épais
Appearance
See also: êpais
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French espés, from Old French espés, from Latin spissus, from Proto-Indo-European *spidtos.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /e.pɛ/
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- Hyphenation: é‧pais
Adjective
[edit]épais (feminine épaisse, masculine plural épais, feminine plural épaisses)
- thick
- Synonym: gros
- un livre épais ― a thick book
- des cheveux épais ― thick hair
- une épaisse fumée ― a thick smoke
- (literary or Quebec, informal) stupid, thick
- 1734, Montesquieu, Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence:
- Les Béotiens, les plus épais de tous les Grecs, prenaient le moins de part qu’ils pouvaient aux affaires générales.
- The Boeotians, the dullest of all the Greeks, took the least part they could in general affairs.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Haitian Creole: epè
Adverb
[edit]épais
Further reading
[edit]- “épais”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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