oreille
Finnish[edit]
Noun[edit]
oreille
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
oreille f (plural oreilles)
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- à l’oreille
- avoir les oreilles qui sifflent
- bouche à oreille
- boucle d’oreille
- chien hargneux a toujours l’oreille déchirée
- dormir sur ses deux oreilles
- dresser l’oreille
- dur d’oreille
- faire la sourde oreille
- les murs ont des oreilles
- l’entendre de cette oreille
- mettre la puce à l’oreille
- ne pas en croire ses oreilles
- n’écouter que d’une oreille
- oreille absolue
- oreille de crisse
- oreille de mer
- oreille d’ours
- oreille externe
- oreille interne
- oreille moyenne
- oreille relative
- oreiller
- oreillette
- rebattre les oreilles
- rentrer par une oreille et ressortir par l’autre
- sourire jusqu’aux oreilles
- tendre l’oreille
- tirer les oreilles
- tomber dans l’oreille d’un sourd
- ventre affamé n’a point d’oreilles
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Mauritian Creole: zorey
- Réunion Creole French: zoreilles, z'oreilles, zorey
- Saint Dominican Creole French: z'oreille
- Haitian Creole: zòrèy
- Seychellois Creole: zorey
- → Esperanto: orelo
Further reading[edit]
- “oreille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris.
Noun[edit]
oreille f (plural oreilles)
Descendants[edit]
- French: oreille (see there for further descendants)
Norman[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris (“ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws.
Noun[edit]
oreille f (plural oreilles)
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Latin ōricula, variant of auricula.
First attested circa 1050 in the Oxford manuscript of La Chanson de Roland.[1]
Noun[edit]
oreille oblique singular, f (oblique plural oreilles, nominative singular oreille, nominative plural oreilles)
Descendants[edit]
- Middle French: aureille (spelling influenced by Latin auricula), oreille
- French: oreille (see there for further descendants)
- Norman: oreille, orêle, ouothelle, oyêle
- Walloon: oraye
References[edit]
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “auricula”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 988
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