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French
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Etymology 1
Inherited from Middle French vapeur, from Old French vapour, vapor, borrowed from Latin vapor m.
Noun
vapeur f (plural vapeurs)
- steam
- vapour
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Etymology 2
Ellipsis of bateau à vapeur, from vapeur (“steam, vapor”).
Noun
vapeur m (plural vapeurs)
- steamship
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Old French
Noun
vapeur oblique singular, f (oblique plural vapeurs, nominative singular vapeur, nominative plural vapeurs)
- vapor
1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 155 of this essay:elle se eschauffe et amoistit pour les vapeurs- It heats up and becomes moist by the vapors
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (vapeur, supplement)