cliché

→ Catalan: clixé

→ Czech: klišé

→ Danish: kliché, kliche

→ English: cliché

→ Estonian: klišee

→ Finnish: klisee

→ Galician: clixé

→ German: Klischee

→ Hungarian: klisé

→ Icelandic: klisja

→ Macedonian: клише́ (klišé)

→ Persian: کلیشه (keliše)

desc

→ Portuguese: clichê, cliché (unadapted form)

→ Russian: клише́ (klišé)

→ Serbo-Croatian: klìšē/клѝше̄

→ Slovak: klišé

→ Slovene: kliše

→ Spanish: cliché

→ Turkish: klişe

Past participle of clicher (“to stereotype, (originally) to copy”, literally “to click, clink”), from Middle French clicher, from Old French cliquer (“to click, clack, sound, resound”), of Germanic origin, related to Dutch klikken (“to click, rattle”), Low German klikken (“to click”), German klicken (“to click”), Danish klikke (“to click”), Swedish klicka (“to click”). Probably onomatopoeic, and probably influenced by Middle High German klitsch (“soft, pulpy mass”), from the old technique of creating a printing plate. More at click.

cog

La reproduction dans la presse de dessins et de photographies se fait au moyen de clichés typographiques.
The reproduction in the press of drawings and photographs is done by means of typographical clichés.


apostrophe

→ English: apostrophe

→ Romanian: apostrof

desctree

→ Russian: апо́строф (apóstrof)
→ Azerbaijani: apostrof

→ Persian: آپاستروف (âpâstruf)

→ Turkish: apostrof

From Latin apostrophus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστροφος (apóstrophos, “accent of elision”), a noun use of an adjective from ἀποστρέφω (apostréphō, “to turn away”).


manga

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga). Doublet of manhwa.

Hiromu Arakawa est une jeune mangaka débutante quand elle envoie son premier projet chez un éditeur. L’histoire courte deviendra FullMetal Alchemist, un des mangas les plus vendus au Japon : 12 millions d’exemplaires !

2005 November 1, “Duck Action : 5 mangas inmangables ! [Duck Action: 5 Manga You Can’t Miss!]”, in Picsou Magazine (non-fiction), Disney Hachette Presse, page 27:

Hiromu Arakawa was a young mangaka debuting when she sent her first project to a publisher. That short story became FullMetal Alchemist, one of the best-selling manga in Japan: 12 million copies!

Osamu Tezuka est le plus grand dessinateur de manga. De 1947 à 1989, il dessine 150000 pages et crée d’innombrable séries : Astro Boy, le roi Léo, Metropolis, BlackJack, Les trois Adolf, Ayako, Phénix […]

Osamu Tezuka was the greatest manga artist. From 1947 to 1989, he drew 150,000 pages and created countless series: Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Metropolis, Black Jack, Message to Adolf, Ayako, Phoenix…

(comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)


Palestine

⇒ Dutch: Palestine

⇒ Italian: Palestina

(printing, dated) double pica (large size of type standardized as 24 points)


pied

Haitian Creole: pye

Inherited from Middle French pied, from Old French pié, from Latin pedem. The -d was added to the spelling in Middle French after the Latin form.
Cognate with Italian piede, Catalan peu, Spanish pie, Portuguese pé, and further with English foot, Lithuanian pėda, Persian پا (pâ) etc.


gras

fr-adj

gras (feminine grasse, masculine plural gras, feminine plural grasses)

grasse (feminine)
gras (masculine plural)
grasses (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old French gras, from Late Latin grassus. Doublet of crasse.


arc

Inherited from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“bow, arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo-.


type

→ Polish: typ

→ Romanian: tip

→ Persian: تیپ (tip)

→ Turkish: tip

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos).


puce

Inherited from Old French puce, pulce, from Latin pūlicem, from Proto-Indo-European *plúsis (“flea”).


fine

(typography) thin space, non-breakable space


rampant

fr-adj

rampant (feminine rampante, masculine plural rampants, feminine plural rampantes)

rampante (feminine)
rampants (masculine plural)
rampantes (feminine plural)


barre

→ English: barre

→ Romanian: bară

→ Vietnamese: ba-rê

From Middle French barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Frankish *bara (“bar, beam, barrier, fence”), from Proto-Germanic *barō (“beam, bar, barrier”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to strike, pierce”).
If so, then cognate with Old High German para, bara (“bar, beam, one's cherished land”), Middle Dutch bāre, baer (“bar, barrier, rail”), Old Frisian ber (“attack, assault”), Swedish bärling (“a spoke”), Norwegian berling (“a small bar in a vehicle, rod”), Latin forus (“gangway, plank”), Russian забо́р (zabór, “fencing, paling, fence”), Ancient Greek φάρος (pháros, “piece of land, furrow, marker, beacon, lighthouse”).
An alternative etymology derives Old French barre and Vulgar Latin *barra from a Celtic source related to Breton barri (“branch, twig”).
Doublet of bar.

cog

(typography) Clipping of barre oblique: the slash mark ⟨/⟩

barre de fraction
barre de fraction#French

(typography) Clipping of barre de fraction: the fraction slash ⟨⁄⟩

(typography) Clipping of barre inscrite: the bar diacritics ⟨̵⟩, ⟨̶⟩, ⟨̷⟩, and ⟨̸⟩

barre inscrite

(typography) Clipping of barre verticale: the vertical bar ⟨|⟩

barre oblique inversée
barre oblique inversée#French

(typography, improper) Clipping of barre oblique inversée: the backslash ⟨\⟩


hors-d'œuvre

hors-d’œuvre (canonical masculine)
hors-d’œuvre (plural)

(literature) digression (act of straying from the main subject that could be removed from the text without detriment to the main plot)


hors-d'œuvre

(literature) off-topic, digressive (not relating directly to the subject at hand)


police

→ German: Police

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: پولیس (polis)
Turkish: polis

police de caractères

police d’écriture ― typeface


fantasy

Unadapted borrowing from English fantasy. Doublet of fantaisie.


feuilleton

→ English: feuilleton

→ German: Feuilleton

→ Italian: feuilleton, fogliettone

→ Swedish: följetong

→ Danish: føljeton

(literature) serial, feuilleton, literary article


composition

→ Korean: 콩포지숑 (kongpojisyong) (rare)

→ Turkish: kompozisyon

Inherited from Old French composicion, borrowed from Latin compositiōnem.


portrait

→ Bulgarian: портрет (portret)

→ Czech: portrét

desctree

→ Dutch: portret
Afrikaans: portret
Petjo: potrèt
→ Caribbean Javanese: potrèg, potrèt
→ Indonesian: potret
→ Papiamentu: portrèt, pòtrèt, pòrtrèt, portret

→ German: Porträt, Portrait (rarer since ca. 1900, now nonstandard outside Switzerland)
→ Russian: портрет (portret)
→ Serbo-Croatian: portret / портрет
→ Ukrainian: портрет (portret)

desc

→ Greek: πορτρέτο (portréto), πορτραίτο n (portraíto)

→ Norwegian: portrett

→ Polish: portret

→ Romanian: portret

→ Slovene: portret

→ Swedish: porträtt
→ Finnish: potretti

→ Turkish: portre


diamant

Borrowed from Dutch diamant, used by Dirck Voskens who first cut it around 1700, presumably naming it by analogy with the larger perle.

(uncountable, printing, dated) excelsior (a small size of type, standardized as 3 point)


moule

Inherited from Old French modle, an old (11th century) borrowing from Latin modulus (“measure”) (compare Catalan motlle). Doublet of module, a more recent borrowing.


verso

Borrowed from Latin versō, ablative of versus.


crochet

→ English: crochet

→ Portuguese: colchete (“hook, bracket”)

→ Portuguese: crochê (“crochet”), croché, crochet (unadapted form)

→ Spanish: corchete

→ Turkish: kroşe


bande dessinée

fr-noun

bande dessinée f (plural bandes dessinées)


chapeau

Antillean Creole: chapo

→ Chinook Jargon: siyáputl, siyápo

→ Quileute: tsiyá·pos

→ Choctaw: shʋpo, shapo

→ Galician: chapeu

→ German: Chapeau

→ Hausa: shàpô

desc

→ Hebrew: שָׁאפּוֹ

→ Hebrew: שָׁאפּוֹ

→ Iberian:

Catalan: xapó

Galician: chapeu

desctree

Portuguese: chapéu; (obsolete) chapeo
→ Konkani: चेपें (cepẽ)
→ Ladino: chapeo
→ Manado Malay: capeo (“hat”)
→ Swahili: chepeo

Spanish: chapeo

→ Jeju: 사포 (sapo)

→ Narragansett: shapú

Inherited from Middle French chappeau m, from Old French chapel m, from Early Medieval Latin cappellus m, diminutive from Late Latin cappa f. The interjection was originally short for chapeau bas.


tympan

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


couplet

→ Dutch: couplet

→ English: couplet

→ German: Couplet

→ Spanish: cuplé

→ Russian: купле́т (kuplét)


fleuron

Inherited from Old French floron, fleur + -on, architectural sense probably influenced by Italian fiorone.


espace

Inherited from Middle French espace, from Old French espace, borrowed from Latin spatium.

espace insécable


méchant

fr-noun

méchant m (plural méchants, feminine méchante)

From the present participle of the Old French verb mescheoir, from *mé- + cheoir (choir). Compare also mauvais.


enjambement

/ɑ̃.ʒɑ̃b.mɑ̃/

From enjamber (“to stride; to straddle”) + -ment.


trame

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


cheville

Inherited from Old French cheville, from Vulgar Latin *cavicla, dissimilated and syncopated form of Classical Latin clāvicula, diminutive of clāvis (“key”). Doublet of clavicule, a borrowing.


strophe

Borrowed from Latin stropha, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek στροφή (strophḗ).


casse

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

sensible à la casse


paysage

→ Albanian: peizazh

→ English: paysage

→ Esperanto: pejzaĝo

→ Polish: pejzaż

→ Romanian: peisaj

desctree

→ Russian: пейза́ж (pejzáž)
→ Georgian: პეიზაჟი (ṗeizaži)
→ Kazakh: пейзаж (peizaj)

→ Serbo-Croatian: pejzaž

→ Turkish: peyzaj

From pays + -age. Cf. also Italian paesaggio, Catalan paisatge, Spanish paisaje, Portuguese paisagem, Romanian peisaj.


gomme

→ Vietnamese: gôm

Borrowed from Late Latin gumma, from Latin cummi, gummi, from Ancient Greek κόμμι (kómmi), from Egyptian qmy (“anointing oil”), qmyt (“acanthus resin, gum”).


rondeau

From Old French rondel, diminutive of ront.


philosophie

From Old French philosophie < Latin philosophia, from Ancient Greek.

(printing, dated) small pica: 11-point type


glyphe

→ English: glyph

→ Finnish: glyyfi

→ Italian: glifo

→ Portuguese: glifo

→ Russian: глиф (glif)

→ Spanish: glifo

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek γλυφή (gluphḗ, “carving”). First attested in 1701.


hirondelle

Borrowed from Old Occitan irondela, diminutive of irunda, ironda, ultimately from Latin hirundō. Replaced Old French arondelle, diminutive of aronde, from Latin hirundō (compare also harundō).

(printing) alignment mark printed in the margin


capitaliser

capitaliser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
capitalisant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
capitalisé (participle past)
capitalise (first-person indicative present singular)
capitalises (indicative present second-person singular)
capitalise (indicative present singular third-person)
capitalisons (first-person indicative plural present)
capitalisez (indicative plural present second-person)
capitalisent (indicative plural present third-person)
capitalisais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
capitalisais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
capitalisait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
capitalisions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
capitalisiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
capitalisaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
capitalisai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
capitalisas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
capitalisa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
capitalisâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
capitalisâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
capitalisèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
capitaliserai (first-person future indicative singular)
capitaliseras (future indicative second-person singular)
capitalisera (future indicative singular third-person)
capitaliserons (first-person future indicative plural)
capitaliserez (future indicative plural second-person)
capitaliseront (future indicative plural third-person)
capitaliserais (conditional first-person singular)
capitaliserais (conditional second-person singular)
capitaliserait (conditional singular third-person)
capitaliserions (conditional first-person plural)
capitaliseriez (conditional plural second-person)
capitaliseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
capitalise (first-person present singular subjunctive)
capitalises (present second-person singular subjunctive)
capitalise (present singular subjunctive third-person)
capitalisions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
capitalisiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
capitalisent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
capitalisasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
capitalisasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
capitalisât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
capitalisassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
capitalisassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
capitalisassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
capitalise (imperative second-person singular)
capitalisons (first-person imperative plural)
capitalisez (imperative plural second-person)


parisienne

(printing, dated) a small size of type, standardized as 5 point


parabole

Inherited from Old French parabole, borrowed from Late Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of parole, which was inherited.


fantastique

desctree

→⇒ Dutch: fantastisch
Petjo: fantasties
→ Indonesian: fantastis

→⇒ German: fantastisch

→ Romanian: fantastic

Borrowed from Late Latin phantasticus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek φᾰντᾰστῐκός (phăntăstĭkós).

der

(film, literature) related to the fantastique genre.


fantastique

→ English: fantastique

(film, literature) A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story.


barre oblique

fr-noun

barre oblique f (plural barres obliques)


serré

fr-adj

serré (feminine serrée, masculine plural serrés, feminine plural serrées)

serrée (feminine)
serrés (masculine plural)
serrées (feminine plural)


manhua

Borrowed from Mandarin 漫畫 /漫画 (mànhuà), from Japanese 漫(まん)画(が) (manga). Doublet of manga and manhwa.

(comics) manhua (comic originating in China)


manhwa

Borrowed from Korean 만화(漫畫) (manhwa), from Japanese 漫(まん)画(が) (manga). Doublet of manga and manhua.

(comics) manhwa (comic originating in Korea)


numéraire

Learned borrowing from Late Latin numerārius, from numerus (whence French nombre).


desserrer

desserrer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
desserrant (gerund participle present)
desserrant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
desserré (participle past)
desserré (participle past)
desserre (first-person indicative present singular)
desserres (indicative present second-person singular)
desserre (indicative present singular third-person)
desserrons (first-person indicative plural present)
desserrons (first-person indicative plural present)
desserrez (indicative plural present second-person)
desserrez (indicative plural present second-person)
desserrent (indicative plural present third-person)
desserrais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
desserrais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
desserrais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
desserrais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
desserrait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
desserrait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
desserrions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
desserrions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
desserriez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
desserriez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
desserraient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
desserraient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
desserrai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
desserrai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
desserras (historic indicative past second-person singular)
desserras (historic indicative past second-person singular)
desserra (historic indicative past singular third-person)
desserra (historic indicative past singular third-person)
desserrâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
desserrâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
desserrâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
desserrâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
desserrèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
desserrèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
desserrerai (first-person future indicative singular)
desserrerai (first-person future indicative singular)
desserreras (future indicative second-person singular)
desserreras (future indicative second-person singular)
desserrera (future indicative singular third-person)
desserrera (future indicative singular third-person)
desserrerons (first-person future indicative plural)
desserrerons (first-person future indicative plural)
desserrerez (future indicative plural second-person)
desserrerez (future indicative plural second-person)
desserreront (future indicative plural third-person)
desserreront (future indicative plural third-person)
desserrerais (conditional first-person singular)
desserrerais (conditional first-person singular)
desserrerais (conditional second-person singular)
desserrerais (conditional second-person singular)
desserrerait (conditional singular third-person)
desserrerait (conditional singular third-person)
desserrerions (conditional first-person plural)
desserrerions (conditional first-person plural)
desserreriez (conditional plural second-person)
desserreriez (conditional plural second-person)
desserreraient (conditional plural third-person)
desserreraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
desserre (first-person present singular subjunctive)
desserres (present second-person singular subjunctive)
desserre (present singular subjunctive third-person)
desserrions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
desserrions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
desserriez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
desserriez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
desserrent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
desserrasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
desserrasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
desserrasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
desserrasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
desserrât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
desserrât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
desserrassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
desserrassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
desserrassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
desserrassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
desserrassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
desserrassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
desserre (imperative second-person singular)
desserrons (first-person imperative plural)
desserrons (first-person imperative plural)
desserrez (imperative plural second-person)
desserrez (imperative plural second-person)

From dé- (“undo”) + serrer (“to tighten”).


terraformer

terraformer (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
terraformant (gerund participle present)
terraformant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
terraformé (participle past)
terraformé (participle past)
terraforme (first-person indicative present singular)
terraforme (first-person indicative present singular)
terraformes (indicative present second-person singular)
terraformes (indicative present second-person singular)
terraforme (indicative present singular third-person)
terraforme (indicative present singular third-person)
terraformons (first-person indicative plural present)
terraformons (first-person indicative plural present)
terraformez (indicative plural present second-person)
terraformez (indicative plural present second-person)
terraforment (indicative plural present third-person)
terraforment (indicative plural present third-person)
terraformais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
terraformais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
terraformais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
terraformais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
terraformait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
terraformait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
terraformions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
terraformions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
terraformiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
terraformiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
terraformaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
terraformaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
terraformai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
terraformai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
terraformas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
terraformas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
terraforma (historic indicative past singular third-person)
terraforma (historic indicative past singular third-person)
terraformâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
terraformâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
terraformâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
terraformâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
terraformèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
terraformèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
terraformerai (first-person future indicative singular)
terraformerai (first-person future indicative singular)
terraformeras (future indicative second-person singular)
terraformeras (future indicative second-person singular)
terraformera (future indicative singular third-person)
terraformera (future indicative singular third-person)
terraformerons (first-person future indicative plural)
terraformerons (first-person future indicative plural)
terraformerez (future indicative plural second-person)
terraformerez (future indicative plural second-person)
terraformeront (future indicative plural third-person)
terraformeront (future indicative plural third-person)
terraformerais (conditional first-person singular)
terraformerais (conditional first-person singular)
terraformerais (conditional second-person singular)
terraformerais (conditional second-person singular)
terraformerait (conditional singular third-person)
terraformerait (conditional singular third-person)
terraformerions (conditional first-person plural)
terraformerions (conditional first-person plural)
terraformeriez (conditional plural second-person)
terraformeriez (conditional plural second-person)
terraformeraient (conditional plural third-person)
terraformeraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
terraforme (first-person present singular subjunctive)
terraforme (first-person present singular subjunctive)
terraformes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
terraformes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
terraforme (present singular subjunctive third-person)
terraforme (present singular subjunctive third-person)
terraformions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
terraformions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
terraformiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
terraformiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
terraforment (plural present subjunctive third-person)
terraforment (plural present subjunctive third-person)
terraformasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
terraformasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
terraformasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
terraformasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
terraformât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
terraformât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
terraformassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
terraformassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
terraformassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
terraformassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
terraformassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
terraformassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
terraforme (imperative second-person singular)
terraforme (imperative second-person singular)
terraformons (first-person imperative plural)
terraformons (first-person imperative plural)
terraformez (imperative plural second-person)
terraformez (imperative plural second-person)

(transitive, science fiction) to terraform


dithyrambique

Learned borrowing from Latin dithyrambicus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek διθυραμβικός (dithurambikós). By surface analysis, dithyrambe + -ique.

der

διθυραμβικός


lamartinien

fr-adj

lamartinien (feminine lamartinienne, masculine plural lamartiniens, feminine plural lamartiniennes)

lamartinienne (feminine)
lamartiniens (masculine plural)
lamartiniennes (feminine plural)

→ English: Lamartinian

From Lamartine + -ien, after Alphonse de Lamartine.


platine

→ German: Platine


épopée

→ Greek: εποποιία (epopoiía) (learned)

→ Turkish: epope


téléporter

téléporter (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
téléportant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
téléporté (participle past)
téléporte (first-person indicative present singular)
téléportes (indicative present second-person singular)
téléporte (indicative present singular third-person)
téléportons (first-person indicative plural present)
téléportez (indicative plural present second-person)
téléportent (indicative plural present third-person)
téléportais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
téléportais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
téléportait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
téléportions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
téléportiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
téléportaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
téléportai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
téléportas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
téléporta (historic indicative past singular third-person)
téléportâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
téléportâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
téléportèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
téléporterai (first-person future indicative singular)
téléporteras (future indicative second-person singular)
téléportera (future indicative singular third-person)
téléporterons (first-person future indicative plural)
téléporterez (future indicative plural second-person)
téléporteront (future indicative plural third-person)
téléporterais (conditional first-person singular)
téléporterais (conditional second-person singular)
téléporterait (conditional singular third-person)
téléporterions (conditional first-person plural)
téléporteriez (conditional plural second-person)
téléporteraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
téléporte (first-person present singular subjunctive)
téléportes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
téléporte (present singular subjunctive third-person)
téléportions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
téléportiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
téléportent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
téléportasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
téléportasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
téléportât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
téléportassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
téléportassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
téléportassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
téléporte (imperative second-person singular)
téléportons (first-person imperative plural)
téléportez (imperative plural second-person)

(science fiction) to teleport, to beam up


envoi

→ English: envoi, envoy

From earlier envei, envoy; from the verb envoyer (“to send”).


alinéa

→ Dutch: alinea

→ Esperanto: alineo

Univerbation of the Latin phrase ā līneā.

(typography) indented line (at the start of a new paragraph)


scander

scander (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
scandant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
scandé (participle past)
scande (first-person indicative present singular)
scandes (indicative present second-person singular)
scande (indicative present singular third-person)
scandons (first-person indicative plural present)
scandez (indicative plural present second-person)
scandent (indicative plural present third-person)
scandais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
scandais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
scandait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
scandions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
scandiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
scandaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
scandai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
scandas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
scanda (historic indicative past singular third-person)
scandâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
scandâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
scandèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
scanderai (first-person future indicative singular)
scanderas (future indicative second-person singular)
scandera (future indicative singular third-person)
scanderons (first-person future indicative plural)
scanderez (future indicative plural second-person)
scanderont (future indicative plural third-person)
scanderais (conditional first-person singular)
scanderais (conditional second-person singular)
scanderait (conditional singular third-person)
scanderions (conditional first-person plural)
scanderiez (conditional plural second-person)
scanderaient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
scande (first-person present singular subjunctive)
scandes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
scande (present singular subjunctive third-person)
scandions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
scandiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
scandent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
scandasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
scandasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
scandât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
scandassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
scandassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
scandassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
scande (imperative second-person singular)
scandons (first-person imperative plural)
scandez (imperative plural second-person)


friser

friser (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
frisant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
frisé (participle past)
frise (first-person indicative present singular)
frises (indicative present second-person singular)
frise (indicative present singular third-person)
frisons (first-person indicative plural present)
frisez (indicative plural present second-person)
frisent (indicative plural present third-person)
frisais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
frisais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
frisait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
frisions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
frisiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
frisaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
frisai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
frisas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
frisa (historic indicative past singular third-person)
frisâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
frisâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
frisèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
friserai (first-person future indicative singular)
friseras (future indicative second-person singular)
frisera (future indicative singular third-person)
friserons (first-person future indicative plural)
friserez (future indicative plural second-person)
friseront (future indicative plural third-person)
friserais (conditional first-person singular)
friserais (conditional second-person singular)
friserait (conditional singular third-person)
friserions (conditional first-person plural)
friseriez (conditional plural second-person)
friseraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
frise (first-person present singular subjunctive)
frises (present second-person singular subjunctive)
frise (present singular subjunctive third-person)
frisions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
frisiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
frisent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
frisasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
frisasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
frisât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
frisassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
frisassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
frisassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
frise (imperative second-person singular)
frisons (first-person imperative plural)
frisez (imperative plural second-person)

Of Germanic origin, from Old Frisian frisle (“curly hair”), from Proto-Germanic *frisaz (“curly, frizzy”). Related to English frizz.


sabre laser

(science fiction) lightsaber (sword having a blade made of a powerful beam of light)


univers parallèle

fr-noun

univers parallèle m (plural univers parallèles)


trouvère

trouvère m (plural trouvères, feminine trouveresse or trouvèresse)

trouvères (plural)
trouveresse (feminine)
trouvèresse (feminine)

Inherited from Middle French trouvere, from Old French trovere (nominative singular case of troveor, from trover (“to find”) + -eor (agent noun suffix)), or possibly corresponding to a Gallo-Vulgar Latin *tropātor, from the verb *tropō, tropāre, from Latin tropus. Cognate with Old Occitan, Occitan, and Catalan trobador (the form trouvère is directly cognate with the Occitan form trobaire, itself from the nominative singular case of the corresponding Old Occitan form), from the verb trobar (“to find”).

cog

Ainsi, la poésie lyrique des troubadours et des trouvères, et surtout la portion de cette poésie qui roule sur les sentimens de galanterie chevaleresque, n’a pas une source latine; cette poésie est née avec la galanterie chevaleresque elle-même, […].

1839, Jean-Jacques Ampère, La Littérature française au moyen-âge, volume 19, Revue des Deux Mondes:

Thus, the lyric poetry of the troubadours and trouvères, and especially that part of this poetry which revolves around the sentiments of chivalric gallantry, does not have a Latin source; this poetry was born with chivalric gallantry itself, […] .

(poetry) a trouvère, medieval lyric poet using the Northern langue d'oïl (precursor lects of modern French), as opposed to their older, southern example, the original troubadours, who used langue d'oc (Occitan)


tirage

Czech: tiráž

English: tirage

→ Romanian: tiraj

→ Turkish: tiraj

desctree

Russian: тира́ж (tiráž)
→ Azerbaijani: tiraj
→ Georgian: ტირაჟი (ṭiraži)

(printing) printing (putting symbols on a newspaper)

(printing) circulation (number of copies sold of e.g. a newspaper)


stryge

Borrowed from Latin strīga, from strīx, from Ancient Greek στρίξ (stríx). Compare Old French estrie, which was the inherited form.


accoler

accoler (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
accolant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
accolé (participle past)
accole (first-person indicative present singular)
accoles (indicative present second-person singular)
accole (indicative present singular third-person)
accolons (first-person indicative plural present)
accolez (indicative plural present second-person)
accolent (indicative plural present third-person)
accolais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
accolais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
accolait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
accolions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
accoliez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
accolaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
accolai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
accolas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
accola (historic indicative past singular third-person)
accolâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
accolâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
accolèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
accolerai (first-person future indicative singular)
accoleras (future indicative second-person singular)
accolera (future indicative singular third-person)
accolerons (first-person future indicative plural)
accolerez (future indicative plural second-person)
accoleront (future indicative plural third-person)
accolerais (conditional first-person singular)
accolerais (conditional second-person singular)
accolerait (conditional singular third-person)
accolerions (conditional first-person plural)
accoleriez (conditional plural second-person)
accoleraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
accole (first-person present singular subjunctive)
accoles (present second-person singular subjunctive)
accole (present singular subjunctive third-person)
accolions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
accoliez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
accolent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
accolasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
accolasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
accolât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
accolassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
accolassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
accolassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
accole (imperative second-person singular)
accolons (first-person imperative plural)
accolez (imperative plural second-person)


gaillarde

(printing, dated) galliard: the size of type between petit-texte and petit-romain, standardized as 9 Fournier points (3.06 mm) then as 8 Didot points (3.00 or 3.01 mm)


schtroumpf

Coined by Peyo, probably from German Strumpf (“stocking, sock”), which is not semantically related, but peculiar and “funny sounding” to the French ear because of the unfamiliar combinations of consonants. See also smurf.


microscopique

(Dutch) microscoop, microscopie

(German) Microscopique

From microscope + -ique. Its typographic use derives from Henri Didot, who first cut type of this size in 1827.

(printing, uncommon, dated) Norse (2½-point type)


stéréotype

→ English: stereotype

→ German: Stereotyp

(printing) stereotype (metal printing plate cast)


lyrique

fr-noun

lyrique m or f by sense (plural lyriques)


césure

césure trihémimère, césure penthémimère

(poetry) caesura (a pause or interruption)


(typography) A narrow non-breaking space, used to space out the punctuation marks ?, !, « », :, ;, %, ‹ ›, € and other currency symbols, and between opening and closing –


églogue

From Latin ecloga, from Ancient Greek ἐκλογή (eklogḗ, “selection”).


enjamber

enjamber (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
enjambant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
enjambé (participle past)
enjambe (first-person indicative present singular)
enjambes (indicative present second-person singular)
enjambe (indicative present singular third-person)
enjambons (first-person indicative plural present)
enjambez (indicative plural present second-person)
enjambent (indicative plural present third-person)
enjambais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
enjambais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
enjambait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
enjambions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
enjambiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
enjambaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
enjambai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
enjambas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
enjamba (historic indicative past singular third-person)
enjambâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
enjambâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
enjambèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
enjamberai (first-person future indicative singular)
enjamberas (future indicative second-person singular)
enjambera (future indicative singular third-person)
enjamberons (first-person future indicative plural)
enjamberez (future indicative plural second-person)
enjamberont (future indicative plural third-person)
enjamberais (conditional first-person singular)
enjamberais (conditional second-person singular)
enjamberait (conditional singular third-person)
enjamberions (conditional first-person plural)
enjamberiez (conditional plural second-person)
enjamberaient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
enjambe (first-person present singular subjunctive)
enjambes (present second-person singular subjunctive)
enjambe (present singular subjunctive third-person)
enjambions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
enjambiez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
enjambent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
enjambasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
enjambasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
enjambât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
enjambassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
enjambassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
enjambassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
enjambe (imperative second-person singular)
enjambons (first-person imperative plural)
enjambez (imperative plural second-person)


xylographie

(art, printing) xylography, woodblock printing


tabloïd

Borrowed from English tabloid. Analyzable within French as table + -oïde.


inplano

(printing, publishing) A book size as large as an unfolded leaf of paper, forming two pages.

(printing, publishing) A volume, or book, in this format.


inplano

(printing, publishing) Said with reference to a book printed in this size.


BDQ

(comics) Initialism of bande dessinée québécoise (“Quebecois comic strip”). (bande dessinée)


BDK

(comics, obsolete) Initialism of bande dessinée kébécoise (“Quebecois comic strip”). (bande dessinée)


sans artifice

(art, literature) naturally, unpretentiously


zutiste

fr-noun

zutiste m or f by sense (plural zutistes)

(literature) member of a group of nineteenth-century French poets


aérotrain

From aéro- + train. Attested in 1890 as aéro-train.

(obsolete, science fiction) aerotrain (flying vehicle)


mistralien

fr-adj

mistralien (feminine mistralienne, masculine plural mistraliens, feminine plural mistraliennes)

mistralienne (feminine)
mistraliens (masculine plural)
mistraliennes (feminine plural)


alexandrin

(poetry) alexandrine (line of poetic meter having twelve syllables)


entrelacement

From entrelacer (“to interlace”) + -ment.

(literature) A medieval French literary technique in which multiple narratives are interlaced into one coherent whole, allowing for moral and ironic commentary


shakespearien

shakespearien (feminine shakespearienne, masculine plural shakespeariens, feminine plural shakespeariennes)

shakespearienne (feminine)
shakespeariens (masculine plural)
shakespeariennes (feminine plural)

From English Shakespeare + -ien (“-ian”).


virguler

virguler (infinitive)
avoir + past participle (infinitive multiword-construction)
virgulant (gerund participle present)
ayant + past participle (gerund multiword-construction participle present)
virgulé (participle past)
virgule (first-person indicative present singular)
virgules (indicative present second-person singular)
virgule (indicative present singular third-person)
virgulons (first-person indicative plural present)
virgulez (indicative plural present second-person)
virgulent (indicative plural present third-person)
virgulais (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
virgulais (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
virgulait (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
virgulions (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
virguliez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
virgulaient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
virgulai (first-person historic indicative past singular)
virgulas (historic indicative past second-person singular)
virgula (historic indicative past singular third-person)
virgulâmes (first-person historic indicative past plural)
virgulâtes (historic indicative past plural second-person)
virgulèrent (historic indicative past plural third-person)
virgulerai (first-person future indicative singular)
virguleras (future indicative second-person singular)
virgulera (future indicative singular third-person)
virgulerons (first-person future indicative plural)
virgulerez (future indicative plural second-person)
virguleront (future indicative plural third-person)
virgulerais (conditional first-person singular)
virgulerais (conditional second-person singular)
virgulerait (conditional singular third-person)
virgulerions (conditional first-person plural)
virguleriez (conditional plural second-person)
virguleraient (conditional plural third-person)
future of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
conditional of avoir + past participle (conditional multiword-construction perfect)
virgule (first-person present singular subjunctive)
virgules (present second-person singular subjunctive)
virgule (present singular subjunctive third-person)
virgulions (first-person plural present subjunctive)
virguliez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
virgulent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
virgulasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
virgulasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
virgulât (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
virgulassions (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
virgulassiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
virgulassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
virgule (imperative second-person singular)
virgulons (first-person imperative plural)
virgulez (imperative plural second-person)

(typography) to put a comma or commas (in a text)


machine à explorer le temps

fr-noun

machine à explorer le temps f (plural machines à explorer le temps)

L’auto bringuebalante qui m’avait amené devait être une machine à explorer le temps. Je n’avais pas seulement changé de pays, mais d’époque ; je reculais brusquement de mille ans.

1944, Roland Dorgelès, Route des tropiques, Albin Michel, page 24:


machine à voyager dans le temps

machine à voyager dans le temps f (plural machines à voyager dans le temps)

machines à voyager dans le temps (plural)

Literally, “machine to travel in [the] time”.


marchand de sable

fr-noun

marchand de sable m (plural marchands de sable)

Le marchand de sable est passé.


champ de force

champ de force m (plural champs de force)

LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-champ de force.wav


sédanoise

From Sedan + -oise. Its typographic use derives from the residence in Sedan of Jean Jannon, who created it for his miniature editions of Vergil, Horace, & the New Testament in the 1620s, the smallest printed works to his time.


décadentisme

→ Polish: dekadentyzm

desc

декаденти́зм

→ Ukrainian: декаденти́зм (dekadentýzm)

(art, literature) decadentism, decadent movement


antigravitationnel

fr-adj

antigravitationnel (feminine antigravitationnelle, masculine plural antigravitationnels, feminine plural antigravitationnelles)

antigravitationnelle (feminine)
antigravitationnels (masculine plural)
antigravitationnelles (feminine plural)

From anti- + gravitationnel or antigravitation + -el.


galée

Inherited from Middle French and Old French galee.


pétrarquisme

fr-noun

pétrarquisme m (countable and uncountable, plural pétrarquismes)

From Pétrarque (“Petrarch”) + -isme (“-ism”).


cadrat

Borrowed from Latin quadratus (possibly through the intermediate of Italian quadrato). Compare the inherited doublet carré.


barre de fraction

barre de fraction f (plural barres de fraction)

(typography, mathematics) the fraction bar; the fraction slash ⟨⁄⟩


barre inscrite

barre inscrite f (plural barres inscrites)

(typography) the bar diacritics ⟨̵⟩, ⟨̶⟩, ⟨̷⟩, and ⟨̸⟩


barre verticale

barre verticale f (plural barres verticales)

(typography) the pipe mark ⟨[[Unsupported titles/Vertical line||]]⟩


barre oblique inversée

barre oblique inversée f (plural barres obliques inversées)

LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-barre oblique inversée.wav


pataphysique

Coined by French writer Alfred Jarry. In his work Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll pataphysicien (“Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician”), the etymology is given as Ancient Greek ἔπι (μετὰ τὰ φυσικά) (épi (metà tà phusiká), “over (metaphysics))”), an allusion to Τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά (Tà metà tà phusiká, literally “the [writings] after the Physics”), the original title of Metaphysics by Aristotle. The invented prefix pata- plays with the proximity of words such as patate (“potato”) or pataquès (“mumble”).

der

ἔπι (μετὰ τὰ φυσικά)

La pataphysique, dont l’étymologie doit s’écrire ἔπι (μετὰ τὰ φυσικά) et l’orthographe réelle ’pataphysique, précédé d’un apostrophe, afin d’éviter un facile calembour, est la science de ce qui se surajoute à la métaphysique, soit en elle-même, soit hors d’elle-même, s’étendant aussi loin au delà de celle-ci que celle-ci au delà de la physique.

1911, Alfred Jarry, Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, book 2, Fasquelle, page 21:

Pataphysics, whose etymology should be written as ἔπι (μετὰ τὰ φυσικά) and the actual orthography as ’pataphysics, preceded by an apostrophe to avoid a facile pun, is the science which, both in itself and beyond, expands metaphysics to the same degree as the latter physics.

(literature, humorous) pataphysics (absurdist philosophy)


espace insécable

fr-noun

espace insécable f (plural espaces insécables)


trait d'union

trait d’ union (canonical masculine)
traits d’union (plural)


dactylique

Romanian: dactilic

Borrowed from Latin dactylicus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek δακτυλικός (daktulikós). By surface analysis, dactyle + -ique.

Un hexamètre dactylique.


acut

fr-adj

acut (feminine acute, masculine plural acuts, feminine plural acutes)

acute (feminine)
acuts (masculine plural)
acutes (feminine plural)

Borrowed from Latin acūtus. Doublet of aigu, an earlier loan, with the obsolete inherited form being eu.


asynartète

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσυνάρτητος (asunártētos).


signe dur

Calque of Russian твёрдый знак (tvjórdyj znak).

cal

твёрдый знак


signe mou

Calque of Russian мя́гкий знак (mjáxkij znak).

мя́гкий знак


esprit rude

Calque of Latin spiritus asper, itself a calque of Ancient Greek δασὺ πνεῦμα (dasù pneûma).


esprit doux

Calque of Latin spīritus lēnis, itself a calque of Ancient Greek ψιλὸν πνεῦμα (psilòn pneûma).

ψιλὸν πνεῦμα

(phonetics, typography) smooth breathing


Tintin

(fiction) a fictional reporter in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin


lupeux

From Latin lupus (whence French loup (“wolf”)) + -eux.

suf

whence French <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">loup</i> (“wolf”)

Ah bien, oui, dit l’autre, un bel oiseau ! C’est le lupeux I Ça commence par rire ; ça vous tire de votre chemin, ça vous emmène, et puis ça se fâche et ça vous noie dans les fondrières.

1869, George Sand, Promenades autour d'un village, page 224:

En Wallonie, une sorcière se changeait en souris pour pénétrer dans les armoires. Les lutins ou les personnages apparentés empruntent assez rarement la figure d’animaux sauvages : en Normandie, les lutins sous celle de loups cherchaient à entrer dans les cimetières. Dans le Centre, le lupeux qui attirait les voyageurs dans les fondrières avait une tête de loup et une voix humaine.

1906, Paul Sébillot, Le Folklore de France, page 57:

(folklore, regional) a malicious imp of boglands, trying to drown travelers, often with demonic and lycanthropic traits


appel de note

fr-noun

appel de note m (plural appels de notes)


retour à la ligne

retour à la ligne m (plural retours à la ligne)


point médian

(typography) interpunct, interpoint, middot


ligne de force

ligne de force f (plural lignes de force)


unité de lieu

(theater, literature) unity of place (the principle, in classical theater, that the entirety of a play should take place in only one setting)


unité de temps

unité de temps f (countable and uncountable, plural unités de temps)

(theater, literature, uncountable) unity of time (classical unity that states that the action of a play should take place over no more than 24 hours)


police d'écriture

police d’écriture f (plural polices d’écriture)

police d’ écriture (canonical feminine)
polices d’écriture (plural)


voyage dans le temps

voyage dans le temps m (plural voyages dans le temps)


cornières

(construction, printing) a long, L-shaped piece of steel or aluminum bent at 90°, steel angle


littérature comparée

comparative literature
comparative literature


hors-texte

Literally, “outside (of the) text”. See hors and texte.


unité d'action

(theater, literature) unity of action (the rule, in classical theater, according to which a play should have one action that it follows, with minimal subplots)


réalité parallèle

réalité parallèle f (plural réalités parallèles)

univers parallèle
univers parallèle#French

(science fiction) Synonym of univers parallèle


voiture volante

voiture volante m (plural voitures volantes)

(science fiction) flying car (vehicle which can function both as a road vehicle and as an aircraft)


pseudépigraphe

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ψευδεπίγραφος (pseudepígraphos, “(literally) (with) false superscription”).
By surface analysis, pseud- + épigraphe.

bor+

ψευδεπίγραφος


pseudépigraphe

fr-noun

pseudépigraphe m (plural pseudépigraphes)

bor+

ψευδεπίγραφος


chanson de geste

fr-noun

chanson de geste f (plural chansons de geste)

→ English: chanson de geste

→ Italian: canzone di gesta (calque)

→ Portuguese: canção de gesta (calque)

→ Spanish: cantar de gesta (calque)

chanson de geste
chanson de geste#English


Gargantua

(fiction) A giant with a very large appetite in François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel.


aéro-train

From aéro- + train. Attested in 1890 in Michel Verne's novella La Journée d'un journaliste américain en 2889.

(science fiction) Alternative spelling of aérotrain

In the Year 2889 (short story)
Michel Verne


aéro-car

From aéro- + car. Attested in 1890 in Michel Verne's novella La Journée d'un journaliste américain en 2889.


aéro-omnibus

From aéro- + omnibus. Attested in 1890 in Michel Verne's novella La Journée d'un journaliste américain en 2889.


Grecs du roi

Compound of Grecs (“Greeks”) + du (“of the”) + roi (“king”).


heroic fantasy

Unadapted borrowing from English heroic fantasy.


recto-verso

From recto (“the right page of a left to right reading language script”) and verso (“the left page of a left to right reading language script”).

Est-ce que le cours est en format recto-verso?

Is the course material in double-sided format?


recto-verso

On n’imprime pas les partitions de musique recto-verso.

One doesn't print music sheets as double-sided.

(printing) in double-sided, as double-sided


Abbreviation of in-dix-huit. Composed of English in & French dix-huit.

(printing, publishing) A page size formed from a sheet folded into eighteenths, creating thirty-six pages.

(printing, publishing) A book made in this size


Du Même Auteur
Les Troubadours : Leurs vies, leurs œuvres, leur influence
 Un volume in-18 broché (Librarie Armand Collin, Paris). influence

1930, Joseph Anglade, Grammaire élémentaire de l'ancien français, Armand Collin, published 1930, page prelims:

From the Same Author
The Troubadours: Their lives, their works, their influence
A paperback volume in octodecimo (Librarie Armand Collin, Paris).

(printing, publishing) Printed in this size.


in-dix-huit

Composed of English in & French dix-huit.


in-folio

(printing, publishing) A book size resulting from a sheet of paper folded into two leaves creating four pages.

(printing, publishing) A book made in this size.


in-folio

(printing, publishing) Said with reference to a book printed in this size.


Abbreviation of Latin in & cent vingt-huit.

(printing, publishing) A book size created by folding a sheet of paper in half seven times, creating 128 leaves & 256 pages.

(printing, publishing) A book made in this size; a miniature.


Abbreviation of Latin in & quatre-vingt-seize.

(printing, publishing) A book size created by folding a sheet of paper in half six times, creating 48 leaves & 96 pages.


in-vingt

(printing, publishing) A page size formed from a sheet folded into twentieths


Abbreviation of in-quarto. Composed of Latin in & quarto.

(printing, publishing) A page size formed from a sheet of paper folded twice into quarters, creating eight pages.


Abbreviation of in-octavo. Composed of Latin in & octavo.

(printing, publishing) A page size formed from a sheet of paper folded three times into eighths, creating sixteen pages.


in-seize

(printing, publishing) A page size formed from a sheet of paper folded four times into sixteenths, creating thirty-two pages.


in-seize

in-huit (in-8º, in-8.º, in-8vo, in 8vo, in-octavo


in-trente-deux

Composed of Latin in & French trente-deux.

(printing, publishing) A page size formed from a sheet of paper folded five times into thirty-seconds, creating sixty-four pages.


in-soixante-quatre

(printing, publishing) A page size formed from a sheet of paper folded six times into sixty-fourths, creating one hundred & twenty-eight pages.