"foire" meaning in French

See foire in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /fwaʁ/ Audio: Fr-foire.ogg Forms: foires [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Old French foire from a Vulgar Latin *fēria from the classical Latin noun fēriae. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|foire|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French foire, {{inh+|fr|fro|foire}} Inherited from Old French foire, {{inh|fr|VL.|*fēria}} Vulgar Latin *fēria, {{inh|fr|la|-}} Latin, {{m|la|fēriae}} fēriae Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} foire f (plural foires)
  1. a fair, an exposition Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-foire-fr-noun-y8dORNHi
  2. artisans' market Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-foire-fr-noun-Uv~sUp5q
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bête de foire, champ de foire, comme larrons en foire, foire aux questions, foire d’empoigne Related terms: forain
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /fwaʁ/ Audio: Fr-foire.ogg Forms: foires [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Latin foria. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|la|foria|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Latin foria, {{inh+|fr|la|foria}} Inherited from Latin foria Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} foire f (plural foires)
  1. (vulgar) diarrhoea Tags: feminine, vulgar
    Sense id: en-foire-fr-noun-A2qBp3W9 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 2 2 37 1 42 16
  2. (figuratively, slang) fuckup, mess Tags: feminine, figuratively, slang
    Sense id: en-foire-fr-noun-rUGVHFNv
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /fwaʁ/ Audio: Fr-foire.ogg
Etymology: Inherited from Latin foria. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|la|foria|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Latin foria, {{inh+|fr|la|foria}} Inherited from Latin foria Head templates: {{head|fr|verb form}} foire
  1. inflection of foirer:
    first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    Tags: first-person, form-of, indicative, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person
    Sense id: en-foire-fr-verb-Cue0KOqg Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 2 2 37 1 42 16
  2. inflection of foirer:
    second-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, second-person, singular
    Sense id: en-foire-fr-verb-HZQ5GAv0 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 2 2 37 1 42 16
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/83/Fr-foire.ogg/Fr-foire.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Fr-foire.ogg",
      "text": "audio"
    }
  ],
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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). 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.