suppositoire
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French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
suppositoire m (plural suppositoires)
Further reading[edit]
- “suppositoire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- suppositorie (Anglo-Norman)
- suppositoyre (Anglo-Norman)
Etymology[edit]
Attested at least as early as 1377 in Bernard de Gordon's Fleur de lys en medecine. Borrowed from Latin suppositorium.
Noun[edit]
suppositoire oblique singular, m (oblique plural suppositoires, nominative singular suppositoires, nominative plural suppositoire)