déserteur

See also: Deserteur

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin desertor. By surface analysis, déserter +‎ -eur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.zɛʁ.tœʁ/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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Noun

déserteur m (plural déserteurs, feminine déserteuse)

1. (chiefly military) deserter (person who leaves the military without permission)

   Synonym: fuyard

   Near-synonym: transfuge

Related terms

• désertion

Descendants

• Estonian: desertöör
• Finnish: desertööri (obsolete)
• Dutch: deserteur

Further reading

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