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French
Etymology
From the plural of Old French entraille, from Early Medieval Latin intrālia (attested in the Reichenau Glossary), from Latin interanea, from interaneus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.
Pronunciation
Noun
entrailles f pl (plural only)
- entrails, bowels, guts
- (literary) womb
- le fruit de vos entrailles est béni ― blessed is the fruit of thy womb
- (figuratively) bowels, depths
- dans les entrailles de la Terre ― down in the bowels of the Earth
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Old French
Noun
entrailles f
- oblique/nominative plural of entraille