maori

maori (feminine maorie, masculine plural maoris, feminine plural maories)

maorie (feminine)
maoris (masculine plural)
maories (feminine plural)

(relational) Maori (relating to the Maori people or language)


sacral

fr-adj

sacral (feminine sacrale, masculine plural sacraux, feminine plural sacrales)

sacrale (feminine)
sacraux (masculine plural)
sacrales (feminine plural)


occitan

occitan (feminine occitane, masculine plural occitans, feminine plural occitanes)

occitane (feminine)
occitans (masculine plural)
occitanes (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin occitanus in the phrase lingua occitana, Latinization of langue d’oc. The ending -itanus perhaps after aquitanus.


algonquin

algonquin (feminine algonquine, masculine plural algonquins, feminine plural algonquines)

algonquine (feminine)
algonquins (masculine plural)
algonquines (feminine plural)


nase

Alternative spelling of naze (“worthless, knackered”)


australien

australien (feminine australienne, masculine plural australiens, feminine plural australiennes)

australienne (feminine)
australiens (masculine plural)
australiennes (feminine plural)


afar

afar (feminine afare, masculine plural afars, feminine plural afares)

afare (feminine)
afars (masculine plural)
afares (feminine plural)

les nomades afars

les tribus afares


wolof

wolof (feminine wolofe, masculine plural wolofs, feminine plural wolofes)

wolofe (feminine)
wolofs (masculine plural)
wolofes (feminine plural)


breton

breton (feminine bretonne, masculine plural bretons, feminine plural bretonnes)

bretonne (feminine)
bretons (masculine plural)
bretonnes (feminine plural)

(relational) Breton (of or relating to Brittany, its language or people)


nauruan

nauruan (feminine nauruane, masculine plural nauruans, feminine plural nauruanes)

nauruane (feminine)
nauruans (masculine plural)
nauruanes (feminine plural)


somnolent

somnolent (feminine somnolente, masculine plural somnolents, feminine plural somnolentes)

somnolente (feminine)
somnolents (masculine plural)
somnolentes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French sompnolent, borrowed from Latin somnolentus.


swahili

swahili (feminine swahilie, masculine plural swahilis, feminine plural swahilies)

swahilie (feminine)
swahilis (masculine plural)
swahilies (feminine plural)


sororicide

Learned borrowing from Latin sorōricīda.


jovial

jovial (feminine joviale, masculine plural joviaux, feminine plural joviales)

joviale (feminine)
joviaux (masculine plural)
joviales (feminine plural)

⇒ Czech: žoviální

Borrowed from Italian gioviale, from Latin ioviālis.


mormon

mormon (feminine mormone, masculine plural mormons, feminine plural mormones)

mormone (feminine)
mormons (masculine plural)
mormones (feminine plural)


catalan

catalan (feminine catalane, masculine plural catalans, feminine plural catalanes)

catalane (feminine)
catalans (masculine plural)
catalanes (feminine plural)


martial

martial (feminine martiale, masculine plural martiaux, feminine plural martiales)

martiale (feminine)
martiaux (masculine plural)
martiales (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Latin martiālis (“of Mars, the Roman god of war”).


khmer

fr-adj

khmer (feminine khmère, masculine plural khmers, feminine plural khmères)

khmère (feminine)
khmers (masculine plural)
khmères (feminine plural)


inuit

inuit (feminine inuite, masculine plural inuits, feminine plural inuites)

inuite (feminine)
inuits (masculine plural)
inuites (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Inuktitut ᐃᓄᐃᑦ (inoit, “the people”).


tupi

fr-adj

tupi (feminine tupie, masculine plural tupis, feminine plural tupies)

tupie (feminine)
tupis (masculine plural)
tupies (feminine plural)


busqué

busqué (feminine busquée, masculine plural busqués, feminine plural busquées)

busquée (feminine)
busqués (masculine plural)
busquées (feminine plural)


métrosexuel

métrosexuel (feminine métrosexuelle, masculine plural métrosexuels, feminine plural métrosexuelles)

métrosexuelle (feminine)
métrosexuels (masculine plural)
métrosexuelles (feminine plural)

From English metrosexual; métro- + sexuel.


octal

octal (feminine octale, masculine plural octaux, feminine plural octales)

octale (feminine)
octaux (masculine plural)
octales (feminine plural)


divisible

Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Late Latin divisibilis, from the verb Latin dividō.


HS

Initialism of hors sujet. (off-topic, irrelevant)


quintuple

une quintuple croche

hundred twenty-eighth note
hundred twenty-eighth note


kazakh

kazakh (feminine kazakhe, masculine plural kazakhs, feminine plural kazakhes)

kazakhe (feminine)
kazakhs (masculine plural)
kazakhes (feminine plural)


lamentable

Learned borrowing from Latin lāmentābilis (“full of sorrow, mournful; deplorable”), from lāmentor (“lament”), from lāmenta (“wailing, weeping”).


urticant

fr-adj

urticant (feminine urticante, masculine plural urticants, feminine plural urticantes)

urticante (feminine)
urticants (masculine plural)
urticantes (feminine plural)


à la mode

Haitian Creole: alamòd

→ English: a la mode

→ Finnish: à la mode, a la mode

desc

→ Norwegian Bokmål: à la mode, a la mode


incessant

fr-adj

incessant (feminine incessante, masculine plural incessants, feminine plural incessantes)

incessante (feminine)
incessants (masculine plural)
incessantes (feminine plural)


cosmopolite

Learned borrowing from Latin cosmopolītēs, itself borrowed from Koine Greek κοσμοπολίτης (kosmopolítēs, “citizen of the world”), from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “world”) + πολίτης (polítēs, “citizen”).

der

κοσμοπολίτης


klingon

fr-adj

klingon (feminine klingonne, masculine plural klingons, feminine plural klingonnes)

klingonne (feminine)
klingons (masculine plural)
klingonnes (feminine plural)


assis

assis (feminine assise, masculine plural assis, feminine plural assises)

assise (feminine)
assis (masculine plural)
assises (feminine plural)


sentimental

sentimental (feminine sentimentale, masculine plural sentimentaux, feminine plural sentimentales)

sentimentale (feminine)
sentimentaux (masculine plural)
sentimentales (feminine plural)

English sentimental. By surface analysis, sentiment + -al.


marcescent

marcescent (feminine marcescente, masculine plural marcescents, feminine plural marcescentes)

marcescente (feminine)
marcescents (masculine plural)
marcescentes (feminine plural)


turbulent

turbulent (feminine turbulente, masculine plural turbulents, feminine plural turbulentes)

turbulente (feminine)
turbulents (masculine plural)
turbulentes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French turbulent, from Old French turbulent, from Latin turbulentus.


crème

desctree

→ Dutch: crème
→ Indonesian: krèm
→ Papiamentu: krèm

→ English: crème, creme

→ German: creme

→ Romanian: crem

→ Turkish: krem

Inherited from Middle French chresme, from Old French cresme, from Late Latin crama, a Transalpine Gaulish word influenced by Latin chrisma (modern French chrême), from Ancient Greek χρῖσμα (khrîsma).


kenyan

fr-adj

kenyan (feminine kenyane, masculine plural kenyans, feminine plural kenyanes)

kenyane (feminine)
kenyans (masculine plural)
kenyanes (feminine plural)


nippon

nippon (feminine nipponne or nippone, masculine plural nippons, feminine plural nipponnes or nippones)

nipponne (feminine)
nippone (feminine)
nippons (masculine plural)
nipponnes (feminine plural)
nippones (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Japanese 日本 (Nippon, “Japan”, noun).

bor+

Si Rinri avait interrogé de façon négative, ce qui est courant dans ce pays compliqué, j’étais cuite. Je tentai de me rappeler les règles grammaticales nippones de réponse aux questions négatives, ce qui est aussi complexe que de retenir les pas du tango.

2007, Amélie Nothomb, Ni d’Ève ni d’Adam [Neither Eve nor Adam] (non-fiction), Éditions Albin Michel:

If Rinri was asking in a negative way, which is commonplace in this complicated country, then I was being tricked. I tried to remember the Nipponese grammatical rules on responding to negative questions, which was as hard as keeping up with tango steps.

Synonym of japonais (“Japanese”); Nipponese


choral

fr-adj

choral (feminine chorale, masculine plural choraux, feminine plural chorales)

chorale (feminine)
choraux (masculine plural)
chorales (feminine plural)


dissident

dissident (feminine dissidente, masculine plural dissidents, feminine plural dissidentes)

dissidente (feminine)
dissidents (masculine plural)
dissidentes (feminine plural)


anticoagulant

anticoagulant (feminine anticoagulante, masculine plural anticoagulants, feminine plural anticoagulantes)

anticoagulante (feminine)
anticoagulants (masculine plural)
anticoagulantes (feminine plural)

(medicine) anticoagulant, anticoagulating (that prevents coagulation, that stops blood from clotting)


finissant

finissant (feminine finissante, masculine plural finissants, feminine plural finissantes)

finissante (feminine)
finissants (masculine plural)
finissantes (feminine plural)


rectal

rectal (feminine rectale, masculine plural rectaux, feminine plural rectales)

rectale (feminine)
rectaux (masculine plural)
rectales (feminine plural)

Les douaniers lui ont infligé une fouille rectale

The customs inspector subjected him to a rectal exam


bestial

bestial (feminine bestiale, masculine plural bestiaux, feminine plural bestiales)

bestiale (feminine)
bestiaux (masculine plural)
bestiales (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Late Latin bēstiālis, from Latin bēstia (“beast”).


luminescent

luminescent (feminine luminescente, masculine plural luminescents, feminine plural luminescentes)

luminescente (feminine)
luminescents (masculine plural)
luminescentes (feminine plural)

Back-formation from luminescence, on the model of fluorescence / fluorescent.


IPC

Borrowed from English IPC (“International Paralympic Committee”).

bor+

(sports, dated) Indicating a sport adapted for the disabled, typically prefixing the term.


indien

fr-adj

indien (feminine indienne, masculine plural indiens, feminine plural indiennes)

indienne (feminine)
indiens (masculine plural)
indiennes (feminine plural)


alluvial

alluvial (feminine alluviale, masculine plural alluviaux, feminine plural alluviales)

alluviale (feminine)
alluviaux (masculine plural)
alluviales (feminine plural)


ababouiné

ababouiné (feminine ababouinée, masculine plural ababouinés, feminine plural ababouinées)

ababouinée (feminine)
ababouinés (masculine plural)
ababouinées (feminine plural)

(nautical, archaic, dialectal) Said of a boat stopped by water's stillness; becalmed


mort de rire

mort de rire (feminine morte de rire, masculine plural morts de rire, feminine plural mortes de rire)

morte de rire (feminine)
morts de rire (masculine plural)
mortes de rire (feminine plural)

/mɔʁ də ʁiʁ/

Tout le monde était mort de rire après cette blague.

Everyone was dying laughing after that joke.


cries

plural of crie; feminine plural of cri; feminine of cris


en retraite

/ɑ̃ ʁə.tʁɛt/


accompli

accompli (feminine accomplie, masculine plural accomplis, feminine plural accomplies)

accomplie (feminine)
accomplis (masculine plural)
accomplies (feminine plural)


admissible

Formed from admis + -ible; Medieval Latin admissibilis was borrowed from or created based on the French.


collective

Après une belle action collective, l’équipe a enfin marqué un but.

After some good teamwork, the team finally scored a goal.


ignorant

ignorant (feminine ignorante, masculine plural ignorants, feminine plural ignorantes)

ignorante (feminine)
ignorants (masculine plural)
ignorantes (feminine plural)


à poil

une fille à poil

se promener à poil

(informal) in the buff, stark naked, starkers


sah

Borrowed from Maghrebi Arabic صَحّ (ṣaḥḥ).

«T’es sah? Le mec nous insulte et tu dis rien?»

"Are you serious? The dude insults us and you don't say anything?"


bigot

bigot (feminine bigote, masculine plural bigots, feminine plural bigotes)

bigote (feminine)
bigots (masculine plural)
bigotes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French bigot, from Old French bigot, a derogatory term applied to Normans, possibly due to their frequent use of the Old English oath bī god (“by God”). See also English bigot for a further possible etymology.


poilu

poilu (feminine poilue, masculine plural poilus, feminine plural poilues)

poilue (feminine)
poilus (masculine plural)
poilues (feminine plural)

From poil + -u; compare Spanish peludo. The figurative sense entered the language through French military slang.

(dated, figurative) brave, courageous; energetic


disjoint

disjoint (feminine disjointe, masculine plural disjoints, feminine plural disjointes)

disjointe (feminine)
disjoints (masculine plural)
disjointes (feminine plural)


spinal

spinal (feminine spinale, masculine plural spinaux, feminine plural spinales)

spinale (feminine)
spinaux (masculine plural)
spinales (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Late Latin spīnālis, from Latin spīna.


provocateur

provocateur (feminine provocatrice, masculine plural provocateurs, feminine plural provocatrices)

provocatrice (feminine)
provocateurs (masculine plural)
provocatrices (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Latin provocātōrem. See provoquer, -ateur.


spectral

spectral (feminine spectrale, masculine plural spectraux, feminine plural spectrales)

spectrale (feminine)
spectraux (masculine plural)
spectrales (feminine plural)


infect

infect (feminine infecte, masculine plural infects, feminine plural infectes)

infecte (feminine)
infects (masculine plural)
infectes (feminine plural)

→ Romanian: infect


testimonial

testimonial (feminine testimoniale, masculine plural testimoniaux, feminine plural testimoniales)

testimoniale (feminine)
testimoniaux (masculine plural)
testimoniales (feminine plural)


effluent

effluent (feminine effluente, masculine plural effluents, feminine plural effluentes)

effluente (feminine)
effluents (masculine plural)
effluentes (feminine plural)


proverbial

proverbial (feminine proverbiale, masculine plural proverbiaux, feminine plural proverbiales)

proverbiale (feminine)
proverbiaux (masculine plural)
proverbiales (feminine plural)


zodiacal

zodiacal (feminine zodiacale, masculine plural zodiacaux, feminine plural zodiacales)

zodiacale (feminine)
zodiacaux (masculine plural)
zodiacales (feminine plural)


pauvre

Inherited from Middle French pauvre, relatinisation of earlier povre, from Old French povre, inherited from Latin pauper, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”).

der

(after a noun) poor (financially deprived)

pauvre con

(derogatory) Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.


afghan

fr-adj

afghan (feminine afghane, masculine plural afghans, feminine plural afghanes)

afghane (feminine)
afghans (masculine plural)
afghanes (feminine plural)


strident

strident (feminine stridente, masculine plural stridents, feminine plural stridentes)

stridente (feminine)
stridents (masculine plural)
stridentes (feminine plural)

strident; producing a high-pitched or piercing sound


territorial

territorial (feminine territoriale, masculine plural territoriaux, feminine plural territoriales)

territoriale (feminine)
territoriaux (masculine plural)
territoriales (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Late Latin territoriālis, from Latin territorium. By surface analysis, territoire + -al.

Le Méliphage festonné est un oiseau territorial.

The Western spinebill is a territorial bird.

En tant que concept politique, l’État-nation se caractérise par une autorité à base territoriale, et non par des conceptions universalistes, extra-territoriales.

1987 (transl. 1992), Panayiotis Jerasimof Vatikiotis, translated by Odette Guitard, L'Islam et l'État [Islam and the State]:

As a political concept, the nation-state is characterized by a territorially based authority, rather than universalist, extra-territorial conceptions.


manchot

manchot (feminine manchote, masculine plural manchots, feminine plural manchotes)

manchote (feminine)
manchots (masculine plural)
manchotes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French manc (itself from Latin mancus) + -ot.


stagnant

stagnant (feminine stagnante, masculine plural stagnants, feminine plural stagnantes)

stagnante (feminine)
stagnants (masculine plural)
stagnantes (feminine plural)


allodial

allodial (feminine allodiale, masculine plural allodiaux, feminine plural allodiales)

allodiale (feminine)
allodiaux (masculine plural)
allodiales (feminine plural)


imperturbable

Learned borrowing from Late Latin imperturbābilis.


délicieux

fr-adj

délicieux (feminine délicieuse, masculine plural délicieux, feminine plural délicieuses)

délicieuse (feminine)
délicieux (masculine plural)
délicieuses (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Late Latin deliciōsus. Cognate with English delicious, Italian delizioso, Romanian delicios, Spanish delicioso.


seul

seul (feminine seule, masculine plural seuls, feminine plural seules)

seule (feminine)
seuls (masculine plural)
seules (feminine plural)

Inherited from Latin sōlus. Doublet of solo, which is a borrowing from Italian.

On ne sera jamais seul autour de nous ; on est une meute solide, on est une bande de loups. / We are never alone around ourselves; we are a solid pack, we are a band of wolves.


tactique

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τακτικός (taktikós).


Hon.

Hon. Alternative form of hon. (honorable)


souciant

fr-adj

souciant (feminine souciante, masculine plural souciants, feminine plural souciantes)

souciante (feminine)
souciants (masculine plural)
souciantes (feminine plural)

English: insouciance (via insouciance)


charitable

From Old French charitable, from charité.


froid

froid (feminine froide, masculine plural froids, feminine plural froides)

froide (feminine)
froids (masculine plural)
froides (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French froit, freid, inherited from Latin frīgidus (“cold”) (through a syncopated Vulgar Latin or Late Latin form frigdus, fricdus, attested in the Appendix Probi, or fridus, on a Pompeian inscription). Doublet of frigide, a later borrowing.

la vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid


perceptible

Borrowed from Late Latin perceptibilis (from Latin percipiō).

A ce niveau, cibrations thoraciques faibles, mais perceptibles ; voix un peu éloignée, mais sans aucun timbre ægophonique.

1876, M. Bouilly, Archives Générales de Médecine, page 464:


bête

Inherited from Middle French beste, from Old French beste, probably partially borrowed from Classical Latin bēstia (“beast”), or less likely from an alternative Vulgar Latin bēsta (“animal”). Compare biche (probably from Old French bisse, itself from Vulgar Latin bīstia; compare Italian biscia).

Or, on ne trouve pas « vraiment beau ! » ce qui vous laisse indifférent, et ce qu’on trouve « vraiment bête ! » , on est bien près d’y renoncer.

(offensive) stupid; inept (not very bright and lacking in judgement)

silly; avoidable (which could have been easily averted)

Je dis ça, mais depuis quelques semaines elle est moins bête. Même avec moi

1999, Chrystine Brouillet, Les Fiancées de l'Enfer, →ISBN, page 69:

I say that, but these last few weeks she hasn't been as nasty [lit: "less of a beast"]. Even with me.

(Canada, informal) grumpy (having a bad character or in a bad mood; showing great displeasure in interacting with people)


auguste

Borrowed from Latin augustus. Doublet of août, which was inherited.


honorable

Inherited from Old French [Term?], borrowed from Latin honōrābilis.


friable

Inherited from Latin friābilis, from friō (“to crumble”).


disponible

Borrowed from Medieval Latin dispōnibilis.


pécheur

fr-adj

pécheur (feminine pécheresse, masculine plural pécheurs, feminine plural pécheresses)

pécheresse (feminine)
pécheurs (masculine plural)
pécheresses (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French pecheor, inherited from Latin peccātōrem. By surface analysis, pécher + -eur.


prudent

prudent (feminine prudente, masculine plural prudents, feminine plural prudentes)

prudente (feminine)
prudents (masculine plural)
prudentes (feminine plural)


uzbek

uzbek (feminine uzbèke, masculine plural uzbeks, feminine plural uzbèkes)

uzbèke (feminine)
uzbeks (masculine plural)
uzbèkes (feminine plural)


tricolor

tricolor (feminine tricolore, masculine plural tricolors, feminine plural tricolores)

tricolore (feminine)
tricolors (masculine plural)
tricolores (feminine plural)


risqué

risqué (feminine risquée, masculine plural risqués, feminine plural risquées)

risquée (feminine)
risqués (masculine plural)
risquées (feminine plural)

→ English: risqué


acquis

acquis (feminine acquise, masculine plural acquis, feminine plural acquises)

acquise (feminine)
acquis (masculine plural)
acquises (feminine plural)


dictatorial

dictatorial (feminine dictatoriale, masculine plural dictatoriaux, feminine plural dictatoriales)

dictatoriale (feminine)
dictatoriaux (masculine plural)
dictatoriales (feminine plural)


subliminal

subliminal (feminine subliminale, masculine plural subliminaux, feminine plural subliminales)

subliminale (feminine)
subliminaux (masculine plural)
subliminales (feminine plural)

English subliminal, itself a calque from German unterschwellig.


postprandial

postprandial (feminine postprandiale, masculine plural postprandiaux, feminine plural postprandiales)

postprandiale (feminine)
postprandiaux (masculine plural)
postprandiales (feminine plural)


imprudent

imprudent (feminine imprudente, masculine plural imprudents, feminine plural imprudentes)

imprudente (feminine)
imprudents (masculine plural)
imprudentes (feminine plural)

From Latin imprūdentem. Morphologically analyzable as im- + prudent.


inextricable

Learned borrowing from Latin inextrīcābilis.

lbor

Near-synonym: insoluble


homologue

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁμόλογος (homólogos, “agreeing, of one mind”). By surface analysis, homo- + -logue.

Dans les triangles similaires, les côtés homologues sont proportionnels.

In similar triangles, homologous sides are proportional.


superflu

fr-adj

superflu (feminine superflue, masculine plural superflus, feminine plural superflues)

superflue (feminine)
superflus (masculine plural)
superflues (feminine plural)


sublime

Inherited from Middle French sublime, borrowed from Latin sublimis.


bipartite

Learned borrowing from Latin bipartītus.


gercé

gercé (feminine gercée, masculine plural gercés, feminine plural gercées)

gercée (feminine)
gercés (masculine plural)
gercées (feminine plural)


antiviral

antiviral (feminine antivirale, masculine plural antiviraux, feminine plural antivirales)

antivirale (feminine)
antiviraux (masculine plural)
antivirales (feminine plural)


tous

Inherited from Middle French tous < Old French toz. By surface analysis, tout + -s.

Je me brosse les dents tous les jours.

I brush my teeth every day. (literally, “I brush my teeth all the days.”)


pur

pur (feminine pure, masculine plural purs, feminine plural pures)

pure (feminine)
purs (masculine plural)
pures (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French pur, from Old French pur, from Latin pūrus.


bidon

Inherited from Middle French bidon (“small portable container, sealed and made of wood or metal”), from Old Norse bida, *biða (“container, vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *bidōn, *bidjan (“tub, vessel, vat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰidʰ- (“pot, bucket, barrel”), from *bʰeydʰ- (“to weave, bind”).
Cognate with Icelandic biða (“milkbucket”), Norwegian bide (“churn”), Norwegian bidne (“vessel”), Latin fidēlia (“clay or glass vessel”).

der

La course de chevaux est bidon.

Ces cris et ces pleurs sont bidon puisqu’elle ne l’aimait pas.

These cries and tears are phoney because she didn't love him.

Ce film est complètement bidon.


attaché

fr-adj

attaché (feminine attachée, masculine plural attachés, feminine plural attachées)

attachée (feminine)
attachés (masculine plural)
attachées (feminine plural)

attached, attached to, bound, committed, connected, devoted, fastened, fixed, joined-up, secured, strapped, tethered, tie-on, tied, wired


rococo

Jacques-Louis David
Louis XVI
Pierre-Maurice Quays
fr:Jean-Joseph Lemaire
rocaille

Undoubtedly, a word from rocaille and barroco, to denote pejoratively a "rock" style, then gone out-of-fashion; invented in 1797 by Pierre-Maurice Quays, pupil of Jacques-Louis David and firebrand of an austere neoclassical style.

rococo (architectural style, all senses)

(abstract, derogatory) Relating to old traditions, which may be seen as foolishly outdated; archaic, old-fashioned, obsolete, backwards


parti

parti (feminine partie, masculine plural partis, feminine plural parties)

partie (feminine)
partis (masculine plural)
parties (feminine plural)

(heraldry) divided into two equal parts vertically, per pale; said of an escutcheon

Au début j’ai bien essayé de baratiner Ambre et puis quand j’ai compris que j’étais trop parti pour la baiser convenablement, j’ai laissé tomber.

1999, Anna Gavalda, “Ambre”, in Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part, →ISBN:

At first I tried my best to sweet-talk Ambre but then realized I was too drunk to screw her properly, and let go.


chaque

From Middle French chasque, a backformation from chascun, from Old French chascun (whence modern chacun). The Old French derives from a conflation of Vulgar Latin *quiscunus (from quisque unus) with synonymous *catunus (from cata unus, from Ancient Greek κατά (katá), whence Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese cada). The short vowel (and hence the lack of a circumflex) is due to the usually unstressed position (cf. notre vs. le nôtre).


contraire

Borrowed from Latin contrārius. See contre and -aire.

Près d’épouser la sœur qu’il faut tuer le frère / Et que pour mon pays j’ai le Sort si contraire

1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act 2, scene 3:

While about to wed the sister, that I must slay her brother / And that for my country, I face such an unfortunate fate


au fait

Êtes-vous au fait des règles du jeu ?

Are you au fait with the rules of the game?


financier

financier (feminine financière, masculine plural financiers, feminine plural financières)

financière (feminine)
financiers (masculine plural)
financières (feminine plural)


vigneron

vigneron (feminine vigneronne, masculine plural vignerons, feminine plural vigneronnes)

vigneronne (feminine)
vignerons (masculine plural)
vigneronnes (feminine plural)


ogive

From Vulgar Latin augīvus, from Latin augēre, as the ogive goes on increasing, and the arch it forms increases the strength of the vault. In Old French we find the phrase arc ogif, itself from Latin arcus augivus. The word was also written as augive in the 17th century.


droit

droit (feminine droite, masculine plural droits, feminine plural droites)

droite (feminine)
droits (masculine plural)
droites (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French droit (spelled dreit in Early Old French, such as the Oaths of Strasbourg), inherited from Late Latin drictus, syncopated form of Latin dīrēctus. Doublet of direct. In Middle French, it was for a time spelled droict to reflect the original Latin etymology.

Donne-moi ta main droite.

Une rue droite.


ci-devant

→ English: ci-devant


aspirant

aspirant (feminine aspirante, masculine plural aspirants, feminine plural aspirantes)

aspirante (feminine)
aspirants (masculine plural)
aspirantes (feminine plural)


paranormal

paranormal (feminine paranormale, masculine plural paranormaux, feminine plural paranormales)

paranormale (feminine)
paranormaux (masculine plural)
paranormales (feminine plural)


opalescent

opalescent (feminine opalescente, masculine plural opalescents, feminine plural opalescentes)

opalescente (feminine)
opalescents (masculine plural)
opalescentes (feminine plural)

Dehors, le soleil ne déclinait plus, fixant les heures dans une clarté constante. Dix et seize heures diffusaient la même couleur. En marchant dans la lumière opalescente, elle ressentit un picotement. Un fourmillement qui se répandait sur sa peau et que chaque femme d’Ouessant connaissait bien.

2017, Jeanne Bocquenet-Carle, Que tombent les étoiles:

Outside, the sun did not go down, fixing the hours in a constant clarity. Ten in the morning and four in the afternoon cast the same colour. Walking in the opalescent light, she felt a tingle. A prickling which spread over her skin and which every woman in Ushant knew well.

On procède immédiatement au barbotage dans une solution d’acétate de plomb; il se produit rapidement une opalescence laiteuse par précipitation de carbonate de plomb, puis deux minutes environ après l’injection, le liquide opalescent vire au gris, puis au brun très clair (café au lait).

1893, Revue médicale de la Suisse romande, volume 13, page 336:

We immediately proceed to bubbling in a solution of lead acetate; a milky opalescence quickly develops by precipitation of lead carbonate, then about two minutes after injection the opalescent liquid turns gray, then a very light brown (coffee with milk).


hormonal

hormonal (feminine hormonale, masculine plural hormonaux, feminine plural hormonales)

hormonale (feminine)
hormonaux (masculine plural)
hormonales (feminine plural)


flou

flou (feminine floue, masculine plural flous, feminine plural floues)

floue (feminine)
flous (masculine plural)
floues (feminine plural)

From Middle French flou, from Old French flou, flo (“soft, wilted, tired, exhausted”), from Old Frankish *hlāo (“lukewarm, tepid, mild”), from Proto-Germanic *hlēwaz (“warm, lukewarm”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlēw- (“to be warm or hot”). More at lew.
Alternative etymology derives Old French flou, flo from Latin flāvus (“yellow”), via a farming metaphor.


mauvais

fr-adj

mauvais (feminine mauvaise, masculine plural mauvais, feminine plural mauvaises, comparative pire, superlative le pire)

mauvaise (feminine)
mauvais (masculine plural)
mauvaises (feminine plural)
pire (comparative)
le pire (superlative)

Inherited from Middle French maulvais, from Old French malvais, malveis (“evil, wicked, bad, of poor or inferior quality", later also "unlucky”), from Late Latin malifātius (“unfortunate”, 4th c.), from Latin malus (“bad”) + fātum (“fate”). According to some sources, influenced in meaning by Frankish *balwīg (“evil, wicked, of poor quality”), which was suspected to have become altered to *malwīg under influence of Latin malus (“bad”).

ncog

un mauvais ouvrier a toujours de mauvais outils

Il a choisi la mauvaise réponse.


appliqué

fr-adj

appliqué (feminine appliquée, masculine plural appliqués, feminine plural appliquées)

appliquée (feminine)
appliqués (masculine plural)
appliquées (feminine plural)

diligent, industrious, hardworking, careful

Coordinate term: pur

les mathématiques appliquées


framboise

Inherited from Middle French and Old French framboise (“raspberry”), from Frankish *brāmabasi (whence Dutch braambes), variant of Proto-West Germanic *brāmabaʀi (whence German Brombeere), all "blackberry, bramble". The French f- is due to dissimilation and influence by unrelated fraise (“strawberry”).

Je porte une chemise framboise.


avancé

avancé (feminine avancée, masculine plural avancés, feminine plural avancées)

avancée (feminine)
avancés (masculine plural)
avancées (feminine plural)


vermifuge

From Latin vermis (“worm”) + fugāre (“to cause to flee”).


parastatal

parastatal (feminine parastatale, masculine plural parastataux, feminine plural parastatales)

parastatale (feminine)
parastataux (masculine plural)
parastatales (feminine plural)


maya

(relational) Mayan (relating to the Mayans)

(relational) Mayan (relating to the Mayan language)


burlesque

Borrowed from Italian burlesco (“parodic”).


bricoleur

fr-adj

bricoleur (feminine bricoleuse, masculine plural bricoleurs, feminine plural bricoleuses)

bricoleuse (feminine)
bricoleurs (masculine plural)
bricoleuses (feminine plural)


inaccessible

Borrowed from Late Latin inaccessibilis. By surface analysis, in- + accessible.


caudal

caudal (feminine caudale, masculine plural caudaux, feminine plural caudales)

caudale (feminine)
caudaux (masculine plural)
caudales (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Latin caudālis, from cauda. See also queue.


transformateur

transformateur (feminine transformatrice, masculine plural transformateurs, feminine plural transformatrices)

transformatrice (feminine)
transformateurs (masculine plural)
transformatrices (feminine plural)


blessé

blessé (feminine blessée, masculine plural blessés, feminine plural blessées)

blessée (feminine)
blessés (masculine plural)
blessées (feminine plural)


concupiscent

concupiscent (feminine concupiscente, masculine plural concupiscents, feminine plural concupiscentes)

concupiscente (feminine)
concupiscents (masculine plural)
concupiscentes (feminine plural)


infernal

infernal (feminine infernale, masculine plural infernaux, feminine plural infernales)

infernale (feminine)
infernaux (masculine plural)
infernales (feminine plural)

(figuratively) infernal, hellish, awful, terrible


informe

(astronomy) Étoiles informes : An old term for stars that were not members of any constellation


composite

→ Turkish: kompozit

Inherited from Middle French, borrowed from Latin compositus. Doublet of compote and compost.


politique

→ Polish: polityczny

Learned borrowing from Latin polīticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πολιτικός (politikós).

économie politique

parti politique

prisonnier politique

homme politique

femme politique

sciences politiques

rectitude politique


interminable

Borrowed from Latin interminābilis. By surface analysis, in- + terminer + -able.

surf

unending, endless, ceaseless, neverending


rennais

fr-adj

rennais (feminine rennaise, masculine plural rennais, feminine plural rennaises)

rennaise (feminine)
rennais (masculine plural)
rennaises (feminine plural)


suivant

suivant (feminine suivante, masculine plural suivants or (obsolete) suivans, feminine plural suivantes)

suivante (feminine)
suivants (masculine plural)
suivans (masculine obsolete plural)
suivantes (feminine plural)

See suivre. From Old French sivant (variant suiant), present participle of sivre (variant suire). Possibly corresponds to Latin sequentem, through a Vulgar Latin derivative.

samedi suivant


joueur

joueur (feminine joueuse, masculine plural joueurs, feminine plural joueuses)

joueuse (feminine)
joueurs (masculine plural)
joueuses (feminine plural)


sujet

sujet (feminine sujette, masculine plural sujets, feminine plural sujettes)

sujette (feminine)
sujets (masculine plural)
sujettes (feminine plural)

sujet à


baptismal

baptismal (feminine baptismale, masculine plural baptismaux, feminine plural baptismales)

baptismale (feminine)
baptismaux (masculine plural)
baptismales (feminine plural)


bolchevique

Borrowed from Russian большеви́к (bolʹševík).


dernier

fr-adj

dernier (feminine dernière, masculine plural derniers, feminine plural dernières)

dernière (feminine)
derniers (masculine plural)
dernières (feminine plural)

From a contraction of earlier derrenier, a derivation of Old French derrain (through analogy with premier), itself derived from Vulgar Latin *dēretrānus, from Latin dē + retrō + -ānus.

Il est parti le mois dernier.

Je n’ai parlé qu’une fois avec elle depuis l’année dernière.

I haven't spoken with her a single time since last year.

J’espère que les dernières mises à jour vont nous permettre d’achever le projet à temps.

I hope that the latest updates allow us to complete the project on time.


vide

→ Romanian: vid

From Old French vuit, from Vulgar Latin *vocitum. The modern French form is due to generalisation of the feminine (Old French vuide) and assimilation vui- → vi-.


rosé

rosé (feminine rosée, masculine plural rosés, feminine plural rosées)

rosée (feminine)
rosés (masculine plural)
rosées (feminine plural)


recyclable

From recycler + -able, influenced by English.


sybarite

Ces docteurs frivoles, ces philosophes sybarites qui repoussent toute pensée sérieuse. (Jouy, Hermite, t. 2, 1812)

soft, effeminate, living in pleasure and luxury


parfait

parfait (feminine parfaite, masculine plural parfaits, feminine plural parfaites)

parfaite (feminine)
parfaits (masculine plural)
parfaites (feminine plural)

Calque of Latin perfectus based on French par- + fait, inherited from Latin per- and factus respectively.

Le déjeuner était parfait.


lupin

lupin (feminine lupine, masculine plural lupins, feminine plural lupines)

lupine (feminine)
lupins (masculine plural)
lupines (feminine plural)


fatigué

fatigué (feminine fatiguée, masculine plural fatigués, feminine plural fatiguées)

fatiguée (feminine)
fatigués (masculine plural)
fatiguées (feminine plural)


lourd

lourd (feminine lourde, masculine plural lourds, feminine plural lourdes)

lourde (feminine)
lourds (masculine plural)
lourdes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French lourd, from Old French lorz, lourt, from Late Latin lurdus, lordus, probably from Latin lūridus (“sallow”), possibly influenced by Frankish *lort (“crooked, clumsy”); related to Old English lort (“crooked”).

Ce type est vraiment lourd, il arrête pas de me parler sans remarquer que je m’en fous.

This guy is really annoying, he won’t stop talking to me and doesn’t notice that I don’t give a shit.


neuronal

neuronal (feminine neuronale, masculine plural neuronaux, feminine plural neuronales)

neuronale (feminine)
neuronaux (masculine plural)
neuronales (feminine plural)


caché

caché (feminine cachée, masculine plural cachés, feminine plural cachées)

cachée (feminine)
cachés (masculine plural)
cachées (feminine plural)


longitudinal

longitudinal (feminine longitudinale, masculine plural longitudinaux, feminine plural longitudinales)

longitudinale (feminine)
longitudinaux (masculine plural)
longitudinales (feminine plural)

From Latin longitūdō, longitūdinis (whence longitude) + -al.

longitudinal (relating to length; running in the direction of the long axis of a body)

Coordinate term: latitudinal

Coordinate term: transversal

longitudinal (sampling data over time rather than merely once)


nosocomial

nosocomial (feminine nosocomiale, masculine plural nosocomiaux, feminine plural nosocomiales)

nosocomiale (feminine)
nosocomiaux (masculine plural)
nosocomiales (feminine plural)

From Late Latin nosocomīum (“hospital”) + -al, from Ancient Greek νοσοκομεῖον (nosokomeîon).

af

(medicine) nosocomial (arising from hospital treatment)


indistinct

fr-adj

indistinct (feminine indistincte, masculine plural indistincts, feminine plural indistinctes)

indistincte (feminine)
indistincts (masculine plural)
indistinctes (feminine plural)

Learned borrowing from Latin indistīnctus. By surface analysis, in- + distinct.

lbor

not distinct; not easily distinguishable


incurable

Learned borrowing from Late Latin incūrābilis. By surface analysis, in- + curable.


andorran

fr-adj

andorran (feminine andorrane, masculine plural andorrans, feminine plural andorranes)

andorrane (feminine)
andorrans (masculine plural)
andorranes (feminine plural)


chichi

→ English: chichi

Probably related to chiche with a sense of "small thing"

Je ne connais pas une fille plus apprêtée, plus chichi, plus maniérée.

1911, Sacha Guitry, Le Veilleur de nuit:

I don't know any girl more dolled-up, more chichi, more mannered.


limitrophe

→ English: limitrophe

→ Portuguese: limítrofe

→ Spanish: limítrofe

→ Russian: лимитроф (limitrof)

Inherited from Middle French limitrophe, from Latin limitrophus.

un pays limitrophe

a bordering country, a neighbouring country


aimant

aimant (feminine aimante, masculine plural aimants, feminine plural aimantes)

aimante (feminine)
aimants (masculine plural)
aimantes (feminine plural)

Un mari aimant.


aimé

aimé (feminine aimée, masculine plural aimés, feminine plural aimées)

aimée (feminine)
aimés (masculine plural)
aimées (feminine plural)


doctrinaire

→ English: doctrinaire

→ German: doktrinär


serein

serein (feminine sereine, masculine plural sereins, feminine plural sereines)

sereine (feminine)
sereins (masculine plural)
sereines (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French serein, probably from seri (“calm, mild”), serrit (with a change of suffix influenced by Latin serēnus), from a verb deriving from Latin serēscere (“grow dry”), itself from or related to serēnus (“cloudless”), by extension "calm, peaceful".


subjacent

subjacent (feminine subjacente, masculine plural subjacents, feminine plural subjacentes)

subjacente (feminine)
subjacents (masculine plural)
subjacentes (feminine plural)


contourné

contourné (feminine contournée, masculine plural contournés, feminine plural contournées)

contournée (feminine)
contournés (masculine plural)
contournées (feminine plural)


hypercorrect

hypercorrect (feminine hypercorrecte, masculine plural hypercorrects, feminine plural hypercorrectes)

hypercorrecte (feminine)
hypercorrects (masculine plural)
hypercorrectes (feminine plural)


gourd

gourd (feminine gourde, masculine plural gourds, feminine plural gourdes)

gourde (feminine)
gourds (masculine plural)
gourdes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French [Term?], from Latin gurdus.


bavarois

bavarois (feminine bavaroise, masculine plural bavarois, feminine plural bavaroises)

bavaroise (feminine)
bavarois (masculine plural)
bavaroises (feminine plural)


causal

causal (feminine causale, masculine plural causaux, feminine plural causales)

causale (feminine)
causaux (masculine plural)
causales (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Late Latin causālis, from Latin causa.


héréditaire

Borrowed from Latin hereditārius. Doublet of héritier.


alandais

alandais (feminine alandaise, masculine plural alandais, feminine plural alandaises)

alandaise (feminine)
alandais (masculine plural)
alandaises (feminine plural)


bruni

bruni (feminine brunie, masculine plural brunis, feminine plural brunies)

brunie (feminine)
brunis (masculine plural)
brunies (feminine plural)


abonné

abonné (feminine abonnée, masculine plural abonnés, feminine plural abonnées)

abonnée (feminine)
abonnés (masculine plural)
abonnées (feminine plural)

regularly affected by; plagued or dogged with


ouvert

ouvert (feminine ouverte, masculine plural ouverts, feminine plural ouvertes)

ouverte (feminine)
ouverts (masculine plural)
ouvertes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French ouvert, from Old French overt, from Vulgar Latin *opertus, from Latin apertus. Doublet of apert.

(heraldry) of a building: having a door of a specified colour


saur

saur (feminine saure, masculine plural saurs, feminine plural saures)

saure (feminine)
saurs (masculine plural)
saures (feminine plural)

From Middle French saur, from Old French sor, from Frankish *sōri, *saur (“dry”), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry, parched”). Cognate with Old English sēar (“dry”). More at sear.


immigrant

immigrant (feminine immigrante, masculine plural immigrants, feminine plural immigrantes)

immigrante (feminine)
immigrants (masculine plural)
immigrantes (feminine plural)


cham

cham (feminine chame, masculine plural chams, feminine plural chames)

chame (feminine)
chams (masculine plural)
chames (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Vietnamese Chăm, from Eastern Cham Cam.


actuel

actuel (feminine actuelle, masculine plural actuels, feminine plural actuelles)

actuelle (feminine)
actuels (masculine plural)
actuelles (feminine plural)

→ Danish: aktuel

→ Dutch: actueel

→ German: aktuell

→ Norwegian Bokmål: aktuell

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: aktuell

→ Swedish: aktuell

→ Finnish: aktuelli

Borrowed from Latin actuālis (“active, practical”).


viril

fr-adj

viril (feminine virile, masculine plural virils, feminine plural viriles)

virile (feminine)
virils (masculine plural)
viriles (feminine plural)


hexagonal

hexagonal (feminine hexagonale, masculine plural hexagonaux, feminine plural hexagonales)

hexagonale (feminine)
hexagonaux (masculine plural)
hexagonales (feminine plural)

échecs hexagonaux

French; specifically, related to the French mainland (l'Hexagone)


ivre

Inherited from Old French yvre, inherited from Latin ēbrius.

ivre de bonheur

ivre de malheur

ivre d’amour

(figurative) drunk, intoxicated, overwhelmed


mal amanché

mal amanché (feminine mal amanchée, masculine plural mal amanchés, feminine plural mal amanchées)

mal amanchée (feminine)
mal amanchés (masculine plural)
mal amanchées (feminine plural)


gros

gros (feminine grosse, masculine plural gros, feminine plural grosses)

grosse (feminine)
gros (masculine plural)
grosses (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French gros, from Latin grossus, possibly ultimately of Germanic origin.

Mon petit copain a des gros doigts.


pleural

pleural (feminine pleurale, masculine plural pleuraux, feminine plural pleurales)

pleurale (feminine)
plural pleuraux (masculine)
plural pleurales (feminine)


divergent

divergent (feminine divergente, masculine plural divergents, feminine plural divergentes)

divergente (feminine)
divergents (masculine plural)
divergentes (feminine plural)


putrescent

putrescent (feminine putrescente, masculine plural putrescents, feminine plural putrescentes)

putrescente (feminine)
putrescents (masculine plural)
putrescentes (feminine plural)


difficile

Inherited from Old French difficile, from Latin difficilis.

Near-synonym: compliqué

la critique est aisée mais l’art est ‘’’difficile’’’

être ‘’’difficile’’’

faire le ‘’’difficile’’’


hypocrite

Tu le connais, lecteur, ce monstre délicat, / — Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère !

1857, Charles Baudelaire, “Au lecteur”, in Les Fleurs du mal [The Flowers of Evil], Paris: Poulet-Malassis et De Broise:


intercostal

intercostal (feminine intercostale, masculine plural intercostaux, feminine plural intercostales)

intercostale (feminine)
intercostaux (masculine plural)
intercostales (feminine plural)


ennemi

ennemi (feminine ennemie, masculine plural ennemis, feminine plural ennemies)

ennemie (feminine)
ennemis (masculine plural)
ennemies (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French enemi, anemi, from earlier inimi, inimic, from Latin inimīcus.

feu ennemi


bipartisan

bipartisan (feminine bipartisane, masculine plural bipartisans, feminine plural bipartisanes)

bipartisane (feminine)
bipartisans (masculine plural)
bipartisanes (feminine plural)


sanskrit

sanskrit (feminine sanskrite, masculine plural sanskrits, feminine plural sanskrites)

sanskrite (feminine)
sanskrits (masculine plural)
sanskrites (feminine plural)

la langue sanskrite


sympathique

→ Dutch: sympathiek

→ Romanian: simpatic

→ Russian: симпатичный (simpatičnyj)

→ Turkish: sempatik

Inherited from Middle French sympathic, from sympathie, from Late Latin sympathia, from Ancient Greek συμπάθεια (sumpátheia), from συν- (sun-, “with, together”) + πάθος (páthos, “suffering”).


vaginal

vaginal (feminine vaginale, masculine plural vaginaux, feminine plural vaginales)

vaginale (feminine)
vaginaux (masculine plural)
vaginales (feminine plural)

→ Dutch: vaginaal

Les sécrétions vaginales, quand elles ont une consistance mucilagineuse adéquate, favorisent la pénétration et les mouvements du pénis ou de l’objet pénétrant dans le vagin et facilitent le plaisir sexuel.

Vaginal secretions have a mucilaginous consistency that eases the penetration and movement of the penis or the penetrating object into and inside the vagina (thus) facilitating (female) sexual pleasure.


délicat

délicat (feminine délicate, masculine plural délicats, feminine plural délicates)

délicate (feminine)
délicats (masculine plural)
délicates (feminine plural)

→ Alemannic German: delekat

→ Danish: delikat

desctree

→ German: delikat
→ Polish: delikatny
→ Russian: деликатный (delikatnyj)

→ Norwegian: delikat

→ Romanian: delicat

→ Swedish: delikat

Inherited from Middle French delicat, borrowed from Latin dēlicātus.


savoyard

fr-adj

savoyard (feminine savoyarde, masculine plural savoyards, feminine plural savoyardes)

savoyarde (feminine)
savoyards (masculine plural)
savoyardes (feminine plural)


costal

costal (feminine costale, masculine plural costaux, feminine plural costales)

costale (feminine)
costaux (masculine plural)
costales (feminine plural)


succulent

succulent (feminine succulente, masculine plural succulents, feminine plural succulentes)

succulente (feminine)
succulents (masculine plural)
succulentes (feminine plural)


incontinent

incontinent (feminine incontinente, masculine plural incontinents, feminine plural incontinentes)

incontinente (feminine)
incontinents (masculine plural)
incontinentes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French incontinent, borrowed from Latin incontinentem, from in + continens.

inh+

(medicine) incontinent, suffering from incontinence, enuretic


imperceptible

From the Medieval Latin imperceptibilis.


rom

Borrowed from Romani rrom, from Sanskrit डोम (ḍoma, “member of a low caste of travelling musicians and dancers”) or डोम्ब (ḍomba).


romaine

Feminine of romain ("Roman") from Latin romanus.


dormant

fr-adj

dormant (feminine dormante, masculine plural dormants, feminine plural dormantes)

dormante (feminine)
dormants (masculine plural)
dormantes (feminine plural)


arborescent

arborescent (feminine arborescente, masculine plural arborescents, feminine plural arborescentes)

arborescente (feminine)
arborescents (masculine plural)
arborescentes (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Latin arborēscentem, present active participle of arborēscō (“to become a tree”).


interchangeable

Ces deux termes sont souvent interchangeables.

These two terms are often interchangeable.


glacé

glacé (feminine glacée, masculine plural glacés, feminine plural glacées)

glacée (feminine)
glacés (masculine plural)
glacées (feminine plural)

→ Catalan: glacé

→ English: glacé

→ Portuguese: glacê, glacé

→ Spanish: glasé


nouveau

nouveau (masculine singular before vowel nouvel, feminine nouvelle, masculine plural nouveaux, feminine plural nouvelles)

nouvel (before-vowel masculine singular)
nouvelle (feminine)
nouveaux (masculine plural)
nouvelles (feminine plural)

Haitian Creole: nouvo

Mauritian Creole: nouvo

Seychellois Creole: nouvo

→ English: nouveau

Inherited from Middle French nouveau, from Old French novel, from Latin novellus.


inaudible

inaudible (unable to be heard or not loud enough to be heard)

(derogatory) unlistenable (very unpleasant to listen to)


brumal

brumal (feminine brumale, masculine plural brumaux, feminine plural brumales)

brumale (feminine)
brumaux (masculine plural)
brumales (feminine plural)


modal

modal (feminine modale, masculine plural modaux, feminine plural modales)

modale (feminine)
modaux (masculine plural)
modales (feminine plural)

From Medieval Latin modalis, from Latin modus 'mode'.


déshabillé

déshabillé (feminine déshabillée, masculine plural déshabillés, feminine plural déshabillées)

déshabillée (feminine)
déshabillés (masculine plural)
déshabillées (feminine plural)


militant

militant (feminine militante, masculine plural militants, feminine plural militantes)

militante (feminine)
militants (masculine plural)
militantes (feminine plural)


nonpareil

nonpareil (feminine nonpareile, masculine plural nonpareils, feminine plural nonpareiles)

nonpareile (feminine)
nonpareils (masculine plural)
nonpareiles (feminine plural)


susceptible

Cet incident est susceptible d’entraîner une crise diplomatique.

This incident is liable to lead to a diplomatic crisis.

Évite de le critiquer, il est très susceptible.

Avoid criticising him, he's very touchy.


entier

entier (feminine entière, masculine plural entiers, feminine plural entières)

entière (feminine)
entiers (masculine plural)
entières (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French entier, inherited from Latin integrum (although modified with the -ier suffix analogically). Compare the borrowed doublet intègre.

des biscuits entiers et des brisés

un chiffre entier

une valeur entière

(arithmetic) whole (of a number), integer

le monde entier, la terre entière

(of bread) wholemeal (UK), wholewheat (US)


courts

Ses cours sont trop courts.


résistant

résistant (feminine résistante, masculine plural résistants, feminine plural résistantes)

résistante (feminine)
résistants (masculine plural)
résistantes (feminine plural)


insensible

Inherited from Old French insensible, from Late Latin īnsēnsibilis.


inviolable

From Latin inviolābilis (“untouchable”).


raté

raté (feminine ratée, masculine plural ratés, feminine plural ratées)

ratée (feminine)
ratés (masculine plural)
ratées (feminine plural)


apical

apical (feminine apicale, masculine plural apicaux, feminine plural apicales)

apicale (feminine)
apicaux (masculine plural)
apicales (feminine plural)


vieil

From Old French viel, from Latin vetulus (diminutive of vetus); alternative form due to historical enchaînement of the final l. Alternatively, from the accusative form vetulum while vieux is properly from nominative vetulus as per Mildred K. Pope (From Latin to Modern French, sections 509, 808).

Nous ferions bien d’aller aider ce vieil homme.

form of vieux used before a masculine singular noun that starts with a vowel or mute h


saxon

saxon (feminine saxonne, masculine plural saxons, feminine plural saxonnes)

saxonne (feminine)
saxons (masculine plural)
saxonnes (feminine plural)


magistral

magistral (feminine magistrale, masculine plural magistraux, feminine plural magistrales)

magistrale (feminine)
magistraux (masculine plural)
magistrales (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Latin magistrālis, itself from magister. Doublet of mistral.

cours magistral

Il s’est planté d’une façon magistrale.


universel

universel (feminine universelle, masculine plural universels, feminine plural universelles)

universelle (feminine)
universels (masculine plural)
universelles (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French universal, a borrowing from Latin ūniversālis.

pince universelle

clef universelle

all-purpose, universal (useful for many purposes)


magyar

magyar (feminine magyare, masculine plural magyars, feminine plural magyares)

magyare (feminine)
magyars (masculine plural)
magyares (feminine plural)


monochrome

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μονόχρωμος (monókhrōmos), from μόνος (mónos, “one”) + χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”). By surface analysis, mono- + chrome.


influent

fr-adj

influent (feminine influente, masculine plural influents, feminine plural influentes)

influente (feminine)
influents (masculine plural)
influentes (feminine plural)


mousse

Originally from a dialect south of the Loire, from Vulgar Latin *muttius (compare Occitan mos), of Gaulish origin, or alternatively from Latin mutilus (compare Italian mozzo).


suzerain

suzerain (feminine suzeraine, masculine plural suzerains, feminine plural suzeraines)

suzeraine (feminine)
suzerains (masculine plural)
suzeraines (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French suserain, suzerain, derived from sus (“on top, above”) by analogy with soverain.


chocolatier

chocolatier (feminine chocolatière, masculine plural chocolatiers, feminine plural chocolatières)

chocolatière (feminine)
chocolatiers (masculine plural)
chocolatières (feminine plural)


privé

privé (feminine privée, masculine plural privés, feminine plural privées)

privée (feminine)
privés (masculine plural)
privées (feminine plural)

→ Dutch: privé

Inherited from Old French privé, from Latin privātus.


vagal

vagal (feminine vagale, masculine plural vagaux, feminine plural vagales)

vagale (feminine)
vagaux (masculine plural)
vagales (feminine plural)


doucet

doucet (feminine doucette, masculine plural doucets, feminine plural doucettes)

doucette (feminine)
doucets (masculine plural)
doucettes (feminine plural)


outré

outré (feminine outrée, masculine plural outrés, feminine plural outrées)

outrée (feminine)
outrés (masculine plural)
outrées (feminine plural)


demi

demi (feminine demie, masculine plural demis, feminine plural demies)

demie (feminine)
demis (masculine plural)
demies (feminine plural)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *dimedius, from Latin dīmidius.


arabesque

(obsolete, relational) Arabic (of Arabic peoples)


hadal

hadal (feminine hadale, masculine plural hadaux, feminine plural hadales)

hadale (feminine)
hadaux (masculine plural)
hadales (feminine plural)


bon marché

bon marché (invariable, comparative meilleur marché)

Compare Italian a buon mercato (“cheap”), Dutch goedkoop (“cheap”), German wohlfeil.


entrouvert

entrouvert (feminine entrouverte, masculine plural entrouverts, feminine plural entrouvertes)

entrouverte (feminine)
entrouverts (masculine plural)
entrouvertes (feminine plural)


binominal

binominal (feminine binominale, masculine plural binominaux, feminine plural binominales)

binominale (feminine)
binominaux (masculine plural)
binominales (feminine plural)


levant

levant (feminine levante, masculine plural levants, feminine plural levantes)

levante (feminine)
levants (masculine plural)
levantes (feminine plural)

Participle adjective of lever (“to raise”). Corresponds to Latin levantem (“raising”), in reference to the rising of the sun; compare Italian levante.


humble

From Old French, from Latin humilis (“low, slight, hence mean, humble”) (compare Greek χαμαλός (khamalós, “on the ground, low, trifling”)), from humus (“the earth, ground”), humi (“on the ground”).


primordial

fr-adj

primordial (feminine primordiale, masculine plural primordiaux, feminine plural primordiales)

primordiale (feminine)
primordiaux (masculine plural)
primordiales (feminine plural)

Learned borrowing from Latin prīmōrdiālis (“of the beginning”).

lbor

soupe primordiale

vital, essential, paramount, of paramount importance


propre

Inherited from Old French propre, borrowed from Latin proprius.

C’est ma propre maison

une maison propre

proper, specific, particular [with à ‘to’]

valeur propre


austral

fr-adj

austral (feminine australe, masculine plural austraux, feminine plural australes)

australe (feminine)
austraux (masculine plural)
australes (feminine plural)


too much

Tu vas gueuler que c’est too much ; que je sors de l’admissible.

1995, Frédéric Dard, Les huîtres me font bâiller:

You're going to yell that this is too much – that I've gone beyond the bounds of probability.

Oh ben volontiers un de chaque, mais pas le slip dentelle avec les jarretelles rouges, ça fait un peu too much.

2013 May 31, Emmanuèle Peyret, “Tu me prètes ton soutif, cheri?”, in Libération, archived from the original on 2013-06-08:

Go on then, one of each – but not the lace knickers with red suspenders, that's a bit OTT.


cri

cri (feminine crie, masculine plural cris, feminine plural cries)

crie (feminine)
cris (masculine plural)
cries (feminine plural)

Clipping of Christenaux (now Knistenaux), from Cree Kenisteniwuik (the name of a Cree village).


avant-dernier

avant-dernier (feminine avant-dernière, masculine plural avant-derniers, feminine plural avant-dernières)

avant-dernière (feminine)
avant-derniers (masculine plural)
avant-dernières (feminine plural)

From avant (“before”) + dernier (“last”).

l’avant-dernier exemple

penultimate, second-to-last, last but one


multinational

multinational (feminine multinationale, masculine plural multinationaux, feminine plural multinationales)

multinationale (feminine)
multinationaux (masculine plural)
multinationales (feminine plural)


marin

marin (feminine marine, masculine plural marins, feminine plural marines)

marine (feminine)
marins (masculine plural)
marines (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French marin, from Old French marin, from Latin marīnus.


erratique

Inherited from Old French erratique, borrowed from Latin erraticus.


communal

communal (feminine communale, masculine plural communaux, feminine plural communales)

communale (feminine)
communaux (masculine plural)
communales (feminine plural)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin commūnālis, from Latin commūnis (whence commun). By surface analysis, commune + -al.


malchanceux

fr-adj

malchanceux (feminine malchanceuse, masculine plural malchanceux, feminine plural malchanceuses)

malchanceuse (feminine)
malchanceux (masculine plural)
malchanceuses (feminine plural)


chanceux

chanceux (feminine chanceuse, masculine plural chanceux, feminine plural chanceuses)

chanceuse (feminine)
chanceux (masculine plural)
chanceuses (feminine plural)

→ Franco-Provençal: chanciox

From chance (“good luck, fortune”) + -eux.


fortuné

fortuné (feminine fortunée, masculine plural fortunés, feminine plural fortunées)

fortunée (feminine)
fortunés (masculine plural)
fortunées (feminine plural)

From Latin fortūnātus. By surface analysis, fortune + -é in the form of a past participle.


irritant

irritant (feminine irritante, masculine plural irritants, feminine plural irritantes)

irritante (feminine)
irritants (masculine plural)
irritantes (feminine plural)


orchestral

orchestral (feminine orchestrale, masculine plural orchestraux, feminine plural orchestrales)

orchestrale (feminine)
orchestraux (masculine plural)
orchestrales (feminine plural)


somali

somali (feminine somalie, masculine plural somalis, feminine plural somalies)

somalie (feminine)
somalis (masculine plural)
somalies (feminine plural)


conclu

conclu (feminine conclue, masculine plural conclus, feminine plural conclues)

conclue (feminine)
conclus (masculine plural)
conclues (feminine plural)


cranial

cranial (feminine craniale, masculine plural craniaux, feminine plural craniales)

craniale (feminine)
craniaux (masculine plural)
craniales (feminine plural)


soumis

soumis (feminine soumise, masculine plural soumis, feminine plural soumises)

soumise (feminine)
soumis (masculine plural)
soumises (feminine plural)


prochain

prochain (feminine prochaine, masculine plural prochains, feminine plural prochaines)

prochaine (feminine)
prochains (masculine plural)
prochaines (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French prochain, from Vulgar Latin *propeānus, derived from Latin prope (“near”). Cognate with Sardinian probianu.

la prochaine fois, la fois prochaine

à la prochaine occasion


coronal

coronal (feminine coronale, masculine plural coronaux, feminine plural coronales)

coronale (feminine)
coronaux (masculine plural)
coronales (feminine plural)

From Latin corōnālis, from corōna (“a crown”).

(anatomy, astronomy, botany, phonetics) coronal


recombinant

recombinant (feminine recombinante, masculine plural recombinants, feminine plural recombinantes)

recombinante (feminine)
recombinants (masculine plural)
recombinantes (feminine plural)


appelant

appelant (feminine appelante, masculine plural appelants, feminine plural appelantes)

appelante (feminine)
appelants (masculine plural)
appelantes (feminine plural)


bruxellois

bruxellois (feminine bruxelloise, masculine plural bruxellois, feminine plural bruxelloises)

bruxelloise (feminine)
bruxellois (masculine plural)
bruxelloises (feminine plural)


ghanéen

ghanéen (feminine ghanéenne, masculine plural ghanéens, feminine plural ghanéennes)

ghanéenne (feminine)
ghanéens (masculine plural)
ghanéennes (feminine plural)


hydrothermal

hydrothermal (feminine hydrothermale, masculine plural hydrothermaux, feminine plural hydrothermales)

hydrothermale (feminine)
hydrothermaux (masculine plural)
hydrothermales (feminine plural)


soigné

soigné (feminine soignée, masculine plural soignés, feminine plural soignées)

soignée (feminine)
soignés (masculine plural)
soignées (feminine plural)

immaculate (of clothes, etc.); well-manicured (nails)


hypervalent

hypervalent (feminine hypervalente, masculine plural hypervalents, feminine plural hypervalentes)

hypervalente (feminine)
hypervalents (masculine plural)
hypervalentes (feminine plural)


naïf

naïf (feminine naïve, masculine plural naïfs, feminine plural naïves)

naïve (feminine)
naïfs (masculine plural)
naïves (feminine plural)

→ Dutch: naïef

→ English: naïf

→ Greek: ναΐφ (naḯf)

→ Italian: naïf

→ Malay: naif

→ Portuguese: naïf

→ Spanish: naif

→ Turkish: naif

Inherited from Old French naïf, inherited from Latin nātīvus. Doublet of natif. Semantical shift from "original; natural; simple" to "simple-minded".

Il est vraiment naïf, il a gobé tout ce qu’ils lui ont raconté.

He is really naive; he swallowed everything that they told him.

Habituellement, on déteste ce qui nous est semblable, et nos propres défauts vus du dehors nous exaspèrent. Combien plus encore quand quelqu’un qui a passé l’âge où on les exprime naïvement et qui, par exemple, s’est fait dans les moments les plus brûlants un visage de glace, exècre-t-il les mêmes défauts, si c’est un autre, plus jeune, ou plus naïf, ou plus sot, qui les exprime !

1923, Marcel Proust, translated by Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff, La prisonnière:

As a general rule, we detest what resembles ourself, and our own faults when observed in another person infuriate us. How much the more does a man who has passed the age at which we instinctively display them, a man who, for instance, has gone through the most burning moments with an icy countenance, execrate those same faults, if it is another man, younger or simpler or stupider, that is displaying them.


cris

plural of cri; masculine plural of crie; masculine of cries


domestique

Learned borrowing from Latin domesticus (“of the house, domestic; familiar; native”), from domus (“home, house; place of one's birth or residence, native country”).


radial

fr-adj

radial (feminine radiale, masculine plural radiaux, feminine plural radiales)

radiale (feminine)
radiaux (masculine plural)
radiales (feminine plural)


fractal

fractal (feminine fractale, masculine plural fractals or fractaux, feminine plural fractales)

fractale (feminine)
fractals (masculine plural)
fractaux (masculine plural)
fractales (feminine plural)

Coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975, from Latin fractus + -al.


torse

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


sikh

fr-adj

sikh (feminine sikhe, masculine plural sikhs, feminine plural sikhes)

sikhe (feminine)
sikhs (masculine plural)
sikhes (feminine plural)


mahorais

mahorais (feminine mahoraise, masculine plural mahorais, feminine plural mahoraises)

mahoraise (feminine)
mahorais (masculine plural)
mahoraises (feminine plural)


zambien

zambien (feminine zambienne, masculine plural zambiens, feminine plural zambiennes)

zambienne (feminine)
zambiens (masculine plural)
zambiennes (feminine plural)


qatari

qatari (feminine qatarie, masculine plural qataris, feminine plural qataries)

qatarie (feminine)
qataris (masculine plural)
qataries (feminine plural)


ougandais

ougandais (feminine ougandaise, masculine plural ougandais, feminine plural ougandaises)

ougandaise (feminine)
ougandais (masculine plural)
ougandaises (feminine plural)


crie

cri + -e; Clipping of Christenaux. (now "Knistenaux"), from Cree Kenisteniwuik (the name of a Cree village)


pyrénéen

pyrénéen (feminine pyrénéenne, masculine plural pyrénéens, feminine plural pyrénéennes)

pyrénéenne (feminine)
pyrénéens (masculine plural)
pyrénéennes (feminine plural)


yéménite

Romanian: yemenit


censorial

censorial (feminine censoriale, masculine plural censoriaux, feminine plural censoriales)

censoriale (feminine)
censoriaux (masculine plural)
censoriales (feminine plural)


espagnol

espagnol (feminine espagnole, masculine plural espagnols, feminine plural espagnoles)

espagnole (feminine)
espagnols (masculine plural)
espagnoles (feminine plural)

From Spanish español or from Middle French espaignol, from Old French espagneul or espaigneul, borrowed from Old Occitan espaignol, espainol, from a Vulgar Latin *Hispaniolus, from Latin Hispānus, from Hispania. Doublet of épagneul.

L’Inquisition espagnole s’appelle ainsi parce qu’elle était la contribution -ardente- de l’état espagnol à la lutte contre l’hérésie

The Spanish Inquisition was thus named because it was the -ardent- contribution of the Spanish state to the fight against heresy

Spanish, from or otherwise related to Spain, its people etc.


damnable

Inherited from Old French dampnable, from Latin damnābilis. By surface analysis, damner + -able.


xylophage

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ξυλοφάγος (xulophágos), from ξύλον (xúlon, “wood”) and φάγος (phágos, “one who eats”). By surface analysis, xylo- + -phage.

bor+

(biology, of insects or mushrooms) xylophagous


suisse

From Suisse. The meaning "guard" is a metonymic reference to the practice of hiring Swiss mercenaries to serve as guards at European courts. The meaning "chipmunk" derives from the rodent's stripes, reminiscent of the striped uniform of the Swiss Guard.

Swiss (of, from or relating to Switzerland)


sis

fr-adj

sis (feminine sise, masculine plural sis, feminine plural sises)

sise (feminine)
sis (masculine plural)
sises (feminine plural)

Par les larges hublots du lab, sis au sixième étage, la vue dominait une mer orangée de tuiles en terre cuite qui rappelaient que cette ville avait été, avant d’être « civinisée », une plutôt avenante cité provençale.

2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 4, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:

The view from the lab's big windows, located on the sixth floor, overlooked a sea of orange terracotta tiles, which were a reminder that before it was "civinized", this had been a rather charming Provençal town.


café au lait

une peau café au lait


flagrant

flagrant (feminine flagrante, masculine plural flagrants, feminine plural flagrantes)

flagrante (feminine)
flagrants (masculine plural)
flagrantes (feminine plural)

C’est flagrant.

flagrant, blatant, glaring, obvious, evident


quelle

C'est quelle femme ?

feminine singular of quel:
(exclamation) What a ...!


septentrional

septentrional (feminine septentrionale, masculine plural septentrionaux, feminine plural septentrionales)

septentrionale (feminine)
septentrionaux (masculine plural)
septentrionales (feminine plural)

northern (facing, situated in or related to the north); septentrional, boreal


sain

sain (feminine saine, masculine plural sains, feminine plural saines)

saine (feminine)
sains (masculine plural)
saines (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French sain, from Latin sānus, from Proto-Indo-European *swā-n- (“healthy; whole; active; vigorous”).

der

healthful; beneficial to health of body or mind


rutilant

fr-adj

rutilant (feminine rutilante, masculine plural rutilants, feminine plural rutilantes)

rutilante (feminine)
rutilants (masculine plural)
rutilantes (feminine plural)


furibond

furibond (feminine furibonde, masculine plural furibonds, feminine plural furibondes)

furibonde (feminine)
furibonds (masculine plural)
furibondes (feminine plural)

Learned borrowing from Latin furibundus.


musulman

musulman (feminine musulmane, masculine plural musulmans, feminine plural musulmanes)

musulmane (feminine)
musulmans (masculine plural)
musulmanes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French, from Ottoman Turkish مسلمان (Müslüman, “Muslim”), from Persian مسلمان (mosalmân, “Muslim”), from Arabic مُسْلِم (muslim, “Muslim”).


monoclonal

fr-adj

monoclonal (feminine monoclonale, masculine plural monoclonaux, feminine plural monoclonales)

monoclonale (feminine)
monoclonaux (masculine plural)
monoclonales (feminine plural)


commode

→ German: kommod


malheureux

malheureux (feminine malheureuse, masculine plural malheureux, feminine plural malheureuses)

malheureuse (feminine)
malheureux (masculine plural)
malheureuses (feminine plural)

From mal- + heureux. Cognate with Piedmontese maleureus, maleuros.


bénit

bénit (feminine bénite, masculine plural bénits, feminine plural bénites)

bénite (feminine)
bénits (masculine plural)
bénites (feminine plural)

eau bénite

pain bénit

médaille bénite

cul-bénit


rance

Old (14th century), borrowed from Latin rancidus. Doublet of rancio.


canin

canin (feminine canine, masculine plural canins, feminine plural canines)

canine (feminine)
canins (masculine plural)
canines (feminine plural)


critique

German: kritisch

From Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós).

La situation est à présent plus que critique.

The situation is currently more than urgent.


volant

volant (feminine volante, masculine plural volants, feminine plural volantes)

volante (feminine)
volants (masculine plural)
volantes (feminine plural)

soucoupe volante

tapis volant


faible

Inherited from Middle French foible, from Old French feble, foible, from Vulgar Latin *febilis, dissimilated form of Latin flēbilis. Doublet of flébile, a borrowing. Compare English feeble.


tendre

Inherited from Old French tendre, from Latin tenerum, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”).


libidinal

fr-adj

libidinal (feminine libidinale, masculine plural libidinaux, feminine plural libidinales)

libidinale (feminine)
libidinaux (masculine plural)
libidinales (feminine plural)


dur

dur (feminine dure, masculine plural durs, feminine plural dures)

dure (feminine)
durs (masculine plural)
dures (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French, from Latin dūrus, from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *drew- (“hard, fast”).

c’est quand le jeu devient dur que les durs commencent à jouer


pentagonal

pentagonal (feminine pentagonale, masculine plural pentagonaux, feminine plural pentagonales)

pentagonale (feminine)
pentagonaux (masculine plural)
pentagonales (feminine plural)


courant

courant (feminine courante, masculine plural courants, feminine plural courantes)

courante (feminine)
courants (masculine plural)
courantes (feminine plural)

Present participle of courir; in Old French corant. Corresponds to Latin currentem.


monumental

monumental (feminine monumentale, masculine plural monumentaux, feminine plural monumentales)

monumentale (feminine)
monumentaux (masculine plural)
monumentales (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Late Latin monumentālis, from Latin monumentum. By surface analysis, monument + -al.


limite

Une blague un peu limite

(colloquial) edgy, borderline, almost objectionable


inexplicable

From Latin inexplicābilis. By surface analysis, in- + explicable.


mignon

mignon (feminine mignonne, masculine plural mignons, feminine plural mignonnes)

mignonne (feminine)
mignons (masculine plural)
mignonnes (feminine plural)

→ English: mignon

→ Italian: mignon

→ Portuguese: mignon

→ Turkish: minyon

Inherited from Middle French mignon, from Old French mignon (“dainty, pleasing, gentle, kind”), from Frankish *minnjo (“love, friendship, affection, memory”), from Proto-Germanic *minþijō, *mindijō (“affectionate thought, care”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *mnā- (“to think”). Cognate with Old High German minna (“love, care, affection, desire, memory”), Old Saxon minnia (“love”), Old Dutch minna (Dutch min). More at mind.


vernal

fr-adj

vernal (feminine vernale, masculine plural vernaux, feminine plural vernales)

vernale (feminine)
vernaux (masculine plural)
vernales (feminine plural)


vicariant

vicariant (feminine vicariante, masculine plural vicariants, feminine plural vicariantes)

vicariante (feminine)
vicariants (masculine plural)
vicariantes (feminine plural)


amical

amical (feminine amicale, masculine plural amicaux, feminine plural amicales)

amicale (feminine)
amicaux (masculine plural)
amicales (feminine plural)

À la suite de mes rapports sexuels avec un condisciple et ami de longue date, rapports qui n’ont commencé que pendant notre séjour à l’Université et après sept ans de relations amicales, le penchant pour les satisfactions anormales du libido s’est renforcé en moi.

1895, R. von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis:

After I had sexual relations with a longstanding friend and fellow student, relations which only began during our time at university and after seven years of friendship [friendly relations], my penchant for satisfying my libido in abnormal ways grew.


européen

européen (feminine européenne, masculine plural européens, feminine plural européennes)

européenne (feminine)
européens (masculine plural)
européennes (feminine plural)

Haitian Creole: ewopeyen

→ Albanian: evropian

→ Romanian: european


terrier

terrier (feminine terrière, masculine plural terriers, feminine plural terrières)

terrière (feminine)
terriers (masculine plural)
terrières (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French, from Medieval Latin terrārius (“of earth”) from Latin terra (“earth”); or equivalent to terre + -ier. Most terrier breeds were developed to hunt vermin both over and under the ground.

(archaic, relational) ground, earth, land

enumerating seignorial rights, notably in livre terrier (“land register”)


pire

Inherited from Middle French pire, from Old French pire, from Latin peior, from Proto-Indo-European *ped-yōs (“to the ground, downward”). Related to pis.

inh

il n’est pire aveugle que celui qui ne veut pas voir

il n’est pire sourd que celui qui ne veut pas entendre


occupé

fr-adj

occupé (feminine occupée, masculine plural occupés, feminine plural occupées)

occupée (feminine)
occupés (masculine plural)
occupées (feminine plural)

La place est occupée.


indulgent

indulgent (feminine indulgente, masculine plural indulgents, feminine plural indulgentes)

indulgente (feminine)
indulgents (masculine plural)
indulgentes (feminine plural)


architectural

architectural (feminine architecturale, masculine plural architecturaux, feminine plural architecturales)

architecturale (feminine)
architecturaux (masculine plural)
architecturales (feminine plural)


rapide

Borrowed from Latin rapidus. Compare the inherited Old French rade.


rangé

rangé (feminine rangée, masculine plural rangés, feminine plural rangées)

rangée (feminine)
rangés (masculine plural)
rangées (feminine plural)

une chambre rangée

petite vie bien rangée, mener une vie bien rangée

to live a quiet life, to live a well-ordered life

Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée

rangé des voitures

settled down, behaving acceptably, on the straight and narrow

(figuratively) orderly, quiet, uneventful

bataille rangée


enceinte

enceinte f (feminine only, feminine plural enceintes)

English: enceinte

Inherited from Old French enceinte, from Latin incīncta, feminine past participle of incingō. Compare Italian incinta, Spanish and Catalan encinta.


beaujolais

beaujolais (feminine beaujolaise, masculine plural beaujolais, feminine plural beaujolaises)

beaujolaise (feminine)
beaujolais (masculine plural)
beaujolaises (feminine plural)


chéri

chéri (feminine chérie, masculine plural chéris, feminine plural chéries)

chérie (feminine)
chéris (masculine plural)
chéries (feminine plural)


monégasque

Borrowed from Ligurian munegascu, from Munegu.


flavescent

flavescent (feminine flavescente, masculine plural flavescents, feminine plural flavescentes)

flavescente (feminine)
flavescents (masculine plural)
flavescentes (feminine plural)


vivant

vivant (feminine vivante, masculine plural vivants, feminine plural vivantes)

vivante (feminine)
vivants (masculine plural)
vivantes (feminine plural)

Present participle of vivre, probably a calque of Latin vīventem.

Je croyais qu’il était mort, mais il est encore vivant.

I thought he was dead, but he is still alive.

une langue vivante

un fossile vivant

un tableau vivant

a tableau vivant (posed scene resembling a painting)


habile

From Latin habilis (“suitable; apt”), from habeō (“to handle”).


mayoral

mayoral (feminine mayorale, masculine plural mayoraux, feminine plural mayorales)

mayorale (feminine)
mayoraux (masculine plural)
mayorales (feminine plural)


latitudinal

latitudinal (feminine latitudinale, masculine plural latitudinaux, feminine plural latitudinales)

latitudinale (feminine)
latitudinaux (masculine plural)
latitudinales (feminine plural)

Coordinate term: longitudinal


collant

collant (feminine collante, masculine plural collants, feminine plural collantes)

collante (feminine)
collants (masculine plural)
collantes (feminine plural)

(figuratively, of a person, informal) hard to shake off; clingy, clinging


joué

joué (feminine jouée, masculine plural joués, feminine plural jouées)

jouée (feminine)
joués (masculine plural)
jouées (feminine plural)

Je comprends alors la passion, la folie, la duperie des récits de voyage. Ils apportent l’illusion de ce qui n’existe plus et qui devrait être encore, pour que nous échappions à l’accablante évidence que vingt mille ans d’histoire sont joués.

1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, chapter VII, in Tristes Tropiques, Plon, published 1993, →ISBN, page 67; republished as John & Doreen Weightman, transl., Tristes Tropiques, Penguin, 2011, →ISBN:

— So I can understand the mad passion for travel books and their deceptiveness. They create the illusion of something which no longer exists but still should exist, if we were to have any hope of avoiding the overwhelming conclusion that the history of the past twenty thousand years is irrevocable.


ancien

ancien (feminine ancienne, masculine plural anciens, feminine plural anciennes)

ancienne (feminine)
anciens (masculine plural)
anciennes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French ancien, from Old French anciien, from Vulgar Latin *anteānus.

Ancien Régime

the Ancien Régime, the period before the French Revolution

Ancien Testament

ancienne école

Mon ancien petit ami m’a plaquée.

(always placed before the noun) old, former, ex- (no longer current)

Near-synonym: vieux

le grec ancien

l’ancien français

l’arménien ancien

l’ancien occitan ― Old Occitan

Elle a acheté une maison ancienne.

(usually placed after the noun) ancient (very old)


maladroit

maladroit (feminine maladroite, masculine plural maladroits, feminine plural maladroites)

maladroite (feminine)
maladroits (masculine plural)
maladroites (feminine plural)

English: maladroit

Une revanche très maladroite et inopportune puisque les élus brillent par leur absence et les ingénieurs, informaticiens, physiciens et autres ne déméritent aucunement.

2004 January 16, “Éditorial : Un cautère sur une jambe de bois”, in Aujourd'hui:


aidant

aidant (feminine aidante, masculine plural aidants, feminine plural aidantes)

aidante (feminine)
aidants (masculine plural)
aidantes (feminine plural)


coupé

coupé (feminine coupée, masculine plural coupés, feminine plural coupées)

coupée (feminine)
coupés (masculine plural)
coupées (feminine plural)

(heraldry) divided into two equal parts horizontally, per fess; said of an escutcheon


prescient

prescient (feminine presciente, masculine plural prescients, feminine plural prescientes)

presciente (feminine)
prescients (masculine plural)
prescientes (feminine plural)


capon

capon (feminine caponne, masculine plural capons, feminine plural caponnes)

caponne (feminine)
capons (masculine plural)
caponnes (feminine plural)


tamoul

tamoul (feminine tamoule, masculine plural tamouls, feminine plural tamoules)

tamoule (feminine)
tamouls (masculine plural)
tamoules (feminine plural)

From the colloquial pronunciation of Tamil தமிழ் (tamiḻ), pronounced /t̪ɐmʊɭ/.


gourde

Influenced by the adjective gourd (“clumsy”).


intransigeant

intransigeant (feminine intransigeante, masculine plural intransigeants, feminine plural intransigeantes)

intransigeante (feminine)
intransigeants (masculine plural)
intransigeantes (feminine plural)

desctree

→ English: intransigent
→ German: intransigent

→ Romanian: intransigent

/ɛ̃.tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒɑ̃/

Borrowed from Spanish intransigente at the end of the nineteenth century. By surface analysis, in- + transiger + -ant, literally “uncompromising”.

surface analysis

Il est intransigeant sur la qualité du travail accompli.

He is uncompromising about the quality of the work done.


ras

fr-adj

ras (feminine rase, masculine plural ras, feminine plural rases)

rase (feminine)
ras (masculine plural)
rases (feminine plural)

From Old French rés (remodelled after raser), itself from Latin rāsus. Doublet of rez.


bienvenue

Literally, “well come”, from Old French bienvenue; compare also bienvenu (without the -e). Presumably a calque of an Old Frankish term, from Proto-Germanic *wiljakwemô (“a welcome guest or arrival”), from which many modern Germanic forms descend, as English welcome.
Interjection sense #2 is a recent semantic loan from English you're welcome found only in Canada; English “you’re welcome” dates from early 20th century, French Canadian usage correspondingly later.


intestinal

fr-adj

intestinal (feminine intestinale, masculine plural intestinaux, feminine plural intestinales)

intestinale (feminine)
intestinaux (masculine plural)
intestinales (feminine plural)


intestin

intestin (feminine intestine, masculine plural intestins, feminine plural intestines)

intestine (feminine)
intestins (masculine plural)
intestines (feminine plural)

Learned borrowing from Latin intestīnus.

des conflits intestins

une guerre intestine


mol

form of mou used in the masculine singular before a vowel sound


brut

brut (feminine brute, masculine plural bruts, feminine plural brutes)

brute (feminine)
bruts (masculine plural)
brutes (feminine plural)

→ English: brut

→ German: brut

→ Turkish: brüt

Inherited from Middle French brut, from Old French brut, from Latin brūtus (“heavy, dull”).

produit national brut

sucre brut

Coordinate term: sec


aise

Inherited from Middle French aise, from Old French aise, eise, probably derived from the nominative form of Latin adiacēns, present participle of adiaceō (compare Medieval Latin in aiace). If so, then cognate with Old Occitan aize; compare also Catalan eina, Italian agio, a borrowing from Occitan, doublet of adjacent, a learned borrowing. Compare also Frankish *ansiju (“loop, handle, arms akimbo, elbow room”).


enchanté

fr-adj

enchanté (feminine enchantée, masculine plural enchantés, feminine plural enchantées)

enchantée (feminine)
enchantés (masculine plural)
enchantées (feminine plural)


gracile

Borrowed from Latin gracilis. Doublet of grêle.


allumé

allumé (feminine allumée, masculine plural allumés, feminine plural allumées)

allumée (feminine)
allumés (masculine plural)
allumées (feminine plural)

[…] un flambeau de sa., allumé d’or.

1887, Johannes Baptista Rietstap, Armorial général: précédé d'un dictionnaire des termes du blason, page 481:

(of a device) on, turned on, switched on

(of a person, slang) crazy, weird, eccentric, wacko

3. Dauphiné. — D’azur au dauphin d’or, crêté, barbé et allumé de gueules. (Il faudrait d’or au dauphin d’azur.) […] 4. Dauphiné-Faucigny. — D’or au dauphin d’azur, crêté, barbé et allumé de gueules, portant suspendu à son col un petit écu de Faucigny, […]

1893, Réunion des sociétés savantes des départements à la Sorbonne: 1877 - 1880, page 764:

(heraldry) with its eyes bright (and a specified color)


distrait

distrait (feminine distraite, masculine plural distraits, feminine plural distraites)

distraite (feminine)
distraits (masculine plural)
distraites (feminine plural)

From Old French destrait, past participle of destraire (modern distraire), from Latin distrahō (“to distract”).


amstellodamois

amstellodamois (feminine amstellodamoise, masculine plural amstellodamois, feminine plural amstellodamoises)

amstellodamoise (feminine)
amstellodamois (masculine plural)
amstellodamoises (feminine plural)


voisin

voisin (feminine voisine, masculine plural voisins, feminine plural voisines)

voisine (feminine)
voisins (masculine plural)
voisines (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French voisin, veisin, from Late Latin vēcīnus, from Latin vīcīnus.

inh+

Je n’avais aucune nouvelle de la situation politique dans notre pauvre pays, je ne savais pas ce que j’allais trouver en y foulant son sol, si nous arrivions à passer la frontière du pays voisin sans nous faire arrêter.

2015, Claude Nativel, Comme le phénix...:

I had had no news of the political situation in our poor country. I did not know what I would find when I set foot there; if, that is, we managed to cross the border from a neighbouring country without being arrested.


guttural

fr-adj

guttural (feminine gutturale, masculine plural gutturaux, feminine plural gutturales)

gutturale (feminine)
gutturaux (masculine plural)
gutturales (feminine plural)

Learned borrowing from New Latin gutturālis.


prandial

fr-adj

prandial (feminine prandiale, masculine plural prandiaux, feminine plural prandiales)

prandiale (feminine)
prandiaux (masculine plural)
prandiales (feminine plural)

Romanian: prandial

Borrowed from Late Latin prandiālis or Latin prandium.


issu

issu (feminine issue, masculine plural issus, feminine plural issues)

issue (feminine)
issus (masculine plural)
issues (feminine plural)

Past participle of the Old French issir (displaced by Modern French sortir), inherited from Latin exeō.

De ce mariage sont issus beaucoup d’enfants.

Many children were conceived in this marriage.

Il est issu de la famille des Bourbons.

He sprang from the family of the Bourbons.


ossu

ossu (feminine ossue, masculine plural ossus, feminine plural ossues)

ossue (feminine)
ossus (masculine plural)
ossues (feminine plural)


sien

sien (feminine sienne, masculine plural siens, feminine plural siennes)

sienne (feminine)
siens (masculine plural)
siennes (feminine plural)

(archaic) his (that which belongs to him); her (that which belongs to her)


nouvel

Je souhaiterais que tu sois là pour le nouvel an.

Form of nouveau (“new”) used before a masculine noun that starts with a vowel sound.


mutin

mutin (feminine mutine, masculine plural mutins, feminine plural mutines)

mutine (feminine)
mutins (masculine plural)
mutines (feminine plural)

Elle eut un sourire mutin.


étroit

étroit (feminine étroite, masculine plural étroits, feminine plural étroites)

étroite (feminine)
étroits (masculine plural)
étroites (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French estroit, inherited from Latin strictus. Doublet of strict. Cf. also étreint. Compare Spanish estrecho and Portuguese estreito.


épais

épais (feminine épaisse, masculine plural épais, feminine plural épaisses)

épaisse (feminine)
épais (masculine plural)
épaisses (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French espés, from Old French espés, from Latin spissus, from Proto-Indo-European *spidtos.

un livre épais

des cheveux épais

une épaisse fumée

Les Béotiens, les plus épais de tous les Grecs, prenaient le moins de part qu’ils pouvaient aux affaires générales.

1734, Montesquieu, Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence:

The Boeotians, the dullest of all the Greeks, took the least part they could in general affairs.

(literary or Quebec, informal) stupid, thick


mâle

Inherited from Middle French masle, from Old French masle, from Vulgar Latin masclus, contracted form of Latin masculus.


tapi

tapi (feminine tapie, masculine plural tapis, feminine plural tapies)

tapie (feminine)
tapis (masculine plural)
tapies (feminine plural)


pensant

pensant (feminine pensante, masculine plural pensants, feminine plural pensantes)

pensante (feminine)
pensants (masculine plural)
pensantes (feminine plural)


clonal

clonal (feminine clonale, masculine plural clonaux, feminine plural clonales)

clonale (feminine)
clonaux (masculine plural)
clonales (feminine plural)


sauf

sauf (feminine sauve, masculine plural saufs, feminine plural sauves)

sauve (feminine)
saufs (masculine plural)
sauves (feminine plural)

From Old French salv, salf, inherited from Latin salvus. Cognate to Italian and Spanish salvo.


juste

Inherited from Old French juste, in this form probably borrowed from Latin iūstus, jūstus, from Proto-Italic *jowestos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-. The Old French form just may have been inherited, however, and perhaps later modified based on the Latin.

Elle n’est que trop juste en un si grand malheur

1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act I, scene I:

It is only too appropriate in such misfortune

quinte juste

quarte juste


étrange

From Middle French estrange, from Old French estrange, from Latin extrāneus.


chaude

La soupe est trop chaude.


ascendant

ascendant (feminine ascendante, masculine plural ascendants, feminine plural ascendantes)

ascendante (feminine)
ascendants (masculine plural)
ascendantes (feminine plural)

PIE word
 *h₂éd
From Old French ascendant, borrowed from Latin ascendentem, the accusative singular of ascendēns (“ascending, rising”), the present participle of ascendō, adscendō (“to climb up, go up, move upwards; to rise; to spring up”), from ad- (prefix meaning ‘(up) to’) + scandō (“to ascend, climb, mount; to clamber”) (from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to climb, scale; to dart; to jump; to scan (poetry)”)).


dru

fr-adj

dru (feminine drue, masculine plural drus, feminine plural drues)

drue (feminine)
drus (masculine plural)
drues (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Gaulish *drudos (“strong, vigorous”).


glouton

fr-adj

glouton (feminine gloutonne, masculine plural gloutons, feminine plural gloutonnes)

gloutonne (feminine)
gloutons (masculine plural)
gloutonnes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French glouton, from Late Latin gluttōnem.

Cet enfant a toujours été glouton.

Le loup est un animal glouton.

(of a man or animal) gluttonous; devouring or engulfing one's food greedily

Avec de prodigieuse vitesse de réaction, certaines enzymes sont gloutonnes en substrat.

With an extaordianry reaction rate, certain enzymes are gluttonous of their substrate.

(figuratively) gluttonous; having a great greed toward something


autocollant

autocollant (feminine autocollante, masculine plural autocollants, feminine plural autocollantes)

autocollante (feminine)
autocollants (masculine plural)
autocollantes (feminine plural)


chinook

chinook (feminine chinooke, masculine plural chinooks, feminine plural chinookes)

chinooke (feminine)
chinooks (masculine plural)
chinookes (feminine plural)


gargantuesque

From Gargantua + -esque, in reference to the incredible magnitude of Gargantua's appetite.

In an incredibly huge proportion; gargantuan


muet

muet (feminine muette, masculine plural muets, feminine plural muettes)

muette (feminine)
muets (masculine plural)
muettes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French mut, muet, from Old French mu, mut, mui, from Latin mūtus, of Proto-Indo-European origin.

« Le » et « la » deviennent « l’ » devant une voyelle ou un « h » muet.

Le and la become l' before a vowel or a silent "h".


familial

familial (feminine familiale, masculine plural familiaux, feminine plural familiales)

familiale (feminine)
familiaux (masculine plural)
familiales (feminine plural)

From Latin familia (whence French famille) + -al.

allocation familiale

quitter le nid familial

to leave home (literally, “to leave the family nest”)


gingival

gingival (feminine gingivale, masculine plural gingivaux, feminine plural gingivales)

gingivale (feminine)
gingivaux (masculine plural)
gingivales (feminine plural)


inconnu

inconnu (feminine inconnue, masculine plural inconnus, feminine plural inconnues)

inconnue (feminine)
inconnus (masculine plural)
inconnues (feminine plural)

Le hurling est un sport inconnu en dehors de l’Irlande.

The sport of hurling is unknown outside Ireland.


droite

Feminine form of droit. Compare Catalan dreta, Italian dritta, Portuguese direita, Spanish derecha, Romanian dreapta.


polonaise

Ma femme est moitié polonaise, moitié allemande.


inconstant

inconstant (feminine inconstante, masculine plural inconstants, feminine plural inconstantes)

inconstante (feminine)
inconstants (masculine plural)
inconstantes (feminine plural)


géant

géant (feminine géante, masculine plural géants, feminine plural géantes)

géante (feminine)
géants (masculine plural)
géantes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French gaiant, jaiant, jaianz, from Vulgar Latin *gagantem, through assimilation from Latin gigantem, from Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas, “giant”).


tardif

tardif (feminine tardive, masculine plural tardifs, feminine plural tardives)

tardive (feminine)
tardifs (masculine plural)
tardives (feminine plural)

→ English: tardy

Inherited from Old French tardif, from Late Latin tardīvus, from Latin tardus.


présent

présent (feminine présente, masculine plural présents, feminine plural présentes)

présente (feminine)
présents (masculine plural)
présentes (feminine plural)

present (that what/which is in the place talked about)


bistre

Attested since the 16th century; further etymology unknown.


pluripotent

pluripotent (feminine pluripotente, masculine plural pluripotents, feminine plural pluripotentes)

pluripotente (feminine)
pluripotents (masculine plural)
pluripotentes (feminine plural)


ocre

From Late Latin ochra, from Ancient Greek ὠχρός (ōkhrós, “yellow”) (modern Greek ωχρός (ochrós)).


caulescent

caulescent (feminine caulescente, masculine plural caulescents, feminine plural caulescentes)

caulescente (feminine)
caulescents (masculine plural)
caulescentes (feminine plural)


cochon

cochon (feminine cochonne, masculine plural cochons, feminine plural cochonnes)

cochonne (feminine)
cochons (masculine plural)
cochonnes (feminine plural)

Haitian Creole: kochon

Polish: amikoszoneria

Originally imitative of the noise a pig makes.

onomatopoeic

imitative


commensal

fr-adj

commensal (feminine commensale, masculine plural commensaux, feminine plural commensales)

commensale (feminine)
commensaux (masculine plural)
commensales (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin commēnsālis.


étranger

fr-adj

étranger (feminine étrangère, masculine plural étrangers, feminine plural étrangères)

étrangère (feminine)
étrangers (masculine plural)
étrangères (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French estranger, from Old French estrangier, from estrange + -ier, equivalent to modern French étrange + -er. Cf. also Vulgar Latin *extraneārius, Italian straniero, Portuguese estrangeiro.

Je ne suis pas étranger aux crises d’angoisse.

Je ne suis pas étranger à cette discipline.


joli

joli (feminine jolie, masculine plural jolis, feminine plural jolies)

jolie (feminine)
jolis (masculine plural)
jolies (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French joly (“considerable, ingenious, agreeable, pretty”), from Old French joli, jolif (“pretty, smart, joyful, merry”), possibly from Old Norse jól (midwinter festival), from Proto-Germanic *jehwlą, *jeulō (“Yule, Yule month, December”) (more at yule); alternatively from Vulgar Latin *gaudivus (from Latin gaudeō, more at joy).

inh+

Julie, fille jolie, un jour était allée
cueillir au cœur des blés la belle fleur des blés,
des bleuets pour s’en faire une couronne bleue,
se faire une couronne et se distraire un peu.

1980, Géza Képes, Béla Kàlmàn, Péter Domokos, Le pouvoir du chant : anthologie de la poésie populaire ouralienne:

Julie, a pretty girl, had gone one day
to pick among the wheat the beautiful flower of the cornfields,
cornflowers to make herself a blue wreath,
to make herself a wreath and amuse herself a little.

(Louisiana) jolly, nice, pleasant, agreeable


matrimonial

fr-adj

matrimonial (feminine matrimoniale, masculine plural matrimoniaux, feminine plural matrimoniales)

matrimoniale (feminine)
matrimoniaux (masculine plural)
matrimoniales (feminine plural)