lente

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *lenditem, alteration of Late Latin lendinem, itself an alteration of Classical Latin lendem.


race

desctree

→ German: Rasse
→ Czech: rasa
→ Polish: rasa
→ Serbo-Croatian: rasa
→ Slovene: rasa

→ Romanian: rasă

As Middle French rasse "entirety of ancestors and descendants of the same family or people", from ca. 1480,
spelling Middle French race recorded in 1549, from Italian razza (13th century), of uncertain origin (more at razza).


sole

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *sola, from Latin solea.


lion

Haitian Creole: lyon

Mauritian Creole: lyon

Seychellois Creole: lyon

Inherited from Old French lion, a semi-learned borrowing from Latin leōnem, from Ancient Greek λέων (léōn).


limousine

→ Dutch: limousine

→ English: limousine

→ German: Limousine

desc

→ Portuguese: limusine, limusina, limousine

→ Russian: лимузи́н (limuzín) (see there for further descendants)

→ Turkish: limuzin

From the name of the former French region Limousin, from Limoges. The naming of the car is sometimes attributed to Limoges-born engineer Charles Jeantaud.


casque

→ Bulgarian: ка́ска (káska)

→ English: casque

→ Romanian: cască

→ Russian: ка́ска (káska)

→ Turkish: kask

→ Ukrainian: ка́ска (káska)


vive

(ichthyology) any of certain kind of fish, mostly in the family Trachinidae, but especially the sand tilefish (Malacanthus plumieri) or the Guinean weever (Trachinus armatus) From FishBase


moule

Inherited from Old French moule, from Vulgar Latin *mŭsclus, from Latin mūsculus. Doublet of muscle.


triton

Learned borrowing from Latin Trītōn, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek Τρίτων (Trítōn).

triton rugueux


ganache

(veterinary medicine) cachexia, one of the symptoms of which is swelling under the mandible.


macule

Borrowed from Latin macula. Doublet of maille, which was inherited.

(rare and literary or sciences, astronomy, medicine, zoology) stain


plastron

→ Dutch: plastron

→ English: plastron

→ Polish: plastron

→ Romanian: plastron

(zoology) plastron (part of a turtle's shell)

(zoology) breast (front part of certain birds)


briquet

→ English: briquet

→ Spanish: briquet

→ Romanian: brichetă

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Specialised sense of Middle French briquet (“piece, morsel”), from brique.


arête

Inherited from Old French areste, from Latin arista.


vandoise

Borrowed from Gaulish *wind-ēsyā, from Proto-Celtic *windos (“white”) + a nominal suffix -ēsyā.


dague

→ Romanian: dagă

From Old French (13th century), from either Old Occitan or Italian daga.
The Catholicum Armoricum glosses Breton dac as French dague, Latin pugio, adding ou c'est badelaire (Du Cange).

(zoology) tusk (of wild boar), spike (of deer)


cabillaud

cabillauds (plural)
cabliau (alternative archaic)
cabeliau (alternative obsolete)
cabéliau (alternative obsolete)
cabiau (alternative obsolete)
cabillau (alternative obsolete)
câbliau (alternative obsolete)

→ Lingala: likáyabu

Inherited from Old French cabillau, from Middle Dutch cabeliau. Compare Modern Dutch kabeljauw, German Kabeljau.


truffe

→ Greek: τρούφα (troúfa)

→ Japanese: トリュフ

→ Romanian: trufă

From Old Occitan trufa, ultimately from Latin tuber.


julienne

→ Catalan: juliana

→ English: julienne

→ German: Julienne

→ Spanish: juliana


fouet

desctree

→ Catalan: fuet
→ English: fuet
→ Spanish: fuet

→ Italian: fuetto

→ Portuguese: fuê

From Middle French fouet, diminutive in -et of Old French fou (“beech”), from Latin fagus.
Since the morpheme boundary was no longer felt in Middle French, [u.ɛ] was contracted to [wɛ] and this later developed regularly to [wa] (as it did in oi, oe). The contemporary pronunciation was reinforced by the spelling and the desire to distinguish from foi, foie and fois.


hippocampe

Learned borrowing from Latin hippocampus, from Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος (hippókampos), from ἵππος (híppos, “horse”) + κάμπος (kámpos, “sea-monster”).


apode

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄποδος (ápodos), genitive of ἄπους (ápous). By surface analysis, a- + -pode.

bor+

Les serpents sont apodes.

Les amphisbènes sont un autre groupe de reptiles apodes.

Amphisbaenia is another group of limbless reptiles.

Les lézards apodes sont des lézards dont les pattes ont totalement ou en partie disparu au cours de l'évolution, au point de ne plus être utilisées lors de la locomotion.

Legless lizards are lizards whose legs have totally or partially disappeared in the course of evolution, to the point where they are no longer used for locomotion.

-pode

monopode/unipode, dipode, tétrapode, etc.

-pède

monopède/unipède, bipède, quadrupède, etc.

(zoology) legless, limbless; apodal, apodous; without limbs, feet, paws, etc.

lacking limbs, (by extension) having highly devolved vestigial limbs (of a lifeform)

De nombreux reptiles ont évolué vers une forme apode.

Many reptiles have evolved into a limbless form.

Le processus évolutif transformant des lézards quadrupèdes en formes apodes se traduit par trois grandes caractéristiques : […]

The evolutionary process which transforms quadrupedal lizards into legless ones is characterized by three major tendencies: […]

Les serpents ont perfectionné plusieurs modes de locomotion apode.

Snakes have perfected several methods of limbless locomotion.

performed or accomplished without use of or need for limbs


diapause

(biology, entomology, ichthyology) diapause


crête

Inherited from Old French creste, from Latin crista.

(zoology) crest (on a bird); comb (on a cock)


mammalogie

fr-noun

mammalogie f (usually uncountable, plural mammalogies)

(zoology) mammalogy (branch of zoology which aims to study mammals)


abajoue

(anatomy, zoology) a pouch in the cheek of some animals, usually used to carry food; a cheek pouch


bocal

→ English: bocal


marabout

marabouts (plural)
marabou (alternative)

→ Catalan: marabú

→ English: marabout

→ Spanish: marabú

(zoology) marabou, stork of the Leptoptilos genus


merlan

Earlier merle, borrowed from Latin merula.


brève

(zoology) pitta; any bird belonging to the passerine family Pittidae


brème

→ Portuguese: brema

Inherited from Old French braisme, from Frankish *brahsima (compare Dutch brasem), from West Germanic *brahsmō, from Proto-Germanic *brahsmǭ, *brahsinō, *brahsmaz (“bream”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brehwanaz (“shining, glittery, sparkly”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerek- (“to shine”) (see English braid (verb)).

der

(ichthyology) bream (fish of the genus Abramis)


huppe

From Latin upupa, via the syncopated Vulgar Latin ūppa.

C’est un assez grand oiseau, de 45 cent. de long, au plumage blanc éclatant. La huppe, les plumes qui recouvrent les oreilles, le milieu du ventre, les ailes et la partie radicale de la face interne des pennes caudales sont jaunes de soufre pâle ; le bec est noir ; les pattes sont d’un brun grisâtre.

1873, A. E. Brehm, “Le cacatoës à huppe jaune [The sulphur-crested cockatoo]”, in La vie des animaux:

It is a fairly large bird, 45 cm. in length, with sparkling white plumage. The crest, the ear coverts, the centre of the belly, the wings and the base of the underside of the tail feathers are pale sulphur-yellow; the beak is black; the feet are greyish-brown.

(zoology) crest (tuft growing on an animal's head)


cocon

→ Danish: kokon

→ Dutch: cocon
→ Indonesian: kokon

From Occitan coucoun (“cocoon”), derived from coco (“shell”).


frayer

frayer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
frayant (gerund participle present)
frayant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
frayé (participle past)
frayé (participle past)
fraye (first-person indicative present singular)
fraie (first-person indicative present singular)
frayes (indicative present second-person singular)
fraies (indicative present second-person singular)
fraye (indicative present singular third-person)
fraie (indicative present singular third-person)
frayons (first-person indicative plural present)
frayons (first-person indicative plural present)
frayez (indicative plural present second-person)
frayez (indicative plural present second-person)
frayent (indicative plural present third-person)
fraient (indicative plural present third-person)
frayais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
frayais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
frayais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
frayais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
frayait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
frayait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
frayions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
frayiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
frayaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
frayaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
frayai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
frayai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
frayas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
frayas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
fraya (historic indicative past singular third-person)
fraya (historic indicative past singular third-person)
frayâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
frayâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
frayâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
frayâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
frayèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
frayèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
frayerai (first-person future indicative singular)
fraierai (first-person future indicative singular)
/fʁɛj.ʁe/ (first-person future indicative singular)
/fʁɛ.ʁe/ (first-person future indicative singular)
/fʁe.ʁe/ (first-person future indicative singular)
frayeras (future indicative second-person singular)
fraieras (future indicative second-person singular)
/fʁɛj.ʁa/ (future indicative second-person singular)
/fʁɛ.ʁa/ (future indicative second-person singular)
/fʁe.ʁa/ (future indicative second-person singular)
frayera (future indicative singular third-person)
fraiera (future indicative singular third-person)
/fʁɛj.ʁa/ (future indicative singular third-person)
/fʁɛ.ʁa/ (future indicative singular third-person)
/fʁe.ʁa/ (future indicative singular third-person)
frayerons (first-person future indicative plural)
fraierons (first-person future indicative plural)
/fʁɛj.ʁɔ̃/ (first-person future indicative plural)
/fʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ (first-person future indicative plural)
/fʁe.ʁɔ̃/ (first-person future indicative plural)
frayerez (future indicative plural second-person)
fraierez (future indicative plural second-person)
/fʁɛj.ʁe/ (future indicative plural second-person)
/fʁɛ.ʁe/ (future indicative plural second-person)
/fʁe.ʁe/ (future indicative plural second-person)
frayeront (future indicative plural third-person)
fraieront (future indicative plural third-person)
/fʁɛj.ʁɔ̃/ (future indicative plural third-person)
/fʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ (future indicative plural third-person)
/fʁe.ʁɔ̃/ (future indicative plural third-person)
frayerais (conditional first-person singular)
fraierais (conditional first-person singular)
/fʁɛj.ʁɛ/ (conditional first-person singular)
/fʁɛ.ʁɛ/ (conditional first-person singular)
/fʁe.ʁɛ/ (conditional first-person singular)
frayerais (conditional second-person singular)
fraierais (conditional second-person singular)
/fʁɛj.ʁɛ/ (conditional second-person singular)
/fʁɛ.ʁɛ/ (conditional second-person singular)
/fʁe.ʁɛ/ (conditional second-person singular)
frayerait (conditional singular third-person)
fraierait (conditional singular third-person)
/fʁɛj.ʁɛ/ (conditional singular third-person)
/fʁɛ.ʁɛ/ (conditional singular third-person)
/fʁe.ʁɛ/ (conditional singular third-person)
frayerions (conditional first-person plural)
fraierions (conditional first-person plural)
/fʁɛ.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ (conditional first-person plural)
frayeriez (conditional plural second-person)
fraieriez (conditional plural second-person)
/fʁɛ.jə.ʁje/ (conditional plural second-person)
frayeraient (conditional plural third-person)
fraieraient (conditional plural third-person)
/fʁɛj.ʁɛ/ (conditional plural third-person)
/fʁɛ.ʁɛ/ (conditional plural third-person)
/fʁe.ʁɛ/ (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
fraye (first-person present singular subjunctive)
fraie (first-person present singular subjunctive)
frayes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
fraies (present second-person singular subjunctive)
fraye (present singular subjunctive third-person)
fraie (present singular subjunctive third-person)
frayions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
frayiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
frayent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
fraient (plural present subjunctive third-person)
frayasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
frayasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
frayasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
frayasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
frayât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
frayât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
frayassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
frayassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
frayassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
frayassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
frayassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
frayassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
fraye (imperative second-person singular)
fraie (imperative second-person singular)
frayons (first-person imperative plural)
frayons (first-person imperative plural)
frayez (imperative plural second-person)
frayez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Old French freier, from Latin fricāre.

(zoology, intransitive) to spawn, to fertilize an egg


abeille ouvrière

fr-noun

abeille ouvrière f (plural abeilles ouvrières)


acarien

acariens (plural)
acarin (alternative archaic)

From acare + -ien, from New Latin acarus. Compare English acarus, Spanish and Portuguese ácaro.


abléphare

(zoology) a skink of the genus Ablepharus


barbeau

Inherited from Old French barbel (“barbel fish”), from Vulgar Latin *barbellus, from Late Latin barbulus, diminutive of Latin barbus (“a type of fish”).

inh+

(ichthyology) barbel (fish)
(cant) pimp, procurer


cuirasse

From Old French cuirace, probably borrowed from Old Occitan coirassa, or Italian corazza, or Old Aragonese cuyraça, from Late Latin coriacea (vestis) (“leather (garment)”), from coriaceus, ultimately from Latin corium, and probably influenced by cuir in French. Doublet of coriace.

uder

(zoology) armour (protective plates covering some lizards and fish)


épucer

épucer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
épuçant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
épucé (participle past)
épuce (first-person indicative present singular)
épuces (indicative present second-person singular)
épuce (indicative present singular third-person)
épuçons (first-person indicative plural present)
épucez (indicative plural present second-person)
épucent (indicative plural present third-person)
épuçais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
épuçais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
épuçait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
épucions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
épuciez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
épuçaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
épuçai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
épuças (historic indicative past second-person singular)
épuça (historic indicative past singular third-person)
épuçâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
épuçâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
épucèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
épucerai (first-person future indicative singular)
épuceras (future indicative second-person singular)
épucera (future indicative singular third-person)
épucerons (first-person future indicative plural)
épucerez (future indicative plural second-person)
épuceront (future indicative plural third-person)
épucerais (conditional first-person singular)
épucerais (conditional second-person singular)
épucerait (conditional singular third-person)
épucerions (conditional first-person plural)
épuceriez (conditional plural second-person)
épuceraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
épuce (first-person present singular subjunctive)
épuces (present second-person singular subjunctive)
épuce (present singular subjunctive third-person)
épucions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
épuciez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
épucent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
épuçasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
épuçasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
épuçât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
épuçassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
épuçassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
épuçassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
épuce (imperative second-person singular)
épuçons (first-person imperative plural)
épucez (imperative plural second-person)

From é- + puce + -er. Compare Spanish espulgar.

(veterinary medicine) to deflea (remove fleas from an animal)


quadrumane

Borrowed from Late Latin quadrumanus, from quattuor (whence French quatre) and manus (whence French main).


baliste

From Latin ballista, from Ancient Greek βαλλίστρα (ballístra), from βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”).


zée

(zoology) John Dory (edible marine fish)


morveux

fr-adj

morveux (feminine morveuse, masculine plural morveux, feminine plural morveuses)

morveuse (feminine)
morveux (masculine plural)
morveuses (feminine plural)


loche

Inherited from Middle French loche, from Old French loche, further origin unknown. Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *laukka (“loach”), which could be from Gaulish *leuka (“loach, slug”), also attested as the feminine name Leuca, from leux (“bright, light”), a reference to slugs' bright appearance, the fish later being associated due to similarities to the slug. Alternatively, perhaps from Frankish *loppijā, *lobbijā (“something lumpy, slow, or clumsy”), from Proto-Germanic *lubbǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“to cut off, peel, hang loosely”). Compare Middle English lob (“pollack”), Middle Low German lobbe, lubbe (“stockfish; thick, droopy lip”), Middle Dutch lobbe (“thick mass, lobe, lump”), German Low German Lobb (“thick, mushy liquid”), English looby.

cog

(zoology) one of the several species of giant slugs belonging to the families Arionidae and Limacidae

(zoology) one of the several species of loach belonging to a number of different orders


vairon

Probably from a popular Latin variant of Latin varius.


blanchaille

(zoology) whitebait (young of various species of fish)


oiseau de nuit

fr-noun

oiseau de nuit m (plural oiseaux de nuit)


râble

From Old French raable, reable, from Latin rutābulum.


barquette

Inherited from Middle French barquette, first attested c. 1320 (discounting an adjective in nef barquette, 1238). By surface analysis, barque + -ette.

Serranus scriba
Serranus scriba#Translingual

(zoology) painted comber, Serranus scriba


paramécie

→ Persian: پارامسی (pârâmesi)


balane

Borrowed from Latin balanus, from Ancient Greek βάλανος (bálanos, “acorn”). Cognate with Catalan bàlan, Italian balano, Portuguese bálano, Spanish bálano.

der

(zoology) barnacle, especially the acorn barnacle


charbonnier

fr-noun

charbonnier m (plural charbonniers, feminine charbonnière)

charbonniers (plural)
charbonnière (feminine)

→ English: charbonnier

Inherited from Latin carbōnārius, from carbō. By surface analysis, charbon + -ier.


térébrant

fr-adj

térébrant (feminine térébrante, masculine plural térébrants, feminine plural térébrantes)

térébrante (feminine)
térébrants (masculine plural)
térébrantes (feminine plural)

Originally present participle of térébrer.

un insecte térébrant

(zoology) terebrant, piercing, boring, perforating


mutique

Les autres pattes sont mutiques, sauf le métatarse de la 2e paire qui a une petite épine submédiane.

1903, Eugène Simon, Histoire naturelle des araignées, page 865:

The other legs are spineless, except for the metatarsal of the second pair which have a small submedian spine.

(zoology, of arthropods) Without spines or teeth


grégariapte

(zoology, esp. of grasshoppers) tending to become gregarious


aglyphe

From a- + Ancient Greek γλυφή (gluphḗ, “carving, incision”).

der

(herpetology) (of teeth) lacking a channel for delivering poison


alucite

(zoology) fungus moth (of family Tineidae)


crocodile marin

fr-noun

crocodile marin m (plural crocodiles marins)


polyclade

(zoology, botany) polycladose, polycladous


Pachyptile

(zoology) pachyptiles, of genus Pachyptila


ptiline

Latin: ptilīnum

English: ptilinum


tragule

(zoology) tragule (a chevrotain of the genus Tragulus)


gélasime

(zoology) fiddler crab (of the genus Uca, formerly Gelasimus)


limacien

fr-adj

limacien (feminine limacienne, masculine plural limaciens, feminine plural limaciennes)

limacienne (feminine)
limaciens (masculine plural)
limaciennes (feminine plural)


nictitant

nictitant (feminine nictitante, masculine plural nictitants, feminine plural nictitantes)

nictitante (feminine)
nictitants (masculine plural)
nictitantes (feminine plural)


notocordal

notocordal (feminine notocordale, masculine plural notocordaux, feminine plural notocordales)

notocordale (feminine)
notocordaux (masculine plural)
notocordales (feminine plural)


prébuccal

prébuccal (feminine prébuccale, masculine plural prébuccaux, feminine plural prébuccales)

prébuccale (feminine)
prébuccaux (masculine plural)
prébuccales (feminine plural)


précaudal

précaudal (feminine précaudale, masculine plural précaudaux, feminine plural précaudales)

précaudale (feminine)
précaudaux (masculine plural)
précaudales (feminine plural)


acœlomate

acœlomates (plural)
acélomate (alternative)


acanthure

From Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́κᾰνθᾰ (ắkănthă, “spine”) + οὐρᾱ́ (ourā́, “tail”).

af

(zoology) a fish of the genus Acanthurus, from the Acanthuridae family


mantelé

fr-adj

mantelé (feminine mantelée, masculine plural mantelés, feminine plural mantelées)

mantelée (feminine)
mantelés (masculine plural)
mantelées (feminine plural)

(zoology) having a different coloured back to that of the rest of its body, in particular with birds


gaspareau

gaspareaux (plural)
gasparot (alternative)
gaspereau (alternative Canada)


à sang chaud

un animal à sang chaud

(zoology, dated, of an animal) warm-blooded, endothermic, homeothermic


à sang froid

un animal à sang froid

(zoology, dated, of an animal) cold-blooded, ectothermic, poikilothermic


anguille d'Europe

fr-noun

anguille d'Europe f (plural anguilles d'Europe)

Coordinate term: anguille d'Amérique

Anguilla anguilla
Anguilla anguilla#Translingual

(zoology) European eel (Anguilla anguilla)


anguille commune

anguille commune f (plural anguilles communes)


mâle alpha

(zoology) alpha male (dominant male in a group of animals)


acanthoptérygien

acanthoptérygien m (plural acanthoptérygiens)


pulmoné

fr-adj

pulmoné (feminine pulmonée, masculine plural pulmonés, feminine plural pulmonées)

pulmonée (feminine)
pulmonés (masculine plural)
pulmonées (feminine plural)

From poumon (“lung”), from Latin pulmōnem, pulmō (“lung”).

Un gastéropode pulmoné.

Un poisson pulmoné.


boëtte

Borrowed from Breton boued, from Middle Breton boet, from Old Breton boit-ol-ion, from Proto-Brythonic *buɨd, from Proto-Celtic *beitom, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃tom, from *gʷeyh₃-.

(ichthyology, zoology) group of very young fish


poisson archer

fr-noun

poisson archer m (plural poissons archers)

Partial calque of translingual Toxotes or poisson + archer.


archer cracheur

archer cracheur m (plural archers cracheurs)

(zoology) Synonym of poisson archer (“archerfish”)


avoir le cuir dur

LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-avoir le cuir dur.wav

La jeunesse Gauloise s’exerçoit à la chasse de cet animal. Il a le cuir dur. On fait de sa corne ainsi que de celle du bœuf divers ouvrages.

1770, Encyclopédie œconomique, page 535:

(zoology) to be pachydermic or pachydermatous


lacinié

fr-adj

lacinié (feminine laciniée, masculine plural laciniés, feminine plural laciniées)

laciniée (feminine)
laciniés (masculine plural)
laciniées (feminine plural)


cormaillot

European sting winkle
European sting winkle