oreille

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Finnish

Noun

oreille

  1. allative plural of ori

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French oreille, from Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws. Cognate with Catalan and Galician orella; Portuguese orelha; Italian orecchio; Occitan aurelha; Romanian ureche; and Spanish oreja. Compare zoreille, zorey.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔ.ʁɛj/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛj

Noun

oreille f (plural oreilles)

  1. ear

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Middle French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris.

Noun

oreille f (plural oreilles)

  1. ear

Descendants

  • French: oreille (see there for further descendants)

Norman

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris (“ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws.

Noun

oreille f (plural oreilles)

  1. (Guernsey, anatomy) ear
    • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, page 542:
      Chu qu' nou n'a jamais veu, et jamais ne verra,
      Ch'est le nic d'une souaris dans l'oreille d'un cat.
      One thing you have never seen and will never see, a mouse's nest in a cat's ear.

Old French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ōricula, variant of auricula.

First attested circa 1050 in the Oxford manuscript of La Chanson de Roland.

Noun

oreille oblique singular, f (oblique plural oreilles, nominative singular oreille, nominative plural oreilles)

  1. ear

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “auricula”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 988
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