reporter

reporter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
reportant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
reporté (participle past)
reporte (first-person indicative present singular)
reportes (indicative present second-person singular)
reporte (indicative present singular third-person)
reportons (first-person indicative plural present)
reportez (indicative plural present second-person)
reportent (indicative plural present third-person)
reportais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
reportais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
reportait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
reportions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
reportiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
reportaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
reportai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
reportas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
reporta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
reportâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
reportâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
reportèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
reporterai (first-person future indicative singular)
reporteras (future indicative second-person singular)
reportera (future indicative singular third-person)
reporterons (first-person future indicative plural)
reporterez (future indicative plural second-person)
reporteront (future indicative plural third-person)
reporterais (conditional first-person singular)
reporterais (conditional second-person singular)
reporterait (conditional singular third-person)
reporterions (conditional first-person plural)
reporteriez (conditional plural second-person)
reporteraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
reporte (first-person present singular subjunctive)
reportes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
reporte (present singular subjunctive third-person)
reportions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
reportiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
reportent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
reportasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
reportasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
reportât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
reportassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
reportassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
reportassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
reporte (imperative second-person singular)
reportons (first-person imperative plural)
reportez (imperative plural second-person)

Cet idiot avait oublié de reporter un 3!

(mathematics and finance) to carry over or forward


allophone

Coordinate term: phonème

(phonetics, phonology) allophone (any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a phoneme)


ACE

(medicine) acronym of antigène carcino-embryonnaire (“carcinoembryonic antigen”): CEA


sinus

Learned borrowing from Latin sinus. Doublet of sein.


tampon

English: tampon

Persian: تامپون (tâmpon)

German: Tampon

Dutch: tampon

Italian: tampone

Japanese: タンポン (tanpon)

Korean: 탐폰 (tampon)

Portuguese: tampão

Russian: тампо́н (tampón)

Spanish: tampón

Nasalized variant of tapon, from Frankish *tappō, from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“plug, tap”), cognate with Dutch tappe, German Zapfen, Old English tæppa, English tap.

Il monta chercher dans sa chambre, au premier étage, un petit tampon d'ouate; puis, comme le sang était sec et collait à la porcelaine, il humecta légèrement le coton avant de frotter.

1932, Jules Romains, Hommes de bonne volonté:

He went up to his room on the first floor to look for a small ball of cotton wool; then, since the blood was dry and stuck to the porcelain, he moistened the cotton slightly before rubbing.


anticoagulant

fr-adj

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)


anticoagulant

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


malware

(computing) malware (software developed to harm a computer system)


sphincter

Borrowed from Late Latin sphinctēr (“the muscle of the anus”), from Ancient Greek σφῐγκτήρ (sphĭnktḗr, “lace, band; contractile muscle”).


phonème

desctree

→ Dutch: foneem, phoneem (dated)
→ Indonesian: fonem

→ German: Phonem

Greek: φώνημα n (fónima, “phoneme”)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma).

lbor

Coordinate term: phone

ce phonème, qui fleurit aussi bien dans l'extrême Orient que dans notre Basse-Normandie, tient le milieu entre notre a grave et lo grave moyen des mots fort! encore! etc.

this sound, as abundant in the Far East as in our own Lower Normandy occupies the ground between our à sound and the middle o of words like fort! and encore!

Tout phonème suppose un réseau d'oppositions avec les autres phonèmes du même système. La thèse saussurienne précise: «Les phonèmes sont avant tout des entités oppositives, relative et négatives.»

Every phoneme assumes a network of contrasts with other phonemes in the same system. In de Saussure's words: "Phonemes are defined above all by opposition, relativity, by what they are not."

(phonetics, phonology) phoneme (indivisible unit of sound in a given language)


épaule

Inherited from Middle French espaule, from Old French espalle, from Vulgar Latin *spatla, from Late Latin spathula (“flat, broad piece”), diminutive of Latin spatha (“straight sword”) (whence French épée (“sword”)). Doublet of spatule, which was a borrowing.


sauver

sauver (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
sauvant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
sauvé (participle past)
sauve (first-person indicative present singular)
sauves (indicative present second-person singular)
sauve (indicative present singular third-person)
sauvons (first-person indicative plural present)
sauvez (indicative plural present second-person)
sauvent (indicative plural present third-person)
sauvais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
sauvais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
sauvait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
sauvions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
sauviez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
sauvaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
sauvai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
sauvas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
sauva (historic indicative past singular third-person)
sauvâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
sauvâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
sauvèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
sauverai (first-person future indicative singular)
sauveras (future indicative second-person singular)
sauvera (future indicative singular third-person)
sauverons (first-person future indicative plural)
sauverez (future indicative plural second-person)
sauveront (future indicative plural third-person)
sauverais (conditional first-person singular)
sauverais (conditional second-person singular)
sauverait (conditional singular third-person)
sauverions (conditional first-person plural)
sauveriez (conditional plural second-person)
sauveraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
sauve (first-person present singular subjunctive)
sauves (present second-person singular subjunctive)
sauve (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sauvions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
sauviez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
sauvent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sauvasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
sauvasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
sauvât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
sauvassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
sauvassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
sauvassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
sauve (imperative second-person singular)
sauvons (first-person imperative plural)
sauvez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Middle French saulver, from Old French sauver, salver, from Gallo-Romance salvar, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”), from Latin salvus.
In the sense specific to North America, a semantic loan from English save.


diastole

→ Dutch: diastole

Borrowed from Ancient Greek διαστολή (diastolḗ, “separation, drawing asunder”).


spinal

fr-adj

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.


griffon

Inherited from Old French grifon (grif + -on), from Latin grȳphus, gryps, from Ancient Greek γρύψ (grúps).

inh+

(mythology) griffin (legendary creature)


triton

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


MSF

(medicine) Initialism of Médecins Sans Frontières. (Doctors Without Borders)


incision

First known attestation 1314 in the French translation of Chirurgie by Henri de Mondeville. Learned borrowing from Latin incisiōnem.


froid

Mauritian Creole: frwa

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.


thalamus

→ Persian: تالاموس (tâlâmus)

Borrowed from New Latin, from Latin thalamus, from Ancient Greek θάλαμος (thálamos).


trojan

(computing, Anglicism) trojan, Trojan horse (computing)


lumbago

Firmin souffrait d'un lumbago; il ne pouvait plus «mouveter», le pauvre !

Firmin had lumbago; he could no longer move a muscle, poor man!

(pathology) lumbago (pain in the lower back)


sommer

sommer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
sommant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
sommé (participle past)
somme (first-person indicative present singular)
sommes (indicative present second-person singular)
somme (indicative present singular third-person)
sommons (first-person indicative plural present)
sommez (indicative plural present second-person)
somment (indicative plural present third-person)
sommais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
sommais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
sommait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
sommions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
sommiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
sommaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
sommai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
sommas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
somma (historic indicative past singular third-person)
sommâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
sommâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
sommèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
sommerai (first-person future indicative singular)
sommeras (future indicative second-person singular)
sommera (future indicative singular third-person)
sommerons (first-person future indicative plural)
sommerez (future indicative plural second-person)
sommeront (future indicative plural third-person)
sommerais (conditional first-person singular)
sommerais (conditional second-person singular)
sommerait (conditional singular third-person)
sommerions (conditional first-person plural)
sommeriez (conditional plural second-person)
sommeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
somme (first-person present singular subjunctive)
sommes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
somme (present singular subjunctive third-person)
sommions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
sommiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
somment (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sommasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
sommasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
sommât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
sommassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
sommassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
sommassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
somme (imperative second-person singular)
sommons (first-person imperative plural)
sommez (imperative plural second-person)


chaîne

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Inherited from Middle French chaisne, from Old French chaene, chaiene, caiene, inherited from Latin catēna. Doublet of cadène and catène. The long vowel derives from the Old French hiatus; by analogy the length was expressed with a silent -s- in Middle French, which was then replaced with the circumflex.


streamer

(computing) streamer (data storage system)


postprandial

fr-adj

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

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


aileron

→ Dutch: aileron

→ English: aileron

→ Portuguese: ailerão

→ Spanish: alerón

(anatomy) flipper (of penguins and other animals)


grandeur

From Old French grandur, from grand + -eur.

(physics, mathematics) magnitude, quantity


passé simple

Je comprends que je manque de maîtrise / Mais heureusement, j'assume mes bêtises / Votre passé simple n'est pas si simple

2023, “French Kiss”, performed by Chilly Gonzales:

I understand that I lack control / But fortunately, I take responsibility for my mistakes / Your simple past is not so simple

(grammar) past historic tense, a tense used in some languages (such as French and Italian) in narrative, roughly equivalent to the simple past or preterite in English


entrée

→ Danish: entré

→ English: entrée

→ Greek: αντρέ (antré)

→ Swedish: entré

→ Turkish: antre

(lexicography) headword, entry (in a dictionary, encyclopedia)


prescription

Inherited from Old French prescripcion, itself borrowed from Latin praescrīptiō.

(medicine) prescription (written order from an authorized medical practitioner for provision of a medicine or other treatment, such as (ophthalmology) the specific lenses needed for a pair of glasses)

Coordinate term: description

(linguistics) prescription (act of establishing or formalizing ideal norms for language use, as opposed to describing the actual norms of such use)


reste

Inherited from Middle French reste, from Old French reste, equivalent to the stem of rester.


droit

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.

Un angle de trois droits.


droit

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

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


ensemble

→ Danish: ensemble

→ Dutch: ensemble

→ English: ensemble

→ German: Ensemble

→ Norwegian: ensemble

→ Portuguese: ensemble

→ Serbo-Croatian: ansambl

→ Spanish: ensemble

→ Swedish: ensemble

From Old French ensemble, from Latin īnsimul, a variant of simul See also Italian insieme, Catalan ensems.

la théorie des ensembles

l'ensemble vide


partie

desctree

Polish: partia, partyja (Middle Polish), partya (pre-reform orthography (1816)), partja (pre-reform orthography (1936))
→ Kashubian: partiô


spammer

(computing, Internet) someone who sends spam, a spammer


spammer

spammer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
spammant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
spammé (participle past)
spamme (first-person indicative present singular)
spammes (indicative present second-person singular)
spamme (indicative present singular third-person)
spammons (first-person indicative plural present)
spammez (indicative plural present second-person)
spamment (indicative plural present third-person)
spammais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
spammais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
spammait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
spammions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
spammiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
spammaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
spammai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
spammas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
spamma (historic indicative past singular third-person)
spammâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
spammâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
spammèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
spammerai (first-person future indicative singular)
spammeras (future indicative second-person singular)
spammera (future indicative singular third-person)
spammerons (first-person future indicative plural)
spammerez (future indicative plural second-person)
spammeront (future indicative plural third-person)
spammerais (conditional first-person singular)
spammerais (conditional second-person singular)
spammerait (conditional singular third-person)
spammerions (conditional first-person plural)
spammeriez (conditional plural second-person)
spammeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
spamme (first-person present singular subjunctive)
spammes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
spamme (present singular subjunctive third-person)
spammions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
spammiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
spamment (plural present subjunctive third-person)
spammasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
spammasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
spammât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
spammassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
spammassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
spammassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
spamme (imperative second-person singular)
spammons (first-person imperative plural)
spammez (imperative plural second-person)


quadrangle

Inherited from Old French quadrangle, from Late Latin quadrangulum.


caudal

fr-adj

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.


vermifuge

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


petit mal

→ Danish: petit mal

→ English: petit mal

Coordinate term: grand mal


cavitation

(sciences) the formation of gas bubbles in a fluid in a vacuum


lumière

Inherited from Middle French lumiere f, from Old French lumiere f, from Late Latin lūmināria f (“light”), neuter plural of lūmināre n (“star”) become feminine, ultimately from Latin lūmen n. Doublet of luminaire m.
Compare Occitan lumenaria f and Italian luminaria f.


sujet

→ Macedonian: сиже́ (sižé)

desctree

→ Russian: сюже́т (sjužét)
→ Kazakh: сюжет (süjet)

→ Serbo-Croatian: sìžē, сѝже̄

→ Slovak: sujet

→ Persian: سوژه (suže)

→ Turkish: süje


parfait

→ Finnish: parfait, parfee

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


-ide

Inherited from Middle French -ide, from Latin -idēs, from Ancient Greek -ίδης (-ídēs).

Persée (“Perseus”) + -ide → Perséide (“Perseid”)

Salomon (“Solomon”) + -ide → Salomonide (“Solomonid”)

Omeyya (“Umayya”) + -(i)de → Omeyyade (“Umayyad”)

Genghis (“Genghis”) + -ide → Genghiside (“Ghengisid”)

Osman (“Osman”) + -ide → Osmanide (“Osmanid”)


-ide

Inherited from Middle French -ide, from Latin -is (genitive: -idis), from Ancient Greek -ῐς f (-ĭs) (genitive: -ῐδος (-ĭdos); plural: -ῐδες (-ĭdes)).

Titan (“Titan”) + -ide → Titanide (“Titanid”)

Nérée (“Nereus”) + -ide → Néréide (“Nereid”)

(mythology) -id (feminine equivalent or descendant)


nosocomial

fr-adj

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)


peser

peser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
pesant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
pesé (participle past)
pèse (first-person indicative present singular)
pèses (indicative present second-person singular)
pèse (indicative present singular third-person)
pesons (first-person indicative plural present)
pesez (indicative plural present second-person)
pèsent (indicative plural present third-person)
pesais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
pesais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
pesait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
pesions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
pesiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
pesaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
pesai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
pesas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
pesa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
pesâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
pesâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
pesèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
pèserai (first-person future indicative singular)
pèseras (future indicative second-person singular)
pèsera (future indicative singular third-person)
pèserons (first-person future indicative plural)
pèserez (future indicative plural second-person)
pèseront (future indicative plural third-person)
pèserais (conditional first-person singular)
pèserais (conditional second-person singular)
pèserait (conditional singular third-person)
pèserions (conditional first-person plural)
pèserions (conditional first-person plural)
pèseriez (conditional plural second-person)
pèseriez (conditional plural second-person)
pèseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
pèse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
pèses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
pèse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
pesions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
pesiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
pèsent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
pesasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
pesasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
pesât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
pesassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
pesassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
pesassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
pèse (imperative second-person singular)
pesons (first-person imperative plural)
pesez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Middle French peser, from Old French peser, from Classical Latin pēnsāre, whence also the doublet penser 'think'.

(intransitive) to weigh (to have a weight of)

(computing, intransitive) of a file, to have a given size

to weigh (to have a weight of)
of a file, to have a given size


imago

(psychology) imago (idealized image of a loved one)


foie

Inherited from Old French foie, feie, from Late Latin fīcātum (“liver (as food)”), from Latin iecur fīcātum (“fig-stuffed liver, foie gras”). The French form goes back to a byform ficatum with a short accented -i- (whence Italian fegato), which was then metathesised to *fitacum. The last also underlies in Catalan fetge.


bourse

→ English: bourse

→ Persian: بورس (burs)

→ Romanian: bursă

→ Turkish: burs

Inherited from Old French borse, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide”).

Les testicules [...] sont suspendus au-dessous du bassin dans une espèce de bourse ou de scrotum [...]

1805, Georges Cuvier, Les organes de la génération:

The testicles … are hanging below the pelvis in a sort of purse or scrotum …

(anatomy)
(generally in the plural) the scrotum

Ça remonte à quand, la dernière fois que tu t'es vidé les bourses ?

When was the last time you emptied your balls?


ganache

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


incontinent

fr-adj

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


diable

diables (plural)
yiable (alternative Canada)

Haitian Creole: dyab

→ English: diable, diablo

Chinook Jargon: le diaub

Inherited from Middle French diable, from Old French diable, deable, a semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin or Late Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).


âme

Inherited from Middle French ame, amme, from Old French ame, anme, anima, from Latin anima.


entier

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


boulet

From Middle French boulet, corresponding to boule + -et.


fourchette

→ Bambara: furusɛti

→ English: fourchette

→ Luxembourgish: Forschett

→ Moroccan Arabic: فرشيطة (furšīṭa)

Les taux d'équipement par ménage dans la Communauté stagnent, dans une fourchette allant de 96 % en Espagne à 77 % en Suède.

Equipment to household ratios in the Community are becoming stagnant, within a range from 96 % in Spain to 77 % in Sweden.


crase

From Ancient Greek κρᾶσις (krâsis, “mixture”).

der

La crase est très employée dans la conversation courante populaire.

Crasis is very often employed in modern colloquial conversation.

τοὐμόν, κἀγώ, κᾆτα sont les crases de τὸ ἐμόν, καὶ ἐγώ, καὶ εἶτα

τοὐμόν, κἀγώ, κᾆτα are the crasic forms of τὸ ἐμόν, καὶ ἐγώ, καὶ εἶτα

(linguistics) crasis (contraction of a vowel at the end of a word with the start of the next word), (especially) in Ancient Greek


macule

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

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


vagal

fr-adj

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

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


engouement

From engouer (“to become passionate about”) + -ment.


granulocyte

(cytology, immunology) granulocyte (blood cell)


thrombocyte

(hematology, cytology) platelet, thrombocyte


-ite

Borrowed from Latin -ītēs, from Ancient Greek -ίτης (-ítēs).

alvéole (“alveolus”) + -ite → alvéolite (“alveolitis”)


menhir

→ Aragonese: menhir

→ Armenian: մենհիր (menhir)

→ Asturian: menhir

→ Basque: menhir

→ Belarusian: менгір (mjenhir)

→ Dutch: menhir

→ Afrikaans: menhir

→ Bulgarian: менхир (menhir)

→ Catalan: menhir

→ Czech: menhir

→ English: menhir

→ Esperanto: menhiro

→ Estonian: menhir

→ Finnish: menhir

→ Galician: menhir

→ Georgian: მენჰირი (menhiri)

→ German: Menhir

→ Greek: μενίρ (menír)

→ Hebrew: מנהיר

→ Hungarian: menhír

→ Ido: menhiro

→ Indonesian: menhir

→ Italian: menhir

→ Japanese: メンヒル (menhiru)

→ Kazakh: менгир (meñir)

→ Lithuanian: menhyras

→ Macedonian: менхир (menhir)

→ Malay: menhir

→ Malayalam: മെൻഹിർ (meṉhiṟ)

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: menhir

→ Occitan: menir

→ Polish: menhir

→ Portuguese: menir

→ Romanian: menhir

→ Russian: менги́р (mengír)

→ Serbo-Croatian: mènhīr

→ Slovak: menhir

→ Slovene: menhir

→ Spanish: menhir

→ Tatar: менгир (mengir)

→ Turkish: menhir

→ Ukrainian: менгі́р (menhír)

→ Uzbek: mengir

→ Walloon: menir

→ West Frisian: menhir

Borrowed from Breton maen-hir, from maen (“stone”) + hir (“tall”). Compare Cornish mênhere, and Welsh maen hir.


injection

→ Romanian: injecție

→ Turkish: enjeksiyon

(mathematics, logic, set theory) injection


propre

Inherited from Old French propre, borrowed from Latin proprius.

valeur propre


capitation

Learned borrowing from Latin capitātiōnem.


implant

Turkish: implant


coronal

fr-adj

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


Osiris

(Egyptian mythology) Osiris (the Egyptian god of the dead and of the underworld)


Tylenol

(North America, pharmacology) Tylenol; a marketed variety of acetaminophen (“paracetamol”)


tympan

Borrowed from Latin tympanum. Doublet of timbre, which was inherited.


locution

Borrowed from Latin locūtiōnem (“speech”), from loqui (“speak”).

bor+

w:Trésor de la langue française informatisé

(linguistics) locution (a group of words with the grammatical value of a single word)


syncope

Borrowed from Ancient Greek συγκοπή (sunkopḗ).


paume

Inherited from Middle French paulme, from Old French paume, paulme, from Latin palma, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂meh₂. Compare palme (“palm tree”), a borrowed doublet.


bec

→ Portuguese: beque

Inherited from Old French bec, from Latin beccus (“beak”), from Gaulish *beccos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos.


racine

Inherited from Old French *raicine, from Late Latin rādīcīna (“root”), from Latin rādīx, rādīcis (“root”), from Proto-Italic *wrādīks, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.

jardin des racines grecques

les racines latines en français

racine carrée

racine cubique

racine quatrième

racine énième


bloc

→ Asturian: bloque

→ Bulgarian: блок (blok)

→ Czech: bloc

→ English: bloc

→ Galician: bloque

→ Irish: bloc

→ Italian: bloc

→ Macedonian: блок (blok)

→ Norwegian: block

→ Persian: بلوک (blok)

→ Polish: blok

→ Portuguese: bloco

→ Romanian: bloc

desctree

→ Russian: блок (blok)
→ Armenian: բլոկ (blok)
→ Yakut: блок (blok)

→ Spanish: bloc, bloque

→ Turkish: blok

→ Welsh: bloc

Inherited from Middle French bloc (“a considerable piece of something heavy, block”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”).


Bluetooth

Unadapted borrowing from English Bluetooth, a calque from Old Norse Blátǫnn.


loader

loader (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
loadant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
loadé (participle past)
loade (first-person indicative present singular)
loades (indicative present second-person singular)
loade (indicative present singular third-person)
loadons (first-person indicative plural present)
loadez (indicative plural present second-person)
loadent (indicative plural present third-person)
loadais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
loadais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
loadait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
loadions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
loadiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
loadaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
loadai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
loadas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
loada (historic indicative past singular third-person)
loadâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
loadâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
loadèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
loaderai (first-person future indicative singular)
loaderas (future indicative second-person singular)
loadera (future indicative singular third-person)
loaderons (first-person future indicative plural)
loaderez (future indicative plural second-person)
loaderont (future indicative plural third-person)
loaderais (conditional first-person singular)
loaderais (conditional second-person singular)
loaderait (conditional singular third-person)
loaderions (conditional first-person plural)
loaderiez (conditional plural second-person)
loaderaient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
loade (first-person present singular subjunctive)
loades (present second-person singular subjunctive)
loade (present singular subjunctive third-person)
loadions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
loadiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
loadent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
loadasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
loadasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
loadât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
loadassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
loadassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
loadassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
loade (imperative second-person singular)
loadons (first-person imperative plural)
loadez (imperative plural second-person)


ordinateur

Borrowed from Latin ōrdinātōrem (“one who orders”), from ōrdinō (“to order, organize”).
In its application to computing, it was coined by the professor of philology Jacques Perret in a letter dated 16 April 1955, in response to a request from IBM France, who believed the word calculateur was too restrictive in light of the possibilities of these machines.

bor+

Il a un ordinateur.

Elle est à l’ordinateur.

(computing) a computer, a computing device.


jailbreak

(computing) jailbreak (a modification to the firmware of an electronic device (typically a mobile phone or tablet) to allow the installation and use of software not officially supported by the device's manufacturer).


traceur

fr-noun

traceur m (plural traceurs, feminine traceuse)

→ English: traceur

(computing, Internet) cookie used to store data about a website visitor


Annam

English: Annam

Vietnamese: An Nam

Borrowed from Vietnamese An Nam, from Chinese 安南 (Ānnán).

(history) Annam (a former colonial province of China, now part of Vietnam's present-day Tonkin)

(history) Annam (a former French colony, one of the French protectorates in Vietnam, located in Central Vietnam)


traduction

traduction f (countable and uncountable, plural traductions)

Learned borrowing from Latin trāductiō (“transferring, translation”, literally “leading across”), from trādūcō (“to lead across”), from trāns (“across”) + dūcō (“to lead”).

lbor

Coordinate term: interprétation

traduction à vue

traduction automatique

traduction assistée par ordinateur

(translation studies, uncountable) translation (the discipline or study of translating written language)


poitrine

Inherited from Old French poitrine, peitrine, from Vulgar Latin *pectorīna, derived from Latin pectus. Gradually replaced pis, now meaning udder. Cognate with Spanish pretina (“waistband”).

inh+

bomber la poitrine

Il a la poitrine velue.


squelette

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: اسكلت (iskelet)
Turkish: iskelet

→ Persian: اسکلت (eskelet)

→ Romanian: schelet

From Middle French scelette, a learned borrowing from Latin sceletus, from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”).


pente

→ Romanian: pantă

From Vulgar Latin *pendita, nominalized feminine of *penditus, Vulgar Latin perfect participle (compare Classical Latin pēnsus) of pendere (“to hang”).


Diane

→ English: Diane
→ Portuguese: Daiane


ascendant

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)”)).


poumon

Inherited from Old French poumon, pulmun, inherited from Latin pulmōnem (“lung”), from Proto-Indo-European *pléwmō.


arête

Inherited from Old French areste, from Latin arista.


stal

(communism, derogatory) A Stalinist, a Marxist-Leninist.

(by extension, communism, derogatory) A communist regardless of their ideology.


stal

(communism, derogatory) Stalinist, Marxist-Leninist.

(by extension, communism, derogatory) Communist.


lecteur

fr-noun

lecteur m (plural lecteurs, feminine lectrice)


calcul

→ German: Kalkül
→ Czech: kalkul

→ Romanian: calcul

→ Swedish: kalkyl

calcul biliaire

calcul rénal

(medicine) calculus, stone (stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ)

calcul différentiel

calcul intégral


aiguille

aiguilles (plural)
aguille (alternative obsolete)

Inherited from Old French aguille, from Late Latin acūcula, diminutive of Latin acus (“needle”). Perhaps influenced phonetically by aiguiser. Compare Occitan agulha.

aiguille à tricoter

de fil en aiguille

chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin

talon aiguille


étrier

→ English: étrier

→ Romanian: etrier

Inherited from Middle French estrier, from Old French estrief, estreu (“a ring hanging on each side of the saddle supporting a rider's foot”), from Frankish *streup (“buckle, stirrup”), perhaps for Frankish *stigareip (“stirrup”). Compare Old High German stegareif (“stirrup”), Middle Dutch stegerep (“stirrup”), Old English stīrāp, stiġrāp (“stirrup”), Old Norse stigreip (“stirrup”). See also étrivière. More at stirrup.


streaming

Unadapted borrowing from English streaming.

ubor

(computing) streaming (the transmission of digital audio or video, or the reception or playback of such data without first storing it)


clé

clés (plural)
clef (alternative uncommon)
cleph (alternative humorous)

→ Vietnamese: cờ-lê

Inherited from Middle French clef, from Old French clef, from Latin clāvis, from Proto-Italic *klāwis, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kleh₂w-. According to Bescherelle, the spelling clé had replaced clef by 1845.


dumping

Unadapted borrowing from English dumping.


muet

fr-adj

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".


arbitrage

→ Dutch: arbitrage

→ English: arbitrage

→ Polish: arbitraż

→ Romanian: arbitraj

desctree

→ Russian: арбитра́ж (arbitráž)
→ Mongolian: арбитраж (arbitraž)

→ Turkish: arbitraj

→ Ukrainian: арбітра́ж (arbitráž)


droite

Feminine form of droit. Compare Catalan dreta, Italian dritta, Portuguese direita, Spanish derecha, Romanian dreapta.


noter

noter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
notant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
noté (participle past)
note (first-person indicative present singular)
notes (indicative present second-person singular)
note (indicative present singular third-person)
notons (first-person indicative plural present)
notez (indicative plural present second-person)
notent (indicative plural present third-person)
notais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
notais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
notait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
notions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
notiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
notaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
notai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
notas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
nota (historic indicative past singular third-person)
notâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
notâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
notèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
noterai (first-person future indicative singular)
noteras (future indicative second-person singular)
notera (future indicative singular third-person)
noterons (first-person future indicative plural)
noterez (future indicative plural second-person)
noteront (future indicative plural third-person)
noterais (conditional first-person singular)
noterais (conditional second-person singular)
noterait (conditional singular third-person)
noterions (conditional first-person plural)
noteriez (conditional plural second-person)
noteraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
note (first-person present singular subjunctive)
notes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
note (present singular subjunctive third-person)
notions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
notiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
notent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
notasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
notasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
notât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
notassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
notassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
notassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
note (imperative second-person singular)
notons (first-person imperative plural)
notez (imperative plural second-person)


constante

Coordinate term: variable

(algebra) constant (quantity that remains at a fixed value throughout a given discussion)


présent

fr-adj

présent (feminine présente, masculine plural présents, feminine plural présentes)

présente (feminine)
présents (masculine plural)
présentes (feminine plural)
præsent (alternative obsolete)


présent

présents (plural)
præsent (alternative obsolete)


matrice

desctree

→ German: Matrize
→ Polish: matryca
→ Russian: ма́трица (mátrica)
→ Kazakh: матрица (matrisa)
→ Ukrainian: ма́триця (mátrycja)

Inherited from Old French matrice, borrowed from Latin mātrīcem. Supplanted the older inherited forms marriz, marris.

(mathematics) matrix (rectangular arrangement of numbers or terms having various uses such as transforming coordinates in geometry, solving systems of linear equations in linear algebra and representing graphs in graph theory)


bouchon

Antillean Creole: bouchon

→ Bulgarian: бушон (bušon)

→ Portuguese: bujão

Inherited from Middle French bouchon (“bundle of hemp or foliage, oakum”), from bousche (“handful of straw, bundle of twigs”), from Vulgar Latin bosca (“brush, bundle of branches”), from Frankish *bosc (“bush”), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush”). More at bush.


tourner

tourner (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
tournant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
tourné (participle past)
tourne (first-person indicative present singular)
tournes (indicative present second-person singular)
tourne (indicative present singular third-person)
tournons (first-person indicative plural present)
tournez (indicative plural present second-person)
tournent (indicative plural present third-person)
tournais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
tournais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
tournait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
tournions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
tourniez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
tournaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
tournai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
tournas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
tourna (historic indicative past singular third-person)
tournâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
tournâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
tournèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
tournerai (first-person future indicative singular)
tourneras (future indicative second-person singular)
tournera (future indicative singular third-person)
tournerons (first-person future indicative plural)
tournerez (future indicative plural second-person)
tourneront (future indicative plural third-person)
tournerais (conditional first-person singular)
tournerais (conditional second-person singular)
tournerait (conditional singular third-person)
tournerions (conditional first-person plural)
tourneriez (conditional plural second-person)
tourneraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
tourne (first-person present singular subjunctive)
tournes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
tourne (present singular subjunctive third-person)
tournions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
tourniez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
tournent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
tournasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
tournasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
tournât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
tournassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
tournassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
tournassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
tourne (imperative second-person singular)
tournons (first-person imperative plural)
tournez (imperative plural second-person)

→ Spanish: turnar

→ Portuguese: turno

⇒ Italian: turno

Inherited from Middle French tourner, from Old French torner, from Latin tornāre (“turn”).

tourner sa langue sept fois dans sa bouche

tourner sept fois sa langue dans sa bouche

Faire tourner un programme sur son ordinateur.

Le stande de glace ne tourne qu'en plein milieu de l'été.

The ice-cream stand only runs in the middle of summer.

(computing, ambitransitive) to run, to operate to execute (a program, a business, an application etc.)


SOV

(linguistics) Initialism of sujet-objet-verbe, equivalent to English SOV (subject-object-verb).


écraser

écraser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
écrasant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
écrasé (participle past)
écrase (first-person indicative present singular)
écrases (indicative present second-person singular)
écrase (indicative present singular third-person)
écrasons (first-person indicative plural present)
écrasez (indicative plural present second-person)
écrasent (indicative plural present third-person)
écrasais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
écrasais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
écrasait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
écrasions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
écrasiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
écrasaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
écrasai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
écrasas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
écrasa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
écrasâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
écrasâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
écrasèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
écraserai (first-person future indicative singular)
écraseras (future indicative second-person singular)
écrasera (future indicative singular third-person)
écraserons (first-person future indicative plural)
écraserez (future indicative plural second-person)
écraseront (future indicative plural third-person)
écraserais (conditional first-person singular)
écraserais (conditional second-person singular)
écraserait (conditional singular third-person)
écraserions (conditional first-person plural)
écraseriez (conditional plural second-person)
écraseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
écrase (first-person present singular subjunctive)
écrases (present second-person singular subjunctive)
écrase (present singular subjunctive third-person)
écrasions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
écrasiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
écrasent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
écrasasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
écrasasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
écrasât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
écrasassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
écrasassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
écrasassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
écrase (imperative second-person singular)
écrasons (first-person imperative plural)
écrasez (imperative plural second-person)

From Middle French ecraser (“to squash”), from Middle English crasen (“to break, shatter”), from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”), ultimately imitative. More at craze.


obnubilation

Inherited from the Middle French obnubilation.

(medicine, obsolete) perception of objects as if seen through a cloud, dazzlement, obnubilation

vertige

(medicine) a disorder of consciousness characterised by slowed and obscured thought, obnubilation


boucle

→ Catalan: bucle m

→ Esperanto: buklo

→ Galician: bucle

→ Greek: μπούκλα (boúkla)

→ Portuguese: bucle

→ Romanian: buclă

→ Russian: бу́кля (búklja)

→ Spanish: bucle m

→ Turkish: bukle

Inherited from Old French boucle, bocle, from Latin buccula (“the cheek strap of a helmet”), diminutive of bucca.


subordination

Borrowed from Late Latin subordinātiōnem. See also subordonner and -ation.


collet

→ Portuguese: colete

Inherited from Middle French collet. By surface analysis, col + -et.


purger

purger (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
purgeant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
purgé (participle past)
purge (first-person indicative present singular)
purges (indicative present second-person singular)
purge (indicative present singular third-person)
purgeons (first-person indicative plural present)
purgez (indicative plural present second-person)
purgent (indicative plural present third-person)
purgeais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
purgeais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
purgeait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
purgions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
purgiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
purgeaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
purgeai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
purgeas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
purgea (historic indicative past singular third-person)
purgeâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
purgeâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
purgèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
purgerai (first-person future indicative singular)
purgeras (future indicative second-person singular)
purgera (future indicative singular third-person)
purgerons (first-person future indicative plural)
purgerez (future indicative plural second-person)
purgeront (future indicative plural third-person)
purgerais (conditional first-person singular)
purgerais (conditional second-person singular)
purgerait (conditional singular third-person)
purgerions (conditional first-person plural)
purgeriez (conditional plural second-person)
purgeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
purge (first-person present singular subjunctive)
purges (present second-person singular subjunctive)
purge (present singular subjunctive third-person)
purgions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
purgiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
purgent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
purgeasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
purgeasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
purgeât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
purgeassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
purgeassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
purgeassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
purge (imperative second-person singular)
purgeons (first-person imperative plural)
purgez (imperative plural second-person)

→ Romanian: purja


aisselle

Inherited from Old French aisele, inherited from Vulgar Latin *axella, Late Latin ascella, from Latin axilla.


gencive

Inherited from Old French [Term?] (compare 11th-century Judeo-French jencives, 12th-century Walloon genchives), from Latin gingīva (with dissimilation of the second -g-), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁-.


cuisse

Haitian Creole: kwis

→ English: cuish, cuisse, quish

Inherited from Old French cuisse, quisse, from Vulgar Latin or Late Latin coxa (“thigh”), from Latin coxa (“hip”). Compare hanche.


crise

→ Romanian: criză

→ Turkish: kriz
→ Laz: კრიზი (ǩrizi)

Borrowed from Latin crisis, from Ancient Greek κρίσις (krísis).


courbe

From Vulgar Latin *curbus, from Latin curvus.


stade

→ Turkish: stat

From Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion), neuter form of στάδιος (stádios, “stable, firm”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to be standing”).

der

un stade avancé d’une maladie


souffle

→ English: souffle

(cardiology, medicine) the sound made by any condition which produces noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart; a murmur


cercle

Haitian Creole: sèk

Inherited from Old French cercle, from Latin circulus.


tibial

fr-adj

tibial (feminine tibiale, masculine plural tibiaux, feminine plural tibiales)

tibiale (feminine)
tibiaux (masculine plural)
tibiales (feminine plural)


serveur

fr-noun

serveur m (plural serveurs, feminine serveuse)

From servir + -eur. Cf. also Old French serveor, Late Latin servitor.


disque

→ English: disc

→ Norman: disque

→ Persian: دیسک (disk)

→ Romanian: disc

→ Turkish: disk

Borrowed from Latin discus. Doublet of dais, which was inherited from Old French deis, dois.

disc (any flat or nearly flat circular object)

disque dur


acidose

(pathology) acidosis (an abnormally increased acidity of the blood)


carpe

Borrowed from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós).


sommet

Inherited from Old French somet, sommette, diminutive derivation of som (“highest part, top of a hill”) from Latin summum.

le sommet d'une parabole

(mathematics) vertex (point on a curve with a local minimum or maximum of curvature)


révolution

→ German: Revolution

→ Persian: رولوسیون (revolusiyon)

→ Turkish: revolüsyon

Learned borrowing from Late Latin revolūtiō, from Latin revolvō.

lbor

solide de révolution

(geometry, astronomy) revolution (turn; rotation)


portée

From feminine past participle of porter (“to carry”).


attaque

→ English: attack

→ German: Attacke

→ Polish: atak

→ Romanian: atac


assemblage

(computing) a phase in compilation where an assembly language is translated into a binary file

(archaeology) assemblage (group of different artifacts found in association with one another)

(bioinformatics) sequence assembly (aligning and merging of DNA fragments to reconstruct a sequence)

(bioinformatics) genome assembly (process of reassembling DNA sequences)


populaire

→ Turkish: popüler

From Middle French populaire, a learned borrowing from Latin populāris.

République populaire démocratique de Corée


logiciel

From logique + -iel, by analogy with and opposition to matériel.

(computing) software (encoded computer instructions)

(computing) computer program, piece of software


erreur

From Old French, borrowed from Latin errōrem.

Near-synonyms: défaillance, dysfonctionnement

Une erreur système s'est produite pendant l'enregistrement des données.

A system error occurred while the data was being saved (lit. during the saving of the data).

(computing) error (a failure, misfunction)


conséquence

la conséquence logique

la conséquence matérielle

la conséquence syntaxique et la conséquence sémantique

syntactic consequence and semantic consequence


sourd

fr-adj

sourd (feminine sourde, masculine plural sourds, feminine plural sourdes)

sourde (feminine)
sourds (masculine plural)
sourdes (feminine plural)

Inherited from Middle French sourd, from Old French sourt, sord, surt, surz, from Latin surdus, from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“ringing, whistling”).

der

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


carie

(dentistry) decay (uncountable), cavity (countable) (process or result of bone or teeth being gradually decomposed)


témoin

fr-noun

témoin m (plural témoins, feminine (rare) témoignesse or (both nonstandard) témouine or témointe)

témoins (plural)
témoignesse (feminine rare)
témouine (feminine nonstandard)
témointe (feminine nonstandard)

Inherited from Middle French tesmoing, from Old French tesmoin, from Latin testimōnium. The same Latin noun was also borrowed into Old French as testimonie, testemoigne (whence English testimony); this has been lost in modern French.

témoin de navigation
témoin de navigation#French

(Internet, software) ellipsis of témoin de navigation


supérieur

fr-adj

supérieur (feminine supérieure, masculine plural supérieurs, feminine plural supérieures)

supérieure (feminine)
supérieurs (masculine plural)
supérieures (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French superior, borrowed from Latin superior.

(mathematics) greater than or equal to. ≥, ⩾.


rentrant

rentrant (feminine rentrante, masculine plural rentrants, feminine plural rentrantes)

rentrante (feminine)
rentrants (masculine plural)
rentrantes (feminine plural)


drapeau

Haitian Creole: drapo

Louisiana Creole: drapo

From Old French drapel. By surface analysis, drap (“cloth”) + -eau (diminutive suffix).


historique

Borrowed from Latin historicus (“historical”).


saisir

saisir (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
saisissant (gerund participle present)
saisissant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
saisi (participle past)
saisi (participle past)
saisis (first-person indicative present singular)
saisis (first-person indicative present singular)
saisis (indicative present second-person singular)
saisis (indicative present second-person singular)
saisit (indicative present singular third-person)
saisit (indicative present singular third-person)
saisissons (first-person indicative plural present)
saisissons (first-person indicative plural present)
saisissez (indicative plural present second-person)
saisissez (indicative plural present second-person)
saisissent (indicative plural present third-person)
saisissent (indicative plural present third-person)
saisissais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
saisissais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
saisissais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
saisissais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
saisissait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
saisissait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
saisissions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
saisissions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
saisissiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
saisissiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
saisissaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
saisissaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
saisis (first-person historic indicative past singular)
saisis (first-person historic indicative past singular)
saisis (historic indicative past second-person singular)
saisis (historic indicative past second-person singular)
saisit (historic indicative past singular third-person)
saisit (historic indicative past singular third-person)
saisîmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
saisîmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
saisîtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
saisîtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
saisirent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
saisirent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
saisirai (first-person future indicative singular)
saisirai (first-person future indicative singular)
saisiras (future indicative second-person singular)
saisiras (future indicative second-person singular)
saisira (future indicative singular third-person)
saisira (future indicative singular third-person)
saisirons (first-person future indicative plural)
saisirons (first-person future indicative plural)
saisirez (future indicative plural second-person)
saisirez (future indicative plural second-person)
saisiront (future indicative plural third-person)
saisiront (future indicative plural third-person)
saisirais (conditional first-person singular)
saisirais (conditional first-person singular)
saisirais (conditional second-person singular)
saisirais (conditional second-person singular)
saisirait (conditional singular third-person)
saisirait (conditional singular third-person)
saisirions (conditional first-person plural)
saisirions (conditional first-person plural)
saisiriez (conditional plural second-person)
saisiriez (conditional plural second-person)
saisiraient (conditional plural third-person)
saisiraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
saisisse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
saisisse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
saisisses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
saisisses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
saisisse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
saisisse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
saisissions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
saisissions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
saisissiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
saisissiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
saisissent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
saisissent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
saisisse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
saisisse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
saisisses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
saisisses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
saisît (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
saisît (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
saisissions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
saisissions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
saisissiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
saisissiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
saisissent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
saisissent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
saisis (imperative second-person singular)
saisis (imperative second-person singular)
saisissons (first-person imperative plural)
saisissons (first-person imperative plural)
saisissez (imperative plural second-person)
saisissez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Middle French saisir, from Old French saisir, seisir (whence English seize), from Early Medieval Latin sacīre (“lay claim to, take seisin”), from Frankish *sakjan (“to sue, litigate; accuse”). Compare Old English sacian (“to strive, brawl”), Faroese saka (“to hurt; accuse”), obsolete English sake (“strife”).
Alternatively Old French saisir, seisir may be borrowed from Old High German *sazjan and thus cognate to German setzen (“to set”) and Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (satjan).

der

(computing) to type (something) into a computer; to input


hippocampe

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


Ys

1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques (1993 edition), Plon, chapter IX, page 89; translated 1973 by John and Doreen Weightman as Tristes Tropiques (2011 edition), Penguin Books

The bay at Rio eats right into the heart of the city: you land in the centre, as if the other half, like the fabled town of Ys, had already been engulfed by waves.

Rio est mordu par sa baie jusqu'au cœur; on débarque en plein centre, comme si l'autre moitié, nouvelle Ys, avait été déjà dévorée par les flots.

(mythology) Ys (a mythical sunken city in Brittany, France)


phimosis

From Ancient Greek φίμωσις (phímōsis, “muzzling”).


Vénus

→ Persian: ونوس (venus)

Comme l’ardant brandon Vénus

Guillaume de Lorris, Le Roman de la Rose 33.1

Like a burning torch Venus
helped the Lover more than anything


cote

Inherited from Middle French quote, quotte, borrowed from Late Latin quota, from Latin quotus. Doublet of quota, an unadapted borrowing.

(analytic geometry) applicate, z-coordinate (the last of the three terms by which a point is referred to, in a system of Cartesian coordinates for a three-dimensional space)


mot de passe

(computing) password (string of characters used to log in to a computer or network)


noyau

Backformed from Old French noyaus, plural of noyal, from Late Latin nucālis, from Latin nux.

(phonetics, phonology) nucleus of a syllable


théisme

(uncountable, pathology) theism (“a morbid condition resulting from excessive consumption of tea”)


arrobe

Borrowed from Spanish arroba, an old weight unit.


copule

Borrowed from Latin copula. Doublet of couple.


anse

Inherited from Middle French anse, from Late Old French anse, borrowed from Latin ānsa.

(geometry) an arc segment, from which an object is suspended


quint

fr-adj

quint (feminine quinte, masculine plural quints, feminine plural quintes)

quinte (feminine)
quints (masculine plural)
quintes (feminine plural)

la fièvre quinte

(archaic, medicine) occurring at an interval of five days


fulguré

fulguré (feminine fulgurée, masculine plural fulgurés, feminine plural fulgurées)

fulgurée (feminine)
fulgurés (masculine plural)
fulgurées (feminine plural)


gravé

gravé (feminine gravée, masculine plural gravés, feminine plural gravées)

gravée (feminine)
gravés (masculine plural)
gravées (feminine plural)


liquide

Inherited from Old French liquide, from Latin liquidus.

(phonology) liquid (class of consonant sounds)


renverser

renverser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
renversant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
renversé (participle past)
renverse (first-person indicative present singular)
renverses (indicative present second-person singular)
renverse (indicative present singular third-person)
renversons (first-person indicative plural present)
renversez (indicative plural present second-person)
renversent (indicative plural present third-person)
renversais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
renversais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
renversait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
renversions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
renversiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
renversaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
renversai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
renversas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
renversa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
renversâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
renversâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
renversèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
renverserai (first-person future indicative singular)
renverseras (future indicative second-person singular)
renversera (future indicative singular third-person)
renverserons (first-person future indicative plural)
renverserez (future indicative plural second-person)
renverseront (future indicative plural third-person)
renverserais (conditional first-person singular)
renverserais (conditional second-person singular)
renverserait (conditional singular third-person)
renverserions (conditional first-person plural)
renverseriez (conditional plural second-person)
renverseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
renverse (first-person present singular subjunctive)
renverses (present second-person singular subjunctive)
renverse (present singular subjunctive third-person)
renversions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
renversiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
renversent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
renversasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
renversasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
renversât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
renversassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
renversassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
renversassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
renverse (imperative second-person singular)
renversons (first-person imperative plural)
renversez (imperative plural second-person)

From re- + Old French enverser, the latter from Latin inversāre.

(transitive, grammar) to invert (change the positions of words in a sentence)


motivé

motivé (feminine motivée, masculine plural motivés, feminine plural motivées)

motivée (feminine)
motivés (masculine plural)
motivées (feminine plural)

un signe motivé

(semiotics) motivated, bearing a necessity between the signed and the signifier


obvie

Borrowed from Latin obvius, from ob- (“against”) + via (“way”).


trame

Inherited from Old French traime (altered to conform with the verb tramer), from Latin trāma.


conditionnel

Borrowed from Medieval Latin conditiōnālis (“conditional”), from conditiō (“condition”).

bor+

(linguistics, grammar) conditional, the conditional mood or the conditional tense


neutre

Inherited from Old French neutre, from Latin neuter.


planter

planter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
plantant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
planté (participle past)
plante (first-person indicative present singular)
plantes (indicative present second-person singular)
plante (indicative present singular third-person)
plantons (first-person indicative plural present)
plantez (indicative plural present second-person)
plantent (indicative plural present third-person)
plantais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
plantais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
plantait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
plantions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
plantiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
plantaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
plantai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
plantas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
planta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
plantâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
plantâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
plantèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
planterai (first-person future indicative singular)
planteras (future indicative second-person singular)
plantera (future indicative singular third-person)
planterons (first-person future indicative plural)
planterez (future indicative plural second-person)
planteront (future indicative plural third-person)
planterais (conditional first-person singular)
planterais (conditional second-person singular)
planterait (conditional singular third-person)
planterions (conditional first-person plural)
planteriez (conditional plural second-person)
planteraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
plante (first-person present singular subjunctive)
plantes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
plante (present singular subjunctive third-person)
plantions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
plantiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
plantent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
plantasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
plantasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
plantât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
plantassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
plantassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
plantassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
plante (imperative second-person singular)
plantons (first-person imperative plural)
plantez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Old French, from Latin plantāre.


tissu

Inherited from Old French tissu, participle of tistre (modern tisser). Compare Italian tessuto.


fleuve

Inherited from Middle French fleuve, from late Old French flueve (12th cent.), according to the traditional view, a dissimilated form of fluive, fluie, a re-borrowing of Latin fluvius (“stream”). Alternatively, confluence with Old French fluet, flot ("river, flood"; from Frankish *flōd) and/or borrowing from Old Norse flóð (“tidal flood, estuarine river or flood”) cannot be ruled out. See flot. Replaced native Old French fluns, flum, from Latin flūmen (compare Occitan flume, Romansch flüm, Italian fiume).

gl

"river, flood"; from Frankish <i class="Latn mention" lang="gmw-pro">*flōd</i>

cog

Les îles grandissent peu à peu et s'entourent d'une large ceinture de roches tapissées de mousses noirâtres ou de longs fucus bruns qui pendent à leurs flancs comme les roseaux de marbre dont les sculpteurs du dernier siècle ornaient leurs statues de fleuves.

1842, Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, “L’Archipel de Chausey, souvenirs d’un Naturaliste,”, in Revue des Deux Mondes, volume 30:

The islands gradually grow and are surrounded by a broad belt of rocks carpeted with blackish mosses or long brown seaweed hanging from their sides, like the marble reeds with which last century's sculptors decorated their statues of river gods.

(mythology, art) a river god, or the allegorical artistic representation of a river as an old, bearded man lying on reeds and holding or leaning on an urn from which the river's water flows


coquille

→ English: coquille

→ Romanian: cochilie

From a combination of Vulgar Latin *conchilia (from Latin conchylium) with coccum.

(medicine) vacuum mattress (for spinal immobilization)

(medicine) egg crate mattress (for prevention of bedsores)


tangente

Borrowed from Latin tangēntem, an ellipsis of [līnea] tangēns, "touching line".

(trigonometry) tangent (trigonometric function)


cotangente

(trigonometry) cotangent (trigonometric function)


antre

Borrowed from Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον (ántron).


pulsion

Borrowed from Latin pulsiōnem, from pulsus.


prunelle

tenir à quelque chose comme à la prunelle de ses yeux


réduire

réduire (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
réduisant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
réduit (participle past)
réduis (first-person indicative present singular)
réduis (indicative present second-person singular)
réduit (indicative present singular third-person)
réduisons (first-person indicative plural present)
réduisez (indicative plural present second-person)
réduisent (indicative plural present third-person)
réduisais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
réduisais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
réduisait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
réduisions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
réduisiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
réduisaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
réduisis (first-person historic indicative past singular)
réduisis (historic indicative past second-person singular)
réduisit (historic indicative past singular third-person)
réduisîmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
réduisîtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
réduisirent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
réduirai (first-person future indicative singular)
réduiras (future indicative second-person singular)
réduira (future indicative singular third-person)
réduirons (first-person future indicative plural)
réduirez (future indicative plural second-person)
réduiront (future indicative plural third-person)
réduirais (conditional first-person singular)
réduirais (conditional second-person singular)
réduirait (conditional singular third-person)
réduirions (conditional first-person plural)
réduiriez (conditional plural second-person)
réduiraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
réduise (first-person present singular subjunctive)
réduises (present second-person singular subjunctive)
réduise (present singular subjunctive third-person)
réduisions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
réduisiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
réduisent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
réduisisse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
réduisisses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
réduisît (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
réduisissions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
réduisissiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
réduisissent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
réduis (imperative second-person singular)
réduisons (first-person imperative plural)
réduisez (imperative plural second-person)

Inherited from Middle French reduire, from Old French reduire, an alteration or Gallicization of Latin redūcere (“reduce”), after conduire.


autosome

→ Romanian: autozom


Pallas

Borrowed from Latin Pallas, from Ancient Greek Παλλάς (Pallás).


pression

Learned borrowing from Latin pressiō, pressiōnis.

lbor

(medicine, physics, uncountable) pressure


chancre

→ English: chancre

Inherited from Middle French chancre, from Old French chancre, inherited from Latin cancrum, from Proto-Italic *kankros, dissimilation of *karkros (“enclosure”) (because the pincers of a crab form a circle), from Proto-Indo-European *kr-kr- (“circular”), reduplication of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Doublet of cancer.


purpura

Learned borrowing from Latin purpura. Doublet of pourpre.


croquant

(anatomy) antihelix (cartilage of the ear)


casse

Borrowed from Italian cassa, from Latin capsa. Doublet of châsse and caisse.

sensible à la casse


corbeille

→ English: corbeille

Inherited from Middle French corbeille, from Old French corbeille, corbeil, corbele, curbeyle, from Late Latin corbicula, diminutive of Latin corbis (“basket”), probably from Frankish *korb, from Proto-Germanic *kurbaz, *krebô (“basket”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“bundle”).


forme fruste

(medicine) forme fruste, unfinished form


réciproque

Learned borrowing from Latin reciprocus.


réciproque

La réciproque de A#92;RightarrowB est B#92;RightarrowA.


singulier

fr-adj

singulier (feminine singulière, masculine plural singuliers, feminine plural singulières)

singulière (feminine)
singuliers (masculine plural)
singulières (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Latin singulāris. Doublet of sanglier.


idée fixe

→ English: idée fixe

→ English: fixed idea (calque)

→ Swedish: fix idé (calque)

→ Russian: идефикс (idefiks)

desc

→ Russian: идея фикс (ideja fiks) (partial calque)

→ Turkish: idefiks


English: RU-486

Roussel+UCLAF+486, from Usines Chimiques des Laboratoires Français. From the codename RU-38486, the 38,486th compound synthesized by Roussel-Uclaf; then shortened to RU-486.

(pharmacology) RU-486: mifepristone: Synonym of mifépristone.


(pharmacology) RU-486: mifépristone: A drug formulation containing the active agent mifepristone


chronomètre

From chrono- + -mètre, from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”).


Poissons

the plural of poisson (“fish”), from Latin piscis (plural pisces, hence Pisces); the municipality (and hence the canton) may have an entirely different (Latin? Celtic?) origin, possibly aligned by popular etymology

(astrology) the zodiac sign Pisces, after the above


marteau

marteaux (plural)
martel (alternative archaic)

→ Chadian Arabic: مرتو (marto)

Inherited from Middle French marteau m, from a back-formation from Old French marteaus (ca. 1140), plural of martel, from Late Latin martellus, from martulus, variant form of marculus, diminutive of Latin marcus, or from malleus.


frein

→ Khmer: ហ្វ្រ័ង (frang)

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: فرن (fren), فرهن (fren)
Turkish: fren

→ Vietnamese: phanh

Inherited from Old French frein, from Latin frēnum n. Cognate with Portuguese freio and Spanish freno.
Cf. the borrowed freiner.

frein de la langue

frein du prépuce


-èdre

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra, “seat, base”).

bor+

hexa- (“hexa-”) + -èdre → hexaèdre (“hexahedron”)


-èdre

hexa- (“hexa-”) + -èdre → hexaèdre (“hexahedral”)


leucocyte

Coordinate term: érythrocyte


cardio-

From Ancient Greek καρδία (kardía, “heart”).


compteur

→ Khmer: កុងទ័រ (kongtɔə)

→ Lombard: contoeur

→ Malagasy: kaontera

→ Piedmontese: conteur

→ Turkish: kontör

→ Vietnamese: công tơ

From compter (“to count”) + -eur (“-er”). Doublet of conteur. Compare comptoir.


exponentiel

fr-adj

exponentiel (feminine exponentielle, masculine plural exponentiels, feminine plural exponentielles)

exponentielle (feminine)
exponentiels (masculine plural)
exponentielles (feminine plural)

croissance exponentielle

fonction exponentielle


formant

Borrowed from German Formant, from Latin fōrmāns (“shaping; forming; fashioning”), present participle of fōrmō (“to shape; to form; to fashion”). Doublet of formans.

der

(physics, phonetics) formant (band of frequencies, in a sound spectrum, that have a greater intensity; they determine the quality of a sound; especially the characteristic sounds of the consonants)

(linguistic morphology) formative (language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function)


phonologie

→ Turkish: fonoloji


réfection

Borrowed from Latin refectiōnem (“recovery, refection”), from reficiō (“restore, renew”).

bor+

(linguistics) refashioning, restoration, on the basis of its etymology, of a word which has undergone phonetic erosion through regular sound laws; the word resulting from that process


adnominal

fr-adj

adnominal (feminine adnominale, masculine plural adnominaux, feminine plural adnominales)

adnominale (feminine)
adnominaux (masculine plural)
adnominales (feminine plural)


initiale

* (noun sense 1): Ellipsis of lettre initiale.
* (noun sense 2): Ellipsis of consonne initiale.

(linguistics) initial, onset (first consonantal phoneme in a syllable. Often used in the study of Chinese languages)


substantif

substantif (feminine substantive, masculine plural substantifs, feminine plural substantives)

substantive (feminine)
substantifs (masculine plural)
substantives (feminine plural)

From Late Latin substantīvum, neuter singular of substantīvus (“substantive”), from substantia (“substance, essence”).


Anubis

(Egyptian mythology) Anubis (Egyptian god of burial)


télécharger

télécharger (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
téléchargeant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
téléchargé (participle past)
télécharge (first-person indicative present singular)
télécharges (indicative present second-person singular)
télécharge (indicative present singular third-person)
téléchargeons (first-person indicative plural present)
téléchargez (indicative plural present second-person)
téléchargent (indicative plural present third-person)
téléchargeais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
téléchargeais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
téléchargeait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
téléchargions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
téléchargiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
téléchargeaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
téléchargeai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
téléchargeas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
téléchargea (historic indicative past singular third-person)
téléchargeâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
téléchargeâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
téléchargèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
téléchargerai (first-person future indicative singular)
téléchargeras (future indicative second-person singular)
téléchargera (future indicative singular third-person)
téléchargerons (first-person future indicative plural)
téléchargerez (future indicative plural second-person)
téléchargeront (future indicative plural third-person)
téléchargerais (conditional first-person singular)
téléchargerais (conditional second-person singular)
téléchargerait (conditional singular third-person)
téléchargerions (conditional first-person plural)
téléchargeriez (conditional plural second-person)
téléchargeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
télécharge (first-person present singular subjunctive)
télécharges (present second-person singular subjunctive)
télécharge (present singular subjunctive third-person)
téléchargions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
téléchargiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
téléchargent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
téléchargeasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
téléchargeasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
téléchargeât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
téléchargeassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
téléchargeassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
téléchargeassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
télécharge (imperative second-person singular)
téléchargeons (first-person imperative plural)
téléchargez (imperative plural second-person)

(transitive; computing) to download (to transfer data from an outside source to one's own disk or data storage)

(transitive; computing) to upload (to transfer data to from one's own source to a second location)


angoisse

Inherited from Old French angoisse, from Latin angustia.


occipital

occipital (feminine occipitale, masculine plural occipitaux, feminine plural occipitales)

occipitale (feminine)
occipitaux (masculine plural)
occipitales (feminine plural)

Borrowed from New Latin occipitālis, from Latin occiput (whence occiput).

lobe occipital


connecter

connecter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
connectant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
connecté (participle past)
connecte (first-person indicative present singular)
connectes (indicative present second-person singular)
connecte (indicative present singular third-person)
connectons (first-person indicative plural present)
connectez (indicative plural present second-person)
connectent (indicative plural present third-person)
connectais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
connectais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
connectait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
connections (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
connectiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
connectaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
connectai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
connectas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
connecta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
connectâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
connectâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
connectèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
connecterai (first-person future indicative singular)
connecteras (future indicative second-person singular)
connectera (future indicative singular third-person)
connecterons (first-person future indicative plural)
connecterez (future indicative plural second-person)
connecteront (future indicative plural third-person)
connecterais (conditional first-person singular)
connecterais (conditional second-person singular)
connecterait (conditional singular third-person)
connecterions (conditional first-person plural)
connecteriez (conditional plural second-person)
connecteraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
connecte (first-person present singular subjunctive)
connectes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
connecte (present singular subjunctive third-person)
connections (first-person plural present subjunctive)
connectiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
connectent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
connectasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
connectasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
connectât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
connectassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
connectassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
connectassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
connecte (imperative second-person singular)
connectons (first-person imperative plural)
connectez (imperative plural second-person)

→ Dutch: connecteren

→ Franco-Provençal: conèctar

→ Occitan: connectar

→ Romanian: conecta

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intégrale

→ Persian: انتگرال (antegrâl)

Coordinate term: primitive


dermatite

From Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin”) + -ite.


couveuse

→ Danish: kuvøse

→ Dutch: couveuse

→ English: couveuse

→ Swedish: kuvös

→ Turkish: küvöz

(medicine) an incubator for sick or premature newborns; couveuse


raccourci clavier

fr-noun

raccourci clavier m (plural raccourcis clavier)

(computing) keyboard shortcut, hotkey (a combination of keystrokes that provides easier access to a command or operation)


foudroyant

fr-adj

foudroyant (feminine foudroyante, masculine plural foudroyants, feminine plural foudroyantes)

foudroyante (feminine)
foudroyants (masculine plural)
foudroyantes (feminine plural)

Il a contracté une méningite foudroyante.

(medicine) fulminant; fatal, deadly (coming on quickly and destructively)


décompiler

décompiler (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
décompilant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
décompilé (participle past)
décompile (first-person indicative present singular)
décompiles (indicative present second-person singular)
décompile (indicative present singular third-person)
décompilons (first-person indicative plural present)
décompilez (indicative plural present second-person)
décompilent (indicative plural present third-person)
décompilais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
décompilais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
décompilait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
décompilions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
décompiliez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
décompilaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
décompilai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
décompilas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
décompila (historic indicative past singular third-person)
décompilâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
décompilâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
décompilèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
décompilerai (first-person future indicative singular)
décompileras (future indicative second-person singular)
décompilera (future indicative singular third-person)
décompilerons (first-person future indicative plural)
décompilerez (future indicative plural second-person)
décompileront (future indicative plural third-person)
décompilerais (conditional first-person singular)
décompilerais (conditional second-person singular)
décompilerait (conditional singular third-person)
décompilerions (conditional first-person plural)
décompileriez (conditional plural second-person)
décompileraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
décompile (first-person present singular subjunctive)
décompiles (present second-person singular subjunctive)
décompile (present singular subjunctive third-person)
décompilions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
décompiliez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
décompilent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
décompilasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
décompilasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
décompilât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
décompilassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
décompilassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
décompilassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
décompile (imperative second-person singular)
décompilons (first-person imperative plural)
décompilez (imperative plural second-person)


compilateur

fr-noun

compilateur m (plural compilateurs, feminine compilatrice)

compilateurs (plural)
compilatrice (feminine)


assembleur

assembleur m (plural assembleurs, feminine assembleuse)

assembleurs (plural)
assembleuse (feminine)


langage machine

langage machine f (plural langages machine)


librairie

Learned borrowing from Latin librāria (“library”), from liber (“book”). Sense “bookseller, bookshop” is from 16th century, and displaced “library” sense. The sense “software library” is a semantic loan from English library.

lbor

(programming, sometimes proscribed) library (collection of software routines)


actif

fr-adj

actif (feminine active, masculine plural actifs, feminine plural actives)

active (feminine)
actifs (masculine plural)
actives (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French actif, from Latin āctīvus.

la voix active


actif

→ Turkish: aktif

Ses actifs permettent de conserver à la peau son élasticité tout en lui rendant un peu de fermeté.

2016 June 29, “Michele in Wonderland”, in Blogspot:

Its active ingredients maintain the skin's elasticity while rendering it a bit more firm.

(sciences) An active ingredient, in a perfume, experiment, etc.


méplat

Inherited from Middle French mesplat (“thicker on one side than on the other”), from Middle French mes- (“mis-”) + Middle French plat (“flat”), see French més- and plat for further etymology. By surface analysis, mé- + plat, although the semantics are different.


glande

→ Romanian: glandă

→ Russian: гла́нда (glánda) (see there for further descendants)

Inherited from Old French glandre, from Medical Latin glandula, from glāns, glāndem.

(medicine, non-technical) swollen lymph node


patte

From Middle French, from Old French pade, pate (“paw, foot of an animal”), from Vulgar Latin *patta (“paw, foot”), borrowed from Frankish *patta (“paw, sole of the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *pat-, *paþa- (“to walk, tread, go, step”), of uncertain origin and relation. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pent-, *(s)pat- (“path; to walk”), a variant of Proto-Indo-European *pent-, *pat- (“path; to go”).
Cognate with Dutch poot (“paw”), Low German pedden (“to step, tread”). Related to English pad, path.


Ariane

English: Ariane


proscription

From Latin prōscrīptiōnem, from prōscrībere (originally "publish in writing"), from prō- and scrībere.

(history) Condemnation made against political opponents, especially the Roman antiquity and during the French Revolution


norme

→ English: norm

→ Romanian: normă

→ Turkish: norm


colonne

→ Dutch: colonne

→ German: Kolonne

Inherited from Old French colonne, columne, from Latin columna. Doublet of colombe.

(computing) column (vertical part of a table or grid)


Élysée

→ English: Élysée

→ Korean: 엘리제 (Ellije)

Borrowed from Latin Elysium n, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἠλῠ́σῐον n (Ēlŭ́sĭon).

(Greek mythology, Roman mythology) Elysium