir) (see there for further descendants)

→ Slovak: vampír

→ Spanish: vampiro, vampira

→ Basque: banpiro

→ Cebuano: bampira

→ Tagalog: bampira

→ Waray-Waray: bampira

→ Ottoman Turkish: وامپیر (vampir)

Turkish: vampir

→ Ukrainian: вампір (vampir)

→ Hebrew: ערפד (arpad)


lycanthrope

fr-noun

lycanthrope m or f by sense (plural lycanthropes)

From Ancient Greek λυκάνθρωπος (lukánthrōpos, “human-wolf”).


jazz

Borrowed from English jazz. The compound jazband is attested in a 1918 copy of Le Matin.


kraken

Borrowed from Norwegian kraken (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry), definite singular of krake (“sea monster”) (Bokmål entry; Nynorsk entry), both from Old Norse kraki (“sea monster”, literally “something twisted”), from Proto-Germanic *krankaz (“crooked”).


Force

Coined by American filmmaker George Lucas

coin

(Star Wars) force (always proceeded with la), the invisible omnipresent energy that the Jedi and the Sith wield in Star Wars


chorus

Borrowed from Latin chorus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós). Doublet of chœur.

Willie Smith prend une série de chorus incroyables sur Hocus Pocus, tirant de son instrument des notes suraiguës qui n’existent pas sur le doigté officiel du saxophone alto.

1947, Hugues Panassié, Cinq mois à New-York, Éditions Corrêa, page 89:

(jazz music) improvisation by a soloist for part of all of a theme


loup-garou

fr-noun

loup-garou m (plural loups-garous, feminine louve-garou)

loups-garous (plural)
louve-garou (feminine)

→ English: loup-garou

Inherited from Old French leu garoul, a pleonastic compound of leu (“wolf”) + garoul (“werewolf”); the latter from garulf, from Frankish *werawulf. Equivalent to loup + -garou.


troll

From Swedish troll, from Old Norse troll, from Proto-Germanic *truzlą, from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂-.


troll

troll (inflammatory poster on the Internet)


fantasy

Unadapted borrowing from English fantasy. Doublet of fantaisie.


polka

→ Ottoman Turkish: پولقه (polka)

Turkish: polka


raï

→ English: raï

→ German: Raï

Borrowed from Algerian Arabic راي (rāy, “opinion”), from Arabic رَأْي (raʔy, “opinion”).

bor+

(music) raï (form of music originating from Algeria)


zombi

fr-noun

zombi m (plural zombis, feminine zombie)

Attested 1832, but the 1765 Encyclopédie (t. 11, p. 82a, s.v. nègre) already has zambys «dieux esprits des tribus africaines».
Borrowed from Haitian Creole zonbi, from a Bantu language.


reggae

From Jamaican Creole rege (“rags; a quarrel”), see rag.


EDM

electronic dance music
electronic dance music#English

(music) Initialism of electronic dance music.


klingon

fr-adj

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

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


griffon

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

inh+

(mythology) griffin (legendary creature)


triton

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


burlesque

→ English: burlesque

→ German: burlesk

→ Romanian: burlesc

→ Turkish: burlesk

Borrowed from Italian burlesco (“parodic”).


documenteur

Blend of documentaire (“documentary”) + menteur (“liar”), by analogy with the formation of the English term mockumentary


hippocampe

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


figurant

fr-noun

figurant m (plural figurants, feminine figurante)

→ Dutch: figurant


goule

Borrowed from Arabic غُول (ḡūl, “ghoul, demon”).


goule

From Old French goule which evolved into Modern French gueule, but has survived as a regional or informal variant. Compare Picard goule.

(slang, dialectal, regional) Nonstandard form of gueule (“face; mouth”).


philtre

Borrowed from Latin philtrum, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek φίλτρον (phíltron). Unrelated to filtre.

Dans quel philtre, dans quel vin, dans quelle tisane, / Noierons-nous ce vieil ennemi, / Destructeur et gourmand comme la courtisane, / Patient comme la fourmi?

1857, Charles Baudelaire, “L'Irréparable”, in John Collings Squire, transl., Les Fleurs du mal:

What wine, what drug, what philtre known of man / Will drown this ancient foe, / Ruthless and ravenous as a courtesan, / Sure as an ant, and slow?

philter (a kind of potion, charm, or drug intended to make the drinker fall in love with the giver)


spectre

Dans la nuit, il vit un spectre apparaître.


gobelin

Borrowed from Old Northern French gobelin (compare Norman goubelin, Walloon gobelin), possibly a blend of Old Dutch *kobeholdo (“goblin”) (compare Dutch kabouter, German Kobold) and Late Latin cobalus (“mountain sprite”), from Ancient Greek κόβαλος (kóbalos, “rogue, knave; goblin”).


navet

From Old French nef (“turnip”) + -et, from Latin nāpus.

Quel navet, ce film !

(colloquial, film) a very bad movie; a turkey


compas

→ Portuguese: compasso

→ Burmese: ကွန်ပါ (kwanpa)

→ Romanian: compas

Inherited from Old French compas, from Latin com- + passus.

(music) a genre of modern Haitian music descended from the traditional style méringue


merengue

Borrowed from Spanish merengue, itself borrowed from French meringue.


orque

Borrowed from English orc. Doublet of ogre.


fantaisie

→ Persian: فانتزی (fântezi)

→ Romanian: fantezie

→ Turkish: fantezi

→ Vietnamese: phăng-tê-di

Inherited from Old French fantaisie, fantasie (“imagination”), from Latin phantasia, from Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía), of φαντάζεσθαι (phantázesthai), from φαντός (phantós, “visible”), from φαίνεσθαι (phaínesthai, “appear”). Doublet of fantasy.

fantasy (something created by the imagination)


centaure

fr-noun

centaure m (plural centaures, feminine centauresse)

centaures (plural)
centauresse (feminine)


chimère

(biology) chimera (organism with cells from two zygotes)


policier

policier m (plural policiers, feminine policière)


licorne

From Old French unicorne via reanalysis as une icorne (with indefinite article), followed by further reanalysis of the new definite form l'icorne, or from Italian alicorno, variant of liocorno.


régicide

régicide m or f by sense (plural régicides)


petite souris

petite souris f (usually uncountable, plural petites souris)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see petite, souris.


terraformer

terraformer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
terraformant (gerund participle present)
terraformant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
terraformé (participle past)
terraformé (participle past)
terraforme (first-person indicative present singular)
terraforme (first-person indicative present singular)
terraformes (indicative present second-person singular)
terraformes (indicative present second-person singular)
terraforme (indicative present singular third-person)
terraforme (indicative present singular third-person)
terraformons (first-person indicative plural present)
terraformons (first-person indicative plural present)
terraformez (indicative plural present second-person)
terraformez (indicative plural present second-person)
terraforment (indicative plural present third-person)
terraforment (indicative plural present third-person)
terraformais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
terraformais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
terraformais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
terraformais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
terraformait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
terraformait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
terraformions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
terraformions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
terraformiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
terraformiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
terraformaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
terraformaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
terraformai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
terraformai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
terraformas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
terraformas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
terraforma (historic indicative past singular third-person)
terraforma (historic indicative past singular third-person)
terraformâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
terraformâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
terraformâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
terraformâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
terraformèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
terraformèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
terraformerai (first-person future indicative singular)
terraformerai (first-person future indicative singular)
terraformeras (future indicative second-person singular)
terraformeras (future indicative second-person singular)
terraformera (future indicative singular third-person)
terraformera (future indicative singular third-person)
terraformerons (first-person future indicative plural)
terraformerons (first-person future indicative plural)
terraformerez (future indicative plural second-person)
terraformerez (future indicative plural second-person)
terraformeront (future indicative plural third-person)
terraformeront (future indicative plural third-person)
terraformerais (conditional first-person singular)
terraformerais (conditional first-person singular)
terraformerais (conditional second-person singular)
terraformerais (conditional second-person singular)
terraformerait (conditional singular third-person)
terraformerait (conditional singular third-person)
terraformerions (conditional first-person plural)
terraformerions (conditional first-person plural)
terraformeriez (conditional plural second-person)
terraformeriez (conditional plural second-person)
terraformeraient (conditional plural third-person)
terraformeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
terraforme (first-person present singular subjunctive)
terraforme (first-person present singular subjunctive)
terraformes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
terraformes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
terraforme (present singular subjunctive third-person)
terraforme (present singular subjunctive third-person)
terraformions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
terraformions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
terraformiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
terraformiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
terraforment (plural present subjunctive third-person)
terraforment (plural present subjunctive third-person)
terraformasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
terraformasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
terraformasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
terraformasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
terraformât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
terraformât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
terraformassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
terraformassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
terraformassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
terraformassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
terraformassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
terraformassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
terraforme (imperative second-person singular)
terraforme (imperative second-person singular)
terraformons (first-person imperative plural)
terraformons (first-person imperative plural)
terraformez (imperative plural second-person)
terraformez (imperative plural second-person)

(transitive, science fiction) to terraform


opéra comique

opéra comique m (plural opéras comiques)


téléporter

téléporter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
téléportant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
téléporté (participle past)
téléporte (first-person indicative present singular)
téléportes (indicative present second-person singular)
téléporte (indicative present singular third-person)
téléportons (first-person indicative plural present)
téléportez (indicative plural present second-person)
téléportent (indicative plural present third-person)
téléportais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
téléportais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
téléportait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
téléportions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
téléportiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
téléportaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
téléportai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
téléportas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
téléporta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
téléportâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
téléportâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
téléportèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
téléporterai (first-person future indicative singular)
téléporteras (future indicative second-person singular)
téléportera (future indicative singular third-person)
téléporterons (first-person future indicative plural)
téléporterez (future indicative plural second-person)
téléporteront (future indicative plural third-person)
téléporterais (conditional first-person singular)
téléporterais (conditional second-person singular)
téléporterait (conditional singular third-person)
téléporterions (conditional first-person plural)
téléporteriez (conditional plural second-person)
téléporteraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
téléporte (first-person present singular subjunctive)
téléportes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
téléporte (present singular subjunctive third-person)
téléportions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
téléportiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
téléportent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
téléportasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
téléportasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
téléportât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
téléportassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
téléportassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
téléportassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
téléporte (imperative second-person singular)
téléportons (first-person imperative plural)
téléportez (imperative plural second-person)

(science fiction) to teleport, to beam up


opéra

Borrowed from Italian opera, from Latin opera. Doublet of œuvre and opus.


fabliau

Inherited from Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable.


actualité

→ Turkish: aktüalite


sabre laser

(science fiction) lightsaber (sword having a blade made of a powerful beam of light)


trucage

Comment le trucage avance-t-il l’intrigue? Décrivez l’effet que le trucage évoque chez le spectateur: humour, peur, choc, surprise, admiration ou autre chose.

2007, David Aldstadt, Jean-Louis Hippolyte, Septième Art, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 33:

(film, chiefly in the plural) special effects


yéyé

Borrowed from English yeah-yeah. Compare to go-go, of contemporary coinage, and Brazilian Portuguese iê-iê-iê.

Fondateur du rock français, Johnny Hallyday, comme Richard Anthony, va rapidement abandonner le rock pur et dur et prendre la tête d’un mouvement plus sucré, plus acceptable par le grand public et les médias : le yéyé. Mouvement sociologique et style musical, le yéyé bouleverse le paysage de la chanson dans la première moitié des années 60.

2013, Gilles Schlesser, Le cabaret «Rive Gauche», l'Archipel, →ISBN:

(music) yé-yé (music genre of the early 1960s)


univers parallèle

univers parallèle m (plural univers parallèles)


ovniologue

ovniologue m or f by sense (plural ovniologues)


ovni

Acronym of objet volant non identifié, a calque of English unidentified flying object.


horreur

Inherited from Old French horror, borrowed from Latin horror, from the verb horreo (“to shiver”). The feminine gender's origin is unclear.

Un film d’horreur.


thérianthropie

fr-noun

thérianthropie f (plural thérianthropies)

From Ancient Greek θηρίον (thēríon, “animal”) + ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “human”).


musique concrète

→ English: concrete music (calque)

Coined by French composer Pierre Schaeffer.

coin

musique concrète
musique concrète#English


zombifier

zombifier (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
zombifiant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
zombifié (participle past)
zombifie (first-person indicative present singular)
zombifies (indicative present second-person singular)
zombifie (indicative present singular third-person)
zombifions (first-person indicative plural present)
zombifiez (indicative plural present second-person)
zombifient (indicative plural present third-person)
zombifiais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
zombifiais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
zombifiait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
zombifiions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
zombifiiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
zombifiaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
zombifiai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
zombifias (historic indicative past second-person singular)
zombifia (historic indicative past singular third-person)
zombifiâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
zombifiâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
zombifièrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
zombifierai (first-person future indicative singular)
zombifieras (future indicative second-person singular)
zombifiera (future indicative singular third-person)
zombifierons (first-person future indicative plural)
zombifierez (future indicative plural second-person)
zombifieront (future indicative plural third-person)
zombifierais (conditional first-person singular)
zombifierais (conditional second-person singular)
zombifierait (conditional singular third-person)
zombifierions (conditional first-person plural)
zombifieriez (conditional plural second-person)
zombifieraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
zombifie (first-person present singular subjunctive)
zombifies (present second-person singular subjunctive)
zombifie (present singular subjunctive third-person)
zombifiions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
zombifiiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
zombifient (plural present subjunctive third-person)
zombifiasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
zombifiasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
zombifiât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
zombifiassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
zombifiassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
zombifiassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
zombifie (imperative second-person singular)
zombifions (first-person imperative plural)
zombifiez (imperative plural second-person)

From zombi (“zombie”) + -ifier (“-ify”).


vampiriser

vampiriser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
vampirisant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
vampirisé (participle past)
vampirise (first-person indicative present singular)
vampirises (indicative present second-person singular)
vampirise (indicative present singular third-person)
vampirisons (first-person indicative plural present)
vampirisez (indicative plural present second-person)
vampirisent (indicative plural present third-person)
vampirisais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
vampirisais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
vampirisait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
vampirisions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
vampirisiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
vampirisaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
vampirisai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
vampirisas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
vampirisa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
vampirisâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
vampirisâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
vampirisèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
vampiriserai (first-person future indicative singular)
vampiriseras (future indicative second-person singular)
vampirisera (future indicative singular third-person)
vampiriserons (first-person future indicative plural)
vampiriserez (future indicative plural second-person)
vampiriseront (future indicative plural third-person)
vampiriserais (conditional first-person singular)
vampiriserais (conditional second-person singular)
vampiriserait (conditional singular third-person)
vampiriserions (conditional first-person plural)
vampiriseriez (conditional plural second-person)
vampiriseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
vampirise (first-person present singular subjunctive)
vampirises (present second-person singular subjunctive)
vampirise (present singular subjunctive third-person)
vampirisions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
vampirisiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
vampirisent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
vampirisasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
vampirisasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
vampirisât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
vampirisassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
vampirisassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
vampirisassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
vampirise (imperative second-person singular)
vampirisons (first-person imperative plural)
vampirisez (imperative plural second-person)


trou de ver

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harpie

From Latin harpȳia, from Ancient Greek ἅρπυια (hárpuia), from ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to snatch, seize”).

(derogatory) a shrew, a harridan, a harpy

Harpia harpyja
Harpia harpyja#Translingual


film d'exploitation

fr-noun

film d’exploitation m (plural films d’exploitation)

film d’ exploitation (canonical masculine)
films d’exploitation (plural)


moldu

moldu m (plural moldus, feminine moldue)


aérotrain

From aéro- + train. Attested in 1890 as aéro-train.

(obsolete, science fiction) aerotrain (flying vehicle)


naïade

From Ancient Greek Νᾱϊάς (Nāïás) (oblique stem Νᾱϊαδ-).


opérette

→ Arabic: أوبريت (ʔōberēt)

→ Persian: اپرت (operet)

→ Turkish: operet


Charlot

From Charlie + -ot, after Charlie Chaplin.

[…] il était travesti en Charlot et tenait à la main une petite moustache noire qu’il enduisait de colle.

[…] he was dressed up as Charlie Chaplin and holding a small black moustache, which he was coating with glue.

(theater, film) the Tramp (character portrayed by Charlie Chaplin)


péplum

→ English: peplum

→ Spanish: péplum

Borrowed from Latin peplum, from Ancient Greek πέπλων (péplōn), neuter of πέπλος (péplos).


effet papillon

effet papillon m (plural effets papillon or effets papillons)

effets papillon (plural)
effets papillons (plural)


machine à voyager dans le temps

machine à voyager dans le temps f (plural machines à voyager dans le temps)

machines à voyager dans le temps (plural)

Literally, “machine to travel in [the] time”.


machine à explorer le temps

fr-noun

machine à explorer le temps f (plural machines à explorer le temps)

L’auto bringuebalante qui m’avait amené devait être une machine à explorer le temps. Je n’avais pas seulement changé de pays, mais d’époque ; je reculais brusquement de mille ans.

1944, Roland Dorgelès, Route des tropiques, Albin Michel, page 24:


champ de force

champ de force m (plural champs de force)

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film d'horreur

film d’horreur m (plural films d’horreur)

film d’ horreur (canonical masculine)
films d’horreur (plural)


Poudlard

Coined by Jean-François Ménard in Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers (1998), his translation of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997). From pou (“louse”) + lard (“bacon”), based on Hogwarts (hog + wart).

Au collège Poudlard, on apprend la magie avec les manuels de Bathilda Tourdesac ou d’Adalbert Lasornette

1999, Marion Festraëts, Le triomphe de Harry Potter: L'Express:

At Hogwarts school, you learn magic with textbooks by Bathilda Bagshot or Adalbert Waffling

En clair, l’élite des pédagogues de Poudlard décide d’envoyer un mineur à une mort certaine.

2005, Serge Tisseron, Cruauté ordinaire: Le Monde diplomatique:

To put it plainly, the elite of Hogwarts teachers decide to send a minor to a certain death.

La "cape d’invisibilité" de l’apprenti sorcier pourrait bien un jour sortir des murs de l’école de sorcellerie Poudlard et se voir transposée dans notre réalité.

2012, Des physiciens conçoivent une cape d'"invisibilité temporelle": Le Monde:

The apprentice wizard's "invisibility cloak" could one day leave the walls of the school of sorcery Hogwarts and see itself transposed into our reality.

S’il n’y avait la mosquée jouxtant le bâtiment principal, on pourrait se croire à Poudlard, l’école de Harry Potter.

2013, Fabrice Tassel, Pakistan : Une école pour briser le silence: Libération:

If it weren't for the mosque adjoining the main building, one might think one was at Hogwarts, Harry Potter's school.

Hogwarts, the fictional school of magic in the Harry Potter series


serpopard

(Egyptian mythology, Mesopotamian mythology) serpopard (a mythical animal resembling a serpent-necked leopard, known from Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian depictions)


Jawa

(Star Wars) a fictional small humanoid race living on the fictional planet Tatooine in the franchise Star Wars


antigravitationnel

fr-adj

antigravitationnel (feminine antigravitationnelle, masculine plural antigravitationnels, feminine plural antigravitationnelles)

antigravitationnelle (feminine)
antigravitationnels (masculine plural)
antigravitationnelles (feminine plural)

From anti- + gravitationnel or antigravitation + -el.


wookie

(Star Wars) Wookiee, Wookie (a tall hairy humanoid fictional race from Star Wars)


zoocinéma

the screening of documentary films (about animals) in a zoo etc.


rougarou

(Louisiana, Cajun) Alternative spelling of loup-garou (“werewolf”)


film de cul

(informal, slightly vulgar) a porn movie, a skin flick, a blue movie, a porno


intrication quantique

Probably a calque of English quantum entanglement.

quantum entanglement
quantum entanglement


lupeux

From Latin lupus (whence French loup (“wolf”)) + -eux.

suf

whence French <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">loup</i> (“wolf”)

Cette figure que je vous fais passer représente un côté de la face d’un lupeux que j’ai observé il y a quelques années à ma policlinique de Saint-Sauveur. Ce malade était, en outre, remarquable par l’apparition de tubercules lupeux autour de cicatrices d’anciennes gommes scrofuleuses et par l’aspect particulier (en vésicatoire) que présentait l’ulcération d’une partie de son lupus hypertrophique.

1890, Henri Fournier, Journal des maladies cutanées et syphilitiques, volume 2, page 213:

(medicine, obsolete) a person suffering from lupus


histoire d'amour

fr-noun

histoire d’amour f (plural histoires d’amour)

histoire d’ amour (canonical feminine)
histoires d’amour (plural)


film X

(informal) an X-rated movie, an adult movie, a blue movie, a porn movie, a skin flick, a porno


film de boules

film de boules m (plural films de boules)

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Literally, “balls movie” (from boule f), although the alternative spelling film de boule rather points to the meaning "butt movie" (from boule m).


phoque-garou

From phoque (“seal”) + -garou (“were-”).


opéra-féerie

desc

опера-феерия

→ Russian: опера-феерия (opera-fejerija)


ligne de force

fr-noun

ligne de force f (plural lignes de force)


french touch

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from French + touch, originally the name of a club night at Le Palace in Paris.

pseudo-loan

Décomplexant le milieu techno de l’Hexagone par rapport à son modèle britannique, Daft Punk devient le fer de lance de la French Touch, la musique électronique française, qui s’exporte aussi bien que les foulards Hermès et le beaujolais nouveau.

2003, Irène Inchauspé, Rémi Godeau, chapter 13, in Main basse sur la musique, Calmann-Lévy, →ISBN:

(music) style of French house music popular in the 1990s


ciné-parc

From ciné (“cinema”) + parc (“parking lot”).

(film) a drive-in theatre, a movie theatre where patrons sit in their cars in a parking lot to view the movies


zeuhl

Coined by French musician Christian Vander, who claimed it meant "celestial" in his constructed language Kobaïan.

coin

(music) zeuhl (subgenre of progressive rock)


fée des dents

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À Gabriel qui croit encore au père Noël, mais pas à la fée des dents!

2006, Élaine Turgeon, Le père Noël travaille à mon école, Québec Amérique, dedication:

For Gabriel, who still believes in Father Christmas, but not in the tooth fairy!


histoire du soir

fr-noun

histoire du soir f (plural histoires du soir)


éco-thriller

Calque of English eco-thriller/ecothriller. Also éco- + thriller.


film de guerre

film de guerre m (plural films de guerre)


film d'épouvante

film d’épouvante m (plural films d’épouvante)

film d’ épouvante (canonical masculine)
films d’épouvante (plural)


voyage dans le temps

voyage dans le temps m (plural voyages dans le temps)


lamie

From Latin lamia, from Ancient Greek Λάμια (Lámia).


néo-noir

fr-adj

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

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


film biographique

fr-noun

film biographique m (plural films biographiques)


enchevêtrement quantique

enchevêtrement quantique m (uncountable)


réalité parallèle

réalité parallèle f (plural réalités parallèles)

univers parallèle
univers parallèle#French

(science fiction) Synonym of univers parallèle


voiture volante

voiture volante m (plural voitures volantes)

(science fiction) flying car (vehicle which can function both as a road vehicle and as an aircraft)


chauve-souris-garou

chauve-souris-garou f (plural chauve-souris-garous)

From chauve-souris (“bat”) + -garou (“were-”), from analogy with loup-garou (“werewolf”).


lion-garou

fr-noun

lion-garou m (plural lions-garous, feminine lionne-garou)

lions-garous (plural)
lionne-garou (feminine)


bœuf-garou

bœuf-garou m (plural bœufs-garous, feminine vache-garou)

bœufs-garous (plural)
vache-garou (feminine)


requin-garou

From requin (“shark”) + -garou (“were-”).


vache-garou

vache-garou f (plural vaches-garous, masculine bœuf-garou)

vaches-garous (plural)
bœuf-garou (masculine)


léopard-garou

léopard-garou m (plural léopards-garous)


louve-garou

louve-garou f (plural louves-garous, masculine loup-garou)

louves-garous (plural)
loup-garou (masculine)

From louve (“wolf”, feminine) + -garou (“were-”).


panthère-garou

fr-noun

panthère-garou f (plural panthères-garous)


cochon-garou

cochon-garou m (plural cochons-garous, feminine cochonne-garou)

cochons-garous (plural)
cochonne-garou (feminine)


rat-garou

rat-garou m (plural rats-garous, feminine rate-garou)

rats-garous (plural)
rate-garou (feminine)


thérianthrope

thérianthrope m or f (plural thérianthropes)

From Ancient Greek θηρίον (thēríon, “wild beast, animal”) + ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “person, human being”).


louvetelle-garou

fr-noun

louvetelle-garou f (plural louvetelles-garous, masculine louveteau-garou)

louvetelles-garous (plural)
louveteau-garou (masculine)

(fantasy, mythology) female werewolf cub or pup


rate-garou

rate-garou f (plural rates-garous, masculine rat-garou)

rates-garous (plural)
rat-garou (masculine)


ours-garou

ours-garou m (plural ours-garous, feminine ourse-garou)

ours-garous (plural)
ourse-garou (feminine)


thériomorphe

From Ancient Greek θηριόμορφος (thēriómorphos, from θηρίον (thēríon, “animal”) + μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”)). See also thérien and morphe.

der

Une divinité thériomorphe.


louveteau-garou

fr-noun

louveteau-garou m (plural louveteaux-garous, feminine louvetelle-garou)

louveteaux-garous (plural)
louvetelle-garou (feminine)

(fantasy, mythology) werewolf cub or pup


animal-garou

From animal + -garou (“were-”), by association with loup-garou (“werewolf”).

(fantasy, mythology) wereanimal, werecreature


-garou

From loup-garou (“werewolf”). See also garou.


Ularu

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) A primordial snake-like creator deity


con tinh

The lustful ghost of a virgin woman (in Vietnamese folklore).


femme-renarde

femme-renarde f (plural femmes-renardes)


ma troi

will o' the wisp (in Vietnamese folklore)


ma gia

(Vietnamese folklore) The murderous ghost of an unrecovered drowned person, trying to drown travelers and capsize boats.


ma lai

A type of evil spirit of Vietnamese folklore


chanson de geste

chanson de geste f (plural chansons de geste)

→ English: chanson de geste

→ Italian: canzone di gesta (calque)

→ Portuguese: canção de gesta (calque)

→ Spanish: cantar de gesta (calque)

chanson de geste
chanson de geste#English


western spaghetti

From Calque of English spaghetti western.

spaghetti western
spaghetti western#English


aéro-train

From aéro- + train. Attested in 1890 in Michel Verne's novella La Journée d'un journaliste américain en 2889.

In the Year 2889 (short story)
Michel Verne


aéro-car

From aéro- + car. Attested in 1890 in Michel Verne's novella La Journée d'un journaliste américain en 2889.


aéro-omnibus

From aéro- + omnibus. Attested in 1890 in Michel Verne's novella La Journée d'un journaliste américain en 2889.


agathodémon

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀγαθοδαίμων (agathodaímōn).


demi-caractère

→ English: demi-caractère

→ English: demicharacter (calque)

demi- (“demi-”) + caractère (“character”)

af

D’ailleurs porterez-vous Carmen à l’Opéra, sans reconnaître que tout l’en éloigne, ses proportions et son style, même quand il s’élève le plus ? Tous les chefs-d’œuvres ne sont pas de la même taille, et Carmen serait trop au large dans le cadre de Guillaume Tell ou des Huguenots. Voyons donc l’opéra comique de Bizet tel qu’il est : œuvre de demi-caractère et de juste milieu, faite à la mesure et pour la gloire du théâtre où elle est née.

1886, Camille Bellaigue, “Un siècle de musique française”, in Revue des deux mondes, page 193:

By the way, would you take [Bizet's opera] Carmen to the [Paris] Opera, without acknowledging that everything keeps it away from it, its proportions and its style, even when it elevates itself the most? All masterworks are not of the same size, and Carmen would be too much at large in the frame of Guillaume Tell or of Les Huguenots. Let us look at Bizet's comic opera as it is: a work of demi-caractère and just middle, made to the measure and for the glory of [the Opéra-Comique] where it was born.


premier rôle

Coordinate term: second rôle


heroic fantasy

Unadapted borrowing from English heroic fantasy.