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

• IPA^(key): /e.kʁə.vis/

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Noun

écrevisse f (plural écrevisses)

1. crayfish, crawfish

Synonyms

• (dated) cancre

Further reading

• “écrevisse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• éviscères