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)


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.


arc

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


rampant

fr-adj

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

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


hors-d'œuvre

(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)


fantasy

fantasys (plural)
fantasie (alternative)

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


dit

Le Dit du Genji

(historical, literature) a story from the mediæval period; a tale


thriller

(film, literature) thriller (a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction)


-ide

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

Énée (“Aeneas”) + -ide → Énéide (“Aeneid”)


bande dessinée

fr-noun

bande dessinée f (plural bandes dessinées)


couplet

→ Dutch: couplet

→ English: couplet

→ German: Couplet

→ Spanish: cuplé

→ Russian: купле́т (kuplét)


méchant

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.


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).


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.


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.


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).


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.


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”).


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)


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)


stryge

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


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.


lyrique

fr-noun

lyrique m or f by sense (plural lyriques)


césure

césure trihémimère, césure penthémimère

(poetry) caesura (a pause or interruption)


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)


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

aérotrains (plural)
aéro-train (alternative)

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”).


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


allosexuel

fr-adj

allosexuel (feminine allosexuelle, masculine plural allosexuels, feminine plural allosexuelles)

allosexuelle (feminine)
allosexuels (masculine plural)
allosexuelles (feminine plural)

(poetry) rhymed using words with different grammatical genders


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.


pétrarquisme

fr-noun

pétrarquisme m (countable and uncountable, plural pétrarquismes)

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


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)


dactylique

Romanian: dactilic

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

Un hexamètre dactylique.


asynartète

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσυνάρτητος (asunártētos).


Tintin

The origin of the name "Tintin" is not known. While the series' creator, Hergé, never explained the reason for the name, it is asserted in The Pocket Essential Tintin (Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier, 2002) that the name is from an earlier pulp fiction novel called Les Voyages Aeriens D'Un Petit Parisien A Travers le Monde. Various other theories have also been supposited.

(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


ligne de force

fr-noun

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)


voyage dans le temps

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


littérature comparée

comparative literature
comparative literature


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)


brouzouf

Coined as the in-game currency of the 2011 video game E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy.


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.


heroic fantasy

Unadapted borrowing from English heroic fantasy.


mimèse

mimèses (plural)
mimesis (alternative)
mimèsis (alternative)
mimésis (alternative)

From Ancient Greek μῑ́μησις (mī́mēsis, “imitation”), from μιμεῖσθαι (mimeîsthai, “to imitate”), from μῖμος (mîmos, “a mime”).

uder

Maniérisme de l’esprit qui exige en effet, en tant que mimèse de la pensée, beaucoup de minutie et d’ingéniosité...

1995, René Lapierre, Ecrire l'Amérique, Les Herbes Rouges, page 110:

A mannerism of mind that truly requires, as a mimesis of thought, an abundance of fastidiousness and ingenuity...

(art, drama, literature) the act or philosophy of representing reality in artistic works; mimesis