équateur
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French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- æquateur (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin aequātōrem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
équateur m (plural équateurs)
- equator (imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemisphere)
- Coordinate term: tropique
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “équateur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.