"étoile" meaning in French

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Noun

IPA: /e.twal/ Audio: Fr-étoile.ogg Forms: étoiles [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French estoile, from Old French estoile, esteile, from Late Latin stēla, from Latin stēlla. Doublet of Estelle. Etymology templates: {{inh|fr|frm|estoile}} Middle French estoile, {{inh|fr|fro|estoile|estoile, esteile}} Old French estoile, esteile, {{inh|fr|LL.|stēla|id=star}} Late Latin stēla, {{inh|fr|la|stēlla}} Latin stēlla, {{doublet|fr|Estelle}} Doublet of Estelle Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} étoile f (plural étoiles)
  1. star Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-étoile-fr-noun-Ul7KHVCJ
  2. (heraldry) mullet Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Heraldic charges
    Sense id: en-étoile-fr-noun-cGnF3lM3 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 3 85 13 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 7 83 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 89 6 Topics: government, heraldry, hobbies, lifestyle, monarchy, nobility, politics
  3. (agriculture) a white mark on the forehead of a horse or bull Tags: feminine Categories (topical): Agriculture
    Sense id: en-étoile-fr-noun-Keyw~ZgR Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: stellaire

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "à la belle étoile"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "amas d’étoiles"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "anis étoile"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "avoir des étoiles dans les yeux"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "avoir des étoiles plein les yeux"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "bonne étoile"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "étoilé"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "étoile à neutrons"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "étoile de David"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "étoile de mer"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "étoile des neiges"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "étoile du matin"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "étoile du soir"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "étoile filante"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "étoile géante"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "étoile invitée"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "étoile jaune"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "étoile naine"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "étoilement"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "étoiler"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "protoétoile"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "super-amas d’étoiles"
    }
  ],
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      "depth": 1,
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            "1": "ht",
            "2": "zetwal"
          },
          "expansion": "Haitian Creole: zetwal",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Haitian Creole: zetwal"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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          "args": {
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            "2": "zetwal"
          },
          "expansion": "Mauritian Creole: zetwal",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Mauritian Creole: zetwal"
    },
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          },
          "expansion": "Seychellois Creole: zetwal",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Seychellois Creole: zetwal"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "étoile",
            "3": "etoile",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: étoile, etoile",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: étoile, etoile"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "étoile",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Italian: étoile",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: étoile"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "estoile"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French estoile",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "estoile",
        "4": "estoile, esteile"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French estoile, esteile",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "LL.",
        "3": "stēla",
        "id": "star"
      },
      "expansion": "Late Latin stēla",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "stēlla"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin stēlla",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "Estelle"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of Estelle",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle French estoile, from Old French estoile, esteile, from Late Latin stēla, from Latin stēlla. Doublet of Estelle.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "étoiles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "étoile f (plural étoiles)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "stellaire"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "star"
      ],
      "id": "en-étoile-fr-noun-Ul7KHVCJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "star",
          "star"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
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          "langcode": "fr",
          "name": "Heraldic charges",
          "orig": "fr:Heraldic charges",
          "parents": [
            "Heraldry",
            "History",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 85 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "7 83 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 89 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "mullet"
      ],
      "id": "en-étoile-fr-noun-cGnF3lM3",
      "links": [
        [
          "heraldry",
          "heraldry"
        ],
        [
          "mullet",
          "mullet"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(heraldry) mullet"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "heraldry",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "monarchy",
        "nobility",
        "politics"
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "fr",
          "name": "Agriculture",
          "orig": "fr:Agriculture",
          "parents": [
            "Applied sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "… a white mark on the forehead of a horse or bull …",
          "ref": "1881, Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy, “étoile”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes, volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 814",
          "text": "صَبْحَة (ṣabḥa) (M), صُبْحَة (ṣubḥa) (Bc), étoile, marque blanche sur le front d’un cheval ou d’un taureau, pelote.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a white mark on the forehead of a horse or bull"
      ],
      "id": "en-étoile-fr-noun-Keyw~ZgR",
      "links": [
        [
          "agriculture",
          "agriculture"
        ],
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ],
        [
          "mark",
          "mark"
        ],
        [
          "forehead",
          "forehead"
        ],
        [
          "horse",
          "horse"
        ],
        [
          "bull",
          "bull"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(agriculture) a white mark on the forehead of a horse or bull"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "agriculture",
        "business",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/e.twal/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-étoile.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/Fr-%C3%A9toile.ogg/Fr-%C3%A9toile.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Fr-%C3%A9toile.ogg"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "étoiles"
    }
  ],
  "word": "étoile"
}
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    "French countable nouns",
    "French doublets",
    "French entries with incorrect language header",
    "French feminine nouns",
    "French lemmas",
    "French nouns",
    "French terms derived from Late Latin",
    "French terms derived from Latin",
    "French terms derived from Middle French",
    "French terms derived from Old French",
    "French terms inherited from Late Latin",
    "French terms inherited from Latin",
    "French terms inherited from Middle French",
    "French terms inherited from Old French",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "French terms with homophones",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "à la belle étoile"
    },
    {
      "word": "amas d’étoiles"
    },
    {
      "word": "anis étoile"
    },
    {
      "word": "avoir des étoiles dans les yeux"
    },
    {
      "word": "avoir des étoiles plein les yeux"
    },
    {
      "word": "bonne étoile"
    },
    {
      "word": "étoilé"
    },
    {
      "word": "étoile à neutrons"
    },
    {
      "word": "étoile de David"
    },
    {
      "word": "étoile de mer"
    },
    {
      "word": "étoile des neiges"
    },
    {
      "word": "étoile du matin"
    },
    {
      "word": "étoile du soir"
    },
    {
      "word": "étoile filante"
    },
    {
      "word": "étoile géante"
    },
    {
      "word": "étoile invitée"
    },
    {
      "word": "étoile jaune"
    },
    {
      "word": "étoile naine"
    },
    {
      "word": "étoilement"
    },
    {
      "word": "étoiler"
    },
    {
      "word": "protoétoile"
    },
    {
      "word": "super-amas d’étoiles"
    }
  ],
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            "1": "ht",
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          },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Haitian Creole: zetwal"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mfe",
            "2": "zetwal"
          },
          "expansion": "Mauritian Creole: zetwal",
          "name": "desc"
        }
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      "text": "Mauritian Creole: zetwal"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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          },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Seychellois Creole: zetwal"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "étoile",
            "3": "etoile",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: étoile, etoile",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: étoile, etoile"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "étoile",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Italian: étoile",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: étoile"
    }
  ],
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        "3": "estoile"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "estoile",
        "4": "estoile, esteile"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "LL.",
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        "id": "star"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
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        "2": "la",
        "3": "stēlla"
      },
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    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "Estelle"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of Estelle",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle French estoile, from Old French estoile, esteile, from Late Latin stēla, from Latin stēlla. Doublet of Estelle.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "étoiles",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "stellaire"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "star"
      ],
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        [
          "star",
          "star"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "mullet"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "heraldry",
          "heraldry"
        ],
        [
          "mullet",
          "mullet"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(heraldry) mullet"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "heraldry",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "monarchy",
        "nobility",
        "politics"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
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        "fr:Agriculture"
      ],
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        {
          "english": "… a white mark on the forehead of a horse or bull …",
          "ref": "1881, Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy, “étoile”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes, volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 814",
          "text": "صَبْحَة (ṣabḥa) (M), صُبْحَة (ṣubḥa) (Bc), étoile, marque blanche sur le front d’un cheval ou d’un taureau, pelote.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a white mark on the forehead of a horse or bull"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "agriculture",
          "agriculture"
        ],
        [
          "white",
          "white"
        ],
        [
          "mark",
          "mark"
        ],
        [
          "forehead",
          "forehead"
        ],
        [
          "horse",
          "horse"
        ],
        [
          "bull",
          "bull"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(agriculture) a white mark on the forehead of a horse or bull"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "agriculture",
        "business",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/e.twal/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-étoile.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/Fr-%C3%A9toile.ogg/Fr-%C3%A9toile.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Fr-%C3%A9toile.ogg"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "étoiles"
    }
  ],
  "word": "étoile"
}

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