vapeur
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Inherited from Middle French vapeur, from Old French vapour, vapor, borrowed from Latin vapor m.
Noun[edit]
vapeur f (plural vapeurs)
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Etymology 2[edit]
Ellipsis of bateau à vapeur, from vapeur (“steam, vapor”).
Noun[edit]
vapeur m (plural vapeurs)
Descendants[edit]
- → Romanian: vapor
Further reading[edit]
- “vapeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Old French[edit]
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Noun[edit]
vapeur oblique singular, f (oblique plural vapeurs, nominative singular vapeur, nominative plural vapeurs)
- vapor
- 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 155 of this essay:
- elle se eschauffe et amoistit pour les vapeurs
- It heats up and becomes moist by the vapors
References[edit]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (vapeur, supplement)
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