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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French cuivre, quivre, queivre, coivre, from Latin Cyprium, cupreum (aes) (compare cuprum) from Ancient Greek Κῠ́προς (Kúpros, “Cyprus”). It was not uncommon for Greek short ῠ (pronounced in Classical Attic as /y/) to be adapted as Latin short ŭ. This would normally yield Proto-Western-Romance *, but a following palatal sound apparently could cause * to be raised to * (or alternatively, the original close quality of Latin short ŭ to be retained) early enough for the sound change of Proto-Western-Romance * > Old French to apply, yielding the now standard form with ⟨ui⟩ (Old French , modern French ). Compare truite from Late Latin tructa, puits from Latin puteus, and huis from Latin ōstium.[1] (But ⟨oi⟩ is seen in forms such as rasoir < rasōrium). Compare the development of ēbrius to French ivre (as opposed to *oivre). A competing explanation supposes a sporadic lowering of Latin ŭ to ŏ (yielding *coprium[2]) or of Western Romance *o to *ɔ, since *ɔ was regularly diphthongized to *uɔ before a palatal and the resulting triphthong *uɔi was simplified to Old French ui (compare corium > cuir).
Pronunciation
Noun
cuivre m (countable and uncountable, plural cuivres)
- copper
- Le vert-de-gris est la rouille du cuivre. ― Verdigris is copper rust.
- (music) brass
- Coordinate term: bois
- (art) copperplate
Derived terms
Verb
cuivre
- inflection of cuivrer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
References
- ^ Recasens, Daniel (2023) Consonant-induced sound changes in stressed vowels in Romance:Assimilatory, dissimilatory and diphthongization processes, De Gruyter, page 353
- ^ Pope, Mildred Katharine (1952) From Latin to French, with Especial Consideration of Anglo-Norman, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 131
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