morne

• (US) IPA^(key): /moɹn/,
• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɔːn/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /mɔːɹn/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /mɔːn/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
• Homophones: morn; mourn, mourne (horse–hoarse merger)

From Old French morne, morné, etc.

morne (plural mornes)

1. The blunt head of a jousting-lance.
2. A small, rounded hill.

morne (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Alternative form of morné

morne (countable and uncountable, plural mornes)

1. Obsolete spelling of morn.

morne (countable and uncountable, plural mornes)

1. Obsolete spelling of mourn.

morne (third-person singular simple present mornes, present participle morning, simple past and past participle morned)

1. Obsolete spelling of mourn.

• Menor, enorm, meron, moner, more'n

Inherited from Middle French morne, from Old French morne, murne, (compare Old French morner (“to mourn”)), from Frankish *murn, from Proto-Germanic *murnaz. Cognate with English mourn, Old Norse morna (“to pine away”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌰𐌽 (maurnan).

• IPA^(key): /mɔʁn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʁn

morne (plural mornes)

1. gloomy, glum, dismal, dreary
   • 1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act 2, scene 2:

     Dirai-je au Dictateur dont l’ordre ici m’envoie / Que vous le recevez avec si peu de joie ? / Ce morne et froid accueil me surprend à mon tour.

     Shall I tell the Dictator whose order sends me here / That you received it with so little joy? / This glum and cold welcome surprises me too.

• morné

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

• norme, renom