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French
Etymology
Semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin sūdārium (“handkerchief; napkin; shroud”), from sūdāre (“to sweat”) (ancestor of French suer). (If the Latin noun had been inherited by French, the ending would have regularly developed to -ier instead of -aire). By surface analysis, suer + -aire.
Pronunciation
Noun
suaire m (plural suaires)
- shroud
- Synonym: linceul
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