alcool

Borrowed from French alcool (“alcohol”). Doublet of alcohol and kohl.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæl.kuːl/

alcool (uncountable)

1. (Canada) grain alcohol, everclear

• calloo

• alcohol (obsolete)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin alcohol, from Arabic اَلْكُحْل (al-kuḥl, “kohl”).

• IPA^(key): /al.kɔl/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔl

alcool m (plural alcools)

1. alcohol, especially domestic, medical, methylated spirits
2. spirits, hard liquor (strong alcoholic beverage, excludes wine, cider, beer)
   • 1951, Georges Simenon, Maigret en meublé:

     Il n’y a jamais une goutte d’alcool, ni même de vin dans la maison.

     There is never a drop of alcohol, not even (one of) wine in the house.

• alcoolique
• alcoolisé
• alcoolisme
• alcoologie
• alcoologue
• alcool de bois (wood alcohol)
• avoir l’alcool triste
• tenir l’alcool

• “alcool”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.kol/, (traditional, careful style) /ˈal.ko.ol/^[1]
• Rhymes: -alkol, (traditional, careful style) -alkool
• Hyphenation: (traditional, careful style) àl‧co‧ol

alcool m (invariable)

1. Alternative form of alcol; alcohol

• alloco, allocò

Borrowed from French alcool.

alcool m (plural alcools)

1. (Jersey) alcohol

• alcoolisme (“alcoholism”)

• alcohol — obsolete

Borrowed from French alcool, from Latin alcohol, from Arabic اَلْكُحْل (al-kuḥl, “kohl”).

• IPA^(key): ,

• Audio:

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alcool n (plural alcooluri)

1. alcohol (intoxicating beverage)
2. alcohol (chemical compound containing ethanol)

• alcoolic
• alcoolism
• alcooliza