oncle

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Catalan

Alternative forms

onclo

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *aunclus, from Latin avunculus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
IPA^(key): (Valencian)
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Noun

oncle m (plural oncles)

uncle

Derived terms

oncle valencià

Related terms

conco

See also

tio

References

“oncle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“oncle”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
“oncle” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“oncle” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French oncle, from Old French oncle, from Vulgar Latin (av)unclus, from Latin avunculus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔ̃kl/
Audio (file)
Homophone: oncles

Noun

oncle m (plural oncles)

uncle
Mon père et mon oncle sont jumeaux.
My father and my uncle are twins.

Derived terms

Related terms

avunculaire

Descendants

→ German: Onkel
- → Danish: onkel
- → Latvian: onkulis
→ Dutch: nonkel
→ Esperanto: onklo
- → Ido: onklo
→ Norwegian Bokmål: onkel
→ Norwegian:
Bokmål: onkel

Nynorsk: onkel
→ Yiddish: אָנקל (onkl)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

clone, cloné, leçon

Interlingua

Noun

oncle (plural oncles)

uncle

Middle English

Noun

oncle

Alternative form of uncle

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French oncle, from Vulgar Latin *(av)unclus, from Latin avunculus.

Noun

oncle m (plural oncles)

uncle

Descendants

French: oncle (see there for further descendants)

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan , from Vulgar Latin (av)unclus, from Latin avunculus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

oncle m (plural oncles)

uncle

Old French

Alternative forms

uncle (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *aunclum, from Latin avunculus.

Noun

oncle oblique singular, m (oblique plural oncles, nominative singular oncles, nominative plural oncle)

uncle

Descendants

Middle French: oncle
- French: oncle (see there for further descendants)
→ Middle English: uncle
- English: uncle (see there for further descendants)

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