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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French, from Late Latin lucta, from Latin luctor (“to wrestle”). Compare Italian lotta, Spanish lucha and Romanian luptă.
Pronunciation
Noun
lutte f (plural luttes)
- (literally or figuratively) struggle, fight, battle
La lutte contre le capitalisme- The struggle against capitalism
1923, Marcel Proust, chapter 1, in La Prisonnière [The Prisoner] (À la recherche du temps perdu):Heureux ceux qui le comprennent assez tôt pour ne pas trop prolonger une lutte inutile, épuisante […]- Happy are they who understand in time not to prolong a useless, exhausting struggle
- (sports) wrestling
Derived terms
Verb
lutte
- inflection of lutter:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Participle
lutte
- definite singular of lutt
- plural of lutt
Verb
lutte
- past tense of luta and lute
Pali
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Adjective
lutte
- locative singular masculine/neuter, vocative singular feminine and accusative plural masculine of lutta, which is past passive participle of lumpati (“to break”)