jour

French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʒuʁ/

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Etymology

From Latin diurnum, neuter of the adjective diurnus (“of the day”). Cognate with diēs (“day”).

Noun

jour m. (plural jours)

1. day
   • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter III:

     L’aube du jour commençait à poindre quand don Quichotte sortit de l’hôtellerie, si content, si glorieux, si plein de ravissement de se voir armé chevalier, que sa joie en faisait tressaillir jusqu’aux sangles de son cheval.

     The dawn of the day was beginning to break when Don Quixote left the inn, so content, so glorious, so full of ravishment of seeing himself armed a knight, that his joy made him tremble all the way to the girths of his horse.

2. daylight, light
3. aperture

Related terms

• journée

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• jorn (Classical)

Noun

jour m. (plural jours)

1. (Mistralian) day