abateure

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Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

abatre +‎ -eure.

Noun

abateure oblique singularf (oblique plural abateures, nominative singular abateure, nominative plural abateures)

  1. slaughter (act of mass killing)

Descendants

  • English: abature
  • Middle French: abatture

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (abateure, supplement)