"couple" meaning in French

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Noun

IPA: /kupl/ Audio: fr-fr-couple.ogg [France] Forms: couples [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Old French couple, from Vulgar Latin *cōpla, from Latin cōpula. Doublet of copule. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|couple|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French couple, {{inh+|fr|fro|couple}} Inherited from Old French couple, {{inh|fr|VL.||*cōpla}} Vulgar Latin *cōpla, {{inh|fr|la|cōpula}} Latin cōpula, {{doublet|fr|copule}} Doublet of copule Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} couple m (plural couples)
  1. two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-couple-fr-noun-Z2qnzjtn
  2. (physics) a force couple; a pure moment Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Physics
    Sense id: en-couple-fr-noun-ZedHkGAH Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
  3. (mathematics) an ordered pair Tags: masculine Categories (topical): Mathematics
    Sense id: en-couple-fr-noun-zrqY1zQU Categories (other): Old French entries with incorrect language header, French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Old French entries with incorrect language header: 2 3 7 2 0 4 3 9 0 0 9 8 3 0 2 14 7 0 1 5 7 0 10 2 0 1 0 1 Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 3 10 59 23 1 4 Topics: mathematics, sciences

Noun

IPA: /kupl/ Audio: fr-fr-couple.ogg [France] Forms: couples [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Old French couple, from Vulgar Latin *cōpla, from Latin cōpula. Doublet of copule. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|couple|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French couple, {{inh+|fr|fro|couple}} Inherited from Old French couple, {{inh|fr|VL.||*cōpla}} Vulgar Latin *cōpla, {{inh|fr|la|cōpula}} Latin cōpula, {{doublet|fr|copule}} Doublet of copule Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} couple f (plural couples)
  1. (animal husbandry) an accessory used to tightly attach two animals next to each other by the neck Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-couple-fr-noun-hBqT~vXE
  2. (regional) a pair of something Tags: feminine, regional
    Sense id: en-couple-fr-noun-aveZQ7cl Categories (other): Regional French
  3. (Canada) a couple of something, not to be mistaken as a few Tags: Canada, feminine
    Sense id: en-couple-fr-noun-H6Jyd~Tt Categories (other): Canadian French
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: couplage, coupler

Inflected forms

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      "tags": [
        "France"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (France)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "couple"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.