or

From Old French ore, from Vulgar Latin hā horā, alteration of hāc horā (“(in) this hour”, ablative). Compare Spanish ahora, Portuguese agora.

yet, however, now, that said, as it happens (introduces the second term in a syllogism)


bronze

→ Danish: bronze

→ Greenlandic: bronze

→ English: bronze

→ Norwegian: bronse

→ Persian: برنز (boronz)

→ Portuguese: bronze


potassium

Lingala: potasu


aluminium

Lingala: aluminyu

→ Portuguese: alumínio

→ Vietnamese: nhôm


inox

From inoxydable and acier inoxydable, by apocopation.

acier inoxydable
acier inoxydable#French

stainless steel; short form of acier inoxydable


fer

Antillean Creole: fè

Haitian Creole: fè

Karipúna Creole French: fé

Louisiana Creole: fèr, fè

Inherited from Middle French fer, from Old French fer, from Latin ferrum.

croix de bois, croix de fer, si je mens, je vais en enfer


argent

Haitian Creole: ajan

Louisiana Creole: larjên

Inherited from Middle French argent m, from Old French argent m, from Latin argentum n (according to the TLFi etymological dictionary, a borrowing), itself from Proto-Italic *argentom n, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm n, from *h₂erǵ- (“white”).

la parole est d’argent, le silence est d’or

né avec une cuillère d’argent dans la bouche

né avec une cuillère en argent dans la bouche


acier

Haitian Creole: asye

→ Interlingua: aciero

Inherited from Old French acier, acer, from Late Latin aciārium, from Latin acies, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”). Compare Catalan acer, Galician aceiro, Italian acciaio, Occitan acièr, Portuguese aço, Spanish acero.


plomb

Inherited from Middle French plom, from Old French, from Latin plumbum.


cuivre

fr-noun

cuivre m (countable and uncountable, plural cuivres)

Inherited from Old French cuivre, quivre, queivre, coivre, from Latin Cyprium, cupreum (aes) (compare cuprum) from Ancient Greek Κῠ́προς (Kŭ́pros, “Cyprus”). It was not uncommon for Greek short ῠ (pronounced in Classical Attic as /y/) to be adapted as Latin short ŭ. This would normally yield Proto-Western-Romance *[o], but a following palatal sound apparently could cause *[o] to be raised to *[u] (or alternatively, the original close quality of Latin short ŭ to be retained) early enough for the sound change of Proto-Western-Romance *[u] > Old French [y] to apply, yielding the now standard form with ⟨ui⟩ (Old French [yj], modern French [ɥi]). Compare truite from Late Latin tructa, puits from Latin puteus, and huis from Latin ōstium. (But ⟨oi⟩ is seen in forms such as rasoir < rasōrium). Compare the development of ēbrius to French ivre (as opposed to *oivre). A competing explanation supposes a sporadic lowering of Latin ŭ to ŏ (yielding *coprium) or of Western Romance *o to *ɔ, since *ɔ was regularly diphthongized to *uɔ before a palatal and the resulting triphthong *uɔi was simplified to Old French ui (compare corium > cuir).


étain

fr-noun

étain m (usually uncountable, plural étains)

Inherited from Middle French estain, from Old French estain, from Latin stannum, stagnum, of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *stagnos.


laiton

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


culot

→ Catalan: culot m

Etymology tree
French cul
French -ot
French culot
From cul m + -ot m.


mercure

(by extension, with definite article) ambient temperature


billon

→ Catalan: billó

→ English: billon

→ Portuguese: bilhão

From Old French bille (“stick of wood”), from Medieval Latin billa, billia, from Gaulish *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolyo- (“leaf”).


platine

→ German: Platine

DJ Enoch est aux platines ce soir.


acier inoxydable

fr-noun

acier inoxydable m (plural aciers inoxydables)


alliage

Inherited from Middle French alleage. By surface analysis, allier + -age.

alloying (mixing elements to make an alloy)

alloy (metal that is a combination of two or more elements)

(by extension) alloy (metal of lesser value combined with a metal of greater value)

(figuratively) marriage, fusion, alloy, alloying (close union, mixture)


maillechort

From Maill(ot) + Chor(ier), the names of the two Lyon craftsmen who invented it.


tirage

Czech: tiráž

English: tirage

→ Romanian: tiraj

→ Turkish: tiraj

desctree

Russian: тира́ж (tiráž)
→ Azerbaijani: tiraj
→ Georgian: ტირაჟი (ṭiraži)


refondre

refondre (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
refondant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
refondu (participle past)
refonds (first-person indicative present singular)
refonds (indicative present second-person singular)
refond (indicative present singular third-person)
refondons (first-person indicative plural present)
refondez (indicative plural present second-person)
refondent (indicative plural present third-person)
refondais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
refondais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
refondait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
refondions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
refondiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
refondaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
refondis (first-person historic indicative past singular)
refondis (historic indicative past second-person singular)
refondit (historic indicative past singular third-person)
refondîmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
refondîtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
refondirent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
refondrai (first-person future indicative singular)
refondras (future indicative second-person singular)
refondra (future indicative singular third-person)
refondrons (first-person future indicative plural)
refondrez (future indicative plural second-person)
refondront (future indicative plural third-person)
refondrais (conditional first-person singular)
refondrais (conditional second-person singular)
refondrait (conditional singular third-person)
refondrions (conditional first-person plural)
refondriez (conditional plural second-person)
refondraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
refonde (first-person present singular subjunctive)
refondes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
refonde (present singular subjunctive third-person)
refondions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
refondiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
refondent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
refondisse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
refondisses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
refondît (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
refondissions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
refondissiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
refondissent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
refonds (imperative second-person singular)
refondons (first-person imperative plural)
refondez (imperative plural second-person)


catin

Borrowed from Latin catīnus (“vessel”) or catīnum.

(obsolete, metallurgy) vessel for molten metal


centrale nucléaire

fr-noun

centrale nucléaire f (plural centrales nucléaires)


écrouissage

(metallurgy) work hardening, cold working


argentan

/aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɑ̃/


moldamax

an alloy of copper and beryllium used to make moulds for plastic products


fluage

(metallurgy) creep (progressive deformation)


hydrométallurgie

hydrométallurgie f (plural hydrométallurgies)


pyrométallurgie

pyrométallurgie f (plural pyrométallurgies)


superfinition

From super- (“super-, over-”) + finition (“finishing”).


métal alcalin

fr-noun

métal alcalin m (plural métaux alcalins)

From métal (“metal”) + alcalin (“alkaline”).


or blanc

white gold (alloy of gold and another precious metal)