digue

See also: digué

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French. See dike.

Noun

digue (plural digues)

1. (obsolete) A bank; a dike.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “digue”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• guide, iudge

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French digue, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French dike, diic, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch dijc (compare modern Dutch dijk), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Dutch diic, dīc, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *dīkaz (“pool”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, stab, pierce, dig”). More at dig, dike, ditch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diɡ/

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Noun

digue f (plural digues)

1. seawall, dyke, breakwater

Derived terms

• endiguer

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• guide, guidé