suaire

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

• IPA^(key): /sɥɛʁ/

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Noun

suaire m (plural suaires)

1. shroud

   Synonym: linceul

Further reading

• “suaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• suerai, userai