lutte

See also: lutté

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Late Latin lucta, from Latin luctor (“I wrestle”). Compare Italian lotta, Spanish lucha and Romanian luptă.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lyt/

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• IPA^(key): /lʏt/

Noun

lutte f (plural luttes)

1. (literally or figuratively) struggle, fight, battle

   La lutte contre le capitalisme

   The struggle against capitalism

   • 1923, Marcel Proust, chapter 1, in La Prisonnière [The Prisoner] (À la recherche du temps perdu)‎^[1]:

     Heureux ceux qui le comprennent assez tôt pour ne pas trop prolonger une lutte inutile, épuisante […]

     Happy are they who understand in time not to prolong a useless, exhausting struggle […]

2. (sports) wrestling

Derived terms

• de haute lutte
• lutte des classes

Verb

lutte

1. inflection of lutter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Related terms

• en lutte
• lutte d’intérêts
• lutter
• lutteur

See also

• bataille f

Further reading

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

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Participle

lutte

1. definite singular of lutt
2. plural of lutt

Verb

lutte

1. past tense of luta and lute