haleine
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Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French aleine, deverbal from alener (“to breathe”), from Medieval Latin anhēlō by metathesis. The h appeared around the 16th century under the influence of Latin hālō (“to blow”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (mute h) IPA(key): /a.lɛn/
audio (file) Audio (Paris) (file) - Homophones: alène, alènes, alêne, alênes, allen, Allen, allène, allènes, haleines, halène, halènent, halènes
- Rhymes: -ɛn
Noun[edit]
haleine f (plural haleines)
- breath
- 1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act 4, scene 2:
- Tout hors d’haleine il prend pourtant sa place
- All out of breath he took nonetheless his place
- breathing, respiration
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Further reading[edit]
- “haleine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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