flûte

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See also: flute and flûté

French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut. The contraction of the Old French hiatus created a long vowel in Middle French, which is indicated by the modern circumflex.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /flyt/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

flûte f (plural flûtes)

  1. (music) flute (musical instrument)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Italian: flute, flûte
  • → Luxembourgish: Flütt
  • → Walloon: flûte
  • → Volapük: flut (possibly)

Interjection

flûte

  1. blow!, drat! (mildly impolite interjection)
    Synonym: zut
    • 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, pages 85–86:
      Devant toi, une fille sourit. Tu l’aimes. Elle ne le saura jamais. Flûte. C’était une belle minute.
      In front of you, a girl smiles. You love her. She'll never know. Damn. It was a beautiful moment.

Further reading

Italian

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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French flûte, from Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut. Doublet of flauto.

Pronunciation

Noun

flûte m or (in specialist contexts) f (invariable)[3]

  1. flute (type of glass)
    Synonyms: flute, fluttino

References

  1. ^ flute in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  2. ^ flûte in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  3. ^ D'Achille, Paolo (2015 October 19) “Beviamo lo spumante nel flûte o nella flûte? [Do we drink from the flute (masculine) or in the flute (feminine)?]”, in Accademia della Crusca, editor, Consulenza linguistica [Linguistic consultancy]‎ (in Italian), Accademia della Crusca, published 2015, archived from the original on 29 January 2018

Walloon

Etymology

Borrowed from French flûte, from Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flauto.

Pronunciation

Noun

flûte f (plural flûtes)

  1. flute (musical instrument)

Derived terms

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