écrevisse
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French crevice, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *krebitja (“crayfish”), diminutive of Old (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *krebit (“crab”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (“crab, cancer”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *grebʰ-, *gerebʰ- (“to scratch, crawl”).
Pronunciation
Noun
écrevisse f (plural écrevisses)
Synonyms
- (dated) cancre
Further reading
- “écrevisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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