créature
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin creatūra (like English creature), from creo, creare (“to create”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]créature f (plural créatures)
- a creature, a living being, especially seen as the work of the divine Creator
- anything created or devised by a person
- a person who is at the mercy of another, notably in whose gift his position is
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
Further reading
[edit]- “créature”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.