femme

Antillean Creole: fanm

Guianese Creole: fanm

Haitian Creole: fanm

Karipúna Creole French: fam

Louisiana Creole: fenm, famm

Seychellois Creole: fanm

Inherited from Middle French femme, from Old French fam(m)e, fem(m)e, fenme, from Latin fēmina, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂ (“(the one) nursing, breastfeeding”), derivation of the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”). The Old French pronunciation was [fɛ̃mə], which then became [fãmə] through lowering of nasal vowels, finally [famə] in Middle French through denasalisation before /m/, /n/. Other words in which -e- is pronounced /a/ include couenne, solennel, and the adverbs in -emment.
See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman and Gallo fame; Picard fanme; Bourguignon fonne; Franco-Provençal fèna; Occitan femna; Corsican femina.

inh

souvent femme varie, bien fol est qui s’y fie

"[…] un couple qui fonctionne requiert des individus dichotomiques qu’il s’agisse d’un homme et d’une femme ou bien d’une butch et d’une femme", Lilian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century.

2001, Marie-Hélène Bourcier, Queer zones: politiques des identités sexuelles, des représentations et des savoirs:

(LGBTQ, rare) Alternative form of fem (“femme, feminine lesbian”) (contrast butch)


queer

queer (not conforming to traditional sexuality)


œuf

→ English: oeuf

⇒? English: love (“score of zero”)

Haitian Creole: ze

→ Limburgish: äöf

Inherited from Middle French œuf, from Old French oef, from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum. Compare Occitan uòu.

mettre tous ses œufs dans le même panier

on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs


fem

Borrowed from English femme, fem (with the rarer spelling borrowed to avoid ambiguity with French femme (“woman”)). English fem is itself from French femme.

Pour faire simple, une fem (prononcer « faime ») c’est une gouine qui n’a rien contre les jupes, les talons hauts, le vernis à ongles et le maquillage. […] On confond parfois les fems avec les lipstick lesbiennes, les charmantes saphiques éthérées comme on en a vu à la fin des années 90 dans les pubs Dior, Benetton et Versace. […] Les fems ont ça de différent des lipstick lesbiennes que notre féminité n’est pas un passe-droit pour d’intégrer, mais au contraire le drapeau de la subversion.

2007, Wendy Delorme, Quatrième génération, Bernard Grasset, pages 23–24:

a femme (feminine queer woman) (contrast butch)


LGBT

LGBT; initialism of lesbiennes, gays, bisexuels, transgenres.


iel

head

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


enculé

fr-noun

enculé m (plural enculés, feminine enculée)

(LGBTQ) bottom (man with a preference for being penetrated during homosexual intercourse)


gouine

Unknown. Possibly borrowed from Breton gouin, from Middle Breton gouhin, from Proto-Brythonic *gwėɣin (“sheath”), itself borrowed from Latin vāgīna (“vagina”); in which case, a doublet of gaine (“sheath”) and vagin (“vagina”).

doublet

«[…]Cette marche est là pour montrer qu’on peut être jeune, LGBTQI+ et vivre en banlieue», affirme-elle avec aplomb, avant de continuer à scander : «Y’en a assez, assez, de cette société qui ne respecte pas les trans, les gouines et les PD».

2019 June 9, Marie Rouge, Emeline Paillasseur, “A Saint-Denis, «assez de cette société qui ne respecte pas les trans, les gouines et les PD»”, in Libération:

" […] This march is there to show that you can be young, LGBTQI+ and live in the suburbs," she asserts confidently, before continuing to chant: "Enough, enough, of this society which does not respect trans people, dykes and homosexuals”.

(slang, derogatory, vulgar) butch, dyke (a masculine lesbian)


homosexualité

En 1791 [mille-sept-cent-quatre-vingt-onze], la France est le premier pays à dépénaliser complètement l’homosexualité.

In 1791 [one thousand-seven-hundred-ninety-one], France was the first country to completely decriminalize homosexuality.


coming out

coming out (plural)
coming-out (alternative)

Unadapted borrowing from English coming out.

ubor

coming out of the closet
come out of the closet#English

(LGBTQ, idiomatic) coming-out (the act of coming out of the closet)


bougre

→ English: bugger

Karipúna Creole French: bug

Portuguese: bugre

From Old French bogre (“heretic”) (1172), also bogresse (“person who indulges in unnatural debauchery”) (1260), from Late Latin Bulgarus (“Bulgarian”), from Old Church Slavonic блъгаринъ (blŭgarinŭ). Doublet of bulgare and boug.


troon

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *trānts
Latin trāns
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Latin genus
Old French gendrebor.
Middle English gendre
English gender
English transgenderblend.
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōm
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm
Proto-Indo-European *-ō
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ
Proto-Germanic *gumô
Proto-West Germanic *gumō
Old English guma
Middle English gone?
English gooney
English goonblend.
English troonbor.
French troon
Unadapted borrowing from English troon.

etymon

Coordinate term: pooner

Mdrrr pourquoi les troons ils bandent toujours sur la violence alors qu’ils font strictement rien irl

Trop bien ça fait quoi d’être en coloc avec toutes les troons de Paris???

(anti-LGBTQ slur, Internet slang, derogatory, offensive) troon (transgender person)


hétérosexualité

fr-noun

hétérosexualité f (plural hétérosexualités)


jaquette

→ Hijazi Arabic: جكيت (jakēt, jikēt)

desc

→ Moroccan Arabic: جاكيطة (jākīṭa), جكيطة (jakīṭa)

→ Persian: ژاکت (žâkat)

→ Portuguese: jaqueta

Inherited from Old French jaquet, diminutive of jaque.


prog

(familiar, slang, transgender) Contraction of progestérone.


polyamour

polyamory (practices involving relationships with multiple partners)


orientation sexuelle

fr-noun

orientation sexuelle f (plural orientations sexuelles)

L’orientation sexuelle est, en sciences humaines et sociales, un mode durable d’attirance sexuelle pour le sexe opposé, le même sexe, ou les deux sexes, et les genres qui vont avec.

Sexual Orientation is, in the human and social sciences, a durable sexual attraction to the opposite sex, the same sex, or both sexes, and the genders that go with them.


enculeur

enculeur m (plural enculeurs, feminine enculeuse)

(LGBTQ) top (man with a preference for penetrating during homosexual intercourse)


asexuel

fr-adj

asexuel (feminine asexuelle, masculine plural asexuels, feminine plural asexuelles)

asexuelle (feminine)
asexuels (masculine plural)
asexuelles (feminine plural)

desc

→ Russian: беспо́лый (bespólyj) (calque)

Turkish: aseksüel


polyamoureux

fr-adj

polyamoureux (feminine polyamoureuse, masculine plural polyamoureux, feminine plural polyamoureuses)

polyamoureuse (feminine)
polyamoureux (masculine plural)
polyamoureuses (feminine plural)


bardache

→ English: bardash, berdache

→ Portuguese: berdache

Earlier bredaiche, borrowed from Italian bardassa, from Arabic بَرْدَج (bardaj, “slave”).

(dated) berdache (third-gender Native (North) American)


allosexuel

allosexuel (feminine allosexuelle, masculine plural allosexuels, feminine plural allosexuelles)

allosexuelle (feminine)
allosexuels (masculine plural)
allosexuelles (feminine plural)

(chiefly Canada, LGBTQ) allosexual (LGBT, trans or non-heterosexual)


mégenrer

mégenrer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
mégenrant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
mégenré (participle past)
mégenre (first-person indicative present singular)
mégenres (indicative present second-person singular)
mégenre (indicative present singular third-person)
mégenrons (first-person indicative plural present)
mégenrez (indicative plural present second-person)
mégenrent (indicative plural present third-person)
mégenrais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
mégenrais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
mégenrait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
mégenrions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
mégenriez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
mégenraient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
mégenrai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
mégenras (historic indicative past second-person singular)
mégenra (historic indicative past singular third-person)
mégenrâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
mégenrâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
mégenrèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
mégenrerai (first-person future indicative singular)
mégenreras (future indicative second-person singular)
mégenrera (future indicative singular third-person)
mégenrerons (first-person future indicative plural)
mégenrerez (future indicative plural second-person)
mégenreront (future indicative plural third-person)
mégenrerais (conditional first-person singular)
mégenrerais (conditional second-person singular)
mégenrerait (conditional singular third-person)
mégenrerions (conditional first-person plural)
mégenreriez (conditional plural second-person)
mégenreraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
mégenre (first-person present singular subjunctive)
mégenres (present second-person singular subjunctive)
mégenre (present singular subjunctive third-person)
mégenrions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
mégenriez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
mégenrent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
mégenrasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
mégenrasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
mégenrât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
mégenrassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
mégenrassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
mégenrassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
mégenre (imperative second-person singular)
mégenrons (first-person imperative plural)
mégenrez (imperative plural second-person)


transidentité

LL-Q150 (fra)-Nattes à chat-transidentité.wav


non-binaire

non-binaires (plural)
non binaire (alternative)


transitude

From trans + -itude. Canadian academic researcher Alexandre Baril coined the term in 2014 for a 2015 scientific presentation.

Alexandre Baril
Université du Québec à Montréal


chevalier de la manchette

fr-noun

chevalier de la manchette m (plural chevaliers de la manchette)

LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-chevalier de la manchette.wav

Cette aventure me mit pour l’avenir à couvert des entreprises des chevaliers de la manchette ; et la vue des gens qui passaient pour en être me rappelant l’air et les gestes de mon effroyable More, m’a toujours inspiré tant d’horreur, que j’avais peine à la cacher.

c. 1765, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Les Confessions, volume 1, published 1889, book II, pages 64–65:

This adventure assured me for the future against the attempts of the "Knights of the Cuff"; and the sight of people who were supposed to belong to their order, by recalling to my mind the appearance and gestures of my frightful Moor, always inspired me with such horror, that I had difficulty in concealing it.

(dated, slang, euphemistic) gay man, homosexual man


deadnamer

deadnamer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
deadnamant (gerund participle present)
/dɛd.nɛj.mɑ̃/ (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
deadnamé (participle past)
/dɛd.nɛj.me/ (participle past)
deadname (first-person indicative present singular)
deadname (first-person indicative present singular)
deadnames (indicative present second-person singular)
deadnames (indicative present second-person singular)
deadname (indicative present singular third-person)
deadname (indicative present singular third-person)
deadnamons (first-person indicative plural present)
/dɛd.nɛj.mɔ̃/ (first-person indicative plural present)
deadnamez (indicative plural present second-person)
/dɛd.nɛj.me/ (indicative plural present second-person)
deadnament (indicative plural present third-person)
deadnament (indicative plural present third-person)
deadnamais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
/dɛd.nɛj.mɛ/ (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
deadnamais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
/dɛd.nɛj.mɛ/ (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
deadnamait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
/dɛd.nɛj.mɛ/ (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
deadnamions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
/dɛd.nɛj.mjɔ̃/ (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
deadnamiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
/dɛd.nɛj.mje/ (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
deadnamaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
/dɛd.nɛj.mɛ/ (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
deadnamai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
/dɛd.nɛj.me/ (first-person historic indicative past singular)
deadnamas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
/dɛd.nɛj.ma/ (historic indicative past second-person singular)
deadnama (historic indicative past singular third-person)
/dɛd.nɛj.ma/ (historic indicative past singular third-person)
deadnamâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
/dɛd.nɛj.mam/ (first-person historic indicative past plural)
deadnamâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
/dɛd.nɛj.mat/ (historic indicative past plural second-person)
deadnamèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
/dɛd.nɛj.mɛʁ/ (historic indicative past plural third-person)
deadnamerai (first-person future indicative singular)
deadnamerai (first-person future indicative singular)
deadnameras (future indicative second-person singular)
deadnameras (future indicative second-person singular)
deadnamera (future indicative singular third-person)
deadnamera (future indicative singular third-person)
deadnamerons (first-person future indicative plural)
deadnamerons (first-person future indicative plural)
deadnamerez (future indicative plural second-person)
deadnamerez (future indicative plural second-person)
deadnameront (future indicative plural third-person)
deadnameront (future indicative plural third-person)
deadnamerais (conditional first-person singular)
deadnamerais (conditional first-person singular)
deadnamerais (conditional second-person singular)
deadnamerais (conditional second-person singular)
deadnamerait (conditional singular third-person)
deadnamerait (conditional singular third-person)
deadnamerions (conditional first-person plural)
/dɛd.nɛj.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ (conditional first-person plural)
deadnameriez (conditional plural second-person)
/dɛd.nɛj.mə.ʁje/ (conditional plural second-person)
deadnameraient (conditional plural third-person)
deadnameraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
deadname (first-person present singular subjunctive)
deadname (first-person present singular subjunctive)
deadnames (present second-person singular subjunctive)
deadnames (present second-person singular subjunctive)
deadname (present singular subjunctive third-person)
deadname (present singular subjunctive third-person)
deadnamions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
/dɛd.nɛj.mjɔ̃/ (first-person plural present subjunctive)
deadnamiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
/dɛd.nɛj.mje/ (plural present second-person subjunctive)
deadnament (plural present subjunctive third-person)
deadnament (plural present subjunctive third-person)
deadnamasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
/dɛd.nɛj.mas/ (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
deadnamasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
/dɛd.nɛj.mas/ (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
deadnamât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
/dɛd.nɛj.ma/ (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
deadnamassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
/dɛd.nɛj.ma.sjɔ̃/ (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
deadnamassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
/dɛd.nɛj.ma.sje/ (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
deadnamassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
/dɛd.nɛj.mas/ (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
deadname (imperative second-person singular)
deadname (imperative second-person singular)
deadnamons (first-person imperative plural)
/dɛd.nɛj.mɔ̃/ (first-person imperative plural)
deadnamez (imperative plural second-person)
/dɛd.nɛj.me/ (imperative plural second-person)
deadname (alternative)


homme trans-identifié

homme trans-identifié m (plural hommes trans-identifiés)

Calque of English trans-identified male.


pédé comme un phoque

fr-adj

pédé comme un phoque m (masculine only, masculine plural pédés commes des phoques)

pédés commes des phoques (masculine plural)

Literally, “queer as a seal”. It has been argued it was initially the homophonic pédé comme un foc (“queer as a jib”), a reference to sodomy. It is therefore possible the expression originated among sailors, and foc turned into phoque through popular unfamiliarity with naval vocabulary.

bent as a nine-bob note
bent as a nine-bob note

(simile, vulgar, offensive) queer as a coot, bent as a nine-bob note, gay as springtime (completely homosexual)


pansexuel

pansexuel (feminine pansexuelle, masculine plural pansexuels, feminine plural pansexuelles)

pansexuelle (feminine)
pansexuels (masculine plural)
pansexuelles (feminine plural)


trouple

en trouple


syndrome de Turner

Named after American endocrinologist Henry Turner, who first described the condition in 1938.

named-after

(medicine, medical genetics) Turner syndrome


demi-fille

demi-filles (plural)
demifille (alternative)


demi-garçon

demi-garçons (plural)
demigarçon (alternative)


autaire

fr-noun

autaire gender-neutral (plural autaires)

autaire gender-neutral (canonical)
autaires (plural)

(2018) From *aut- (from auteur and autrice) and -aire. Alpheratz proposes an extension of the suffix -aire to coin gender-neutral words.

Si Labelle est la figure peut-être la plus connue de la culture populaire trans travaillant explicitement entre les deux langues, une démarche similaire de traduction active et dynamique se retrouve dans le travail exposé sur le blog La Vie en queer (LVEQ, antérieurement Unique en son genre). Son autaire anonyme trans non-binaire publie chaque semaine un nouveau contenu sur des questions trans et connexes.

2022, Vinay Swamy, Louisa Mackenzie, Devenir non-binaire en français contemporain, Le Manuscrit, page 175 (203 PDF):

Après une soirée festive vendredi, le 23e Jamais Lu s’ouvrait samedi après-midi sur une pièce de l’autaire/interprète Lyraël Dauphin, une pièce personnelle qui touche à l’universel et qui oscille entre le touchant et l’hilarant. Parce que c’est ça, la vie. Drôle et prenant. Que l’on soit hétéronormatif, homosexuel, non-binaire, trans. Et quand on est un festival qui présente des textes inédits et qui suscite toujours plus d’engouement, on a sans doute l’embarras du choix des meilleurs quand on en reçoit plus de 130.

2024 May 10, Yanik Comeau, Théâtre: Jamais Lu «Le Condo de mon adelphe» de Lyraël Dauphin: Fenêtre ouverte sur l’avenir, www.theatralites.com:

Un·e certain·e Alpheratz, dont on ignore le genre, publie une «Grammaire du français inclusif». On sait qu’iel est chercheur·euse, doctorant·e à la Sorbonne. Selon le dossier de presse, c’est lui·elle (luel?) qui est l’«autaire» (le mot est d’iel) de «Requiem», roman n’utilisant que des formes neutres, comme le pronom «iel».

2018 October 25, David Caviglioli, “Ne soyez pas si conservateur·trice·s, soyons tout·e·s inclusif·ve·s”, in Le Nouvel Obs:

(neologism, uncommon, nonstandard) A non-binary writer.


morinommer

morinommer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
morinommant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
morinommé (participle past)
morinomme (first-person indicative present singular)
morinommes (indicative present second-person singular)
morinomme (indicative present singular third-person)
morinommons (first-person indicative plural present)
morinommez (indicative plural present second-person)
morinomment (indicative plural present third-person)
morinommais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
morinommais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
morinommait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
morinommions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
morinommiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
morinommaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
morinommai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
morinommas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
morinomma (historic indicative past singular third-person)
morinommâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
morinommâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
morinommèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
morinommerai (first-person future indicative singular)
morinommeras (future indicative second-person singular)
morinommera (future indicative singular third-person)
morinommerons (first-person future indicative plural)
morinommerez (future indicative plural second-person)
morinommeront (future indicative plural third-person)
morinommerais (conditional first-person singular)
morinommerais (conditional second-person singular)
morinommerait (conditional singular third-person)
morinommerions (conditional first-person plural)
morinommeriez (conditional plural second-person)
morinommeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
morinomme (first-person present singular subjunctive)
morinommes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
morinomme (present singular subjunctive third-person)
morinommions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
morinommiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
morinomment (plural present subjunctive third-person)
morinommasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
morinommasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
morinommât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
morinommassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
morinommassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
morinommassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
morinomme (imperative second-person singular)
morinommons (first-person imperative plural)
morinommez (imperative plural second-person)