étrier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French étrier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɪ.tɹi.jeɪ/

Noun

étrier (plural étriers)

1. (climbing) A mountaineer's stirrup.

Anagrams

• Terrie, reiter, retier, retire

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French estrier, from Old French estrief, estreu (“a ring hanging on each side of the saddle supporting a rider's foot”), from Frankish *streup (“buckle, stirrup”), perhaps for Frankish *stigareip (“stirrup”). Compare Old High German stegareif (“stirrup”), Middle Dutch stegerep (“stirrup”), Old English stīrāp, stiġrāp (“stirrup”), Old Norse stigreip (“stirrup”). See also étrivière. More at stirrup.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.tʁi.je/

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Noun

étrier m (plural étriers)

1. (equestrianism) stirrup
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Les harnais de voiture étaient dressés dans le milieu sur deux colonnes tournantes, et les mors, les fouets, les étriers, les gourmettes rangés en ligne tout le long de la muraille.

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2. (anatomy) stirrup bone, stapes
3. (climbing) stirrup, étrier (UK)
4. caliper (part of a brake)

Derived terms

• à franc étrier
• boire le vin de l'étrier
• coup de l'étrier
• mettre le pied à l’étrier

Related terms

• étrivière

Descendants

• → English: étrier
• → Romanian: etrier

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• étirer
• itérer
• retire, retiré