œuf
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See also: oeuf
French
[edit]Etymology
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Inherited from Middle French œuf, from Old French oef, from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum. Compare Occitan uòu.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /œf/
Audio (France); “un œuf”: (file) Audio (Switzerland (Valais)): (file) Audio (France (Toulouse)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France): (file) Audio (France (Grenoble)): (file) Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Hérault)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Massy)): (file) - Rhymes: -œf
Noun
[edit]œuf m (plural œufs)
- egg
- (biology) egg; ovum
- (transgender) egg
- (skiing) gondola lift
Derived terms
[edit]- aller se faire cuire un œuf
- avoir un œuf à peler
- crâne d'œuf
- cuillère à œuf
- étouffer dans l'œuf
- faire l'œuf
- feuh (Verlan)
- jaune d'œuf
- marcher sur des œufs
- mettre tous ses œufs dans le même panier
- œuf à la coque
- œuf de Pâques
- œuf miroir
- œuf sur le plat
- œuf tourné
- œufs brouillés
- œufs dans l'eau
- on ne fait pas d'omelette sans casser des œufs
- plein comme un œuf
- poule aux œufs d'or
- qui vole un œuf vole un bœuf
- tuer dans l'œuf
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- ⇒ Haitian Creole: ze
- ⇒ Mauritian Creole: dizef
- ⇒ Réunion Creole French: zèf
- → English: oeuf
- → Limburgish: äöf
Further reading
[edit]- “œuf”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French oef.
Noun
[edit]œuf m (plural œufs)
Descendants
[edit]- French: œuf
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- French terms derived from Classical Latin
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- French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- French terms derived from Proto-Italic
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- French terms inherited from Classical Latin
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French terms inherited from Middle French
- French terms inherited from Proto-Italic
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- French 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:French/œf
- Rhymes:French/œf/1 syllable
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Biology
- fr:Transgender
- fr:Skiing
- fr:Foods
- fr:Sex
- Middle French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Middle French terms inherited from Classical Latin
- Middle French terms derived from Old French
- Middle French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Middle French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂ōwyóm
- Middle French terms derived from Classical Latin
- Middle French terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Middle French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Middle French terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Middle French terms inherited from Old French
- Middle French terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French nouns
- Middle French masculine nouns
- Middle French countable nouns
