entrailles

French

Etymology

From the plural of Old French entraille, from Vulgar Latin *intralia, from Latin interanea, from interaneus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tʁaj/

• Audio:

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Noun

entrailles f pl (plural only)

1. entrails, bowels, guts
2. (literary) womb

   le fruit de vos entrailles est béni - blessed is the fruit of thy womb

3. (figuratively) bowels, depths

   dans les entrailles de la Terre - down in the bowels of the Earth

See also

• boyaux

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• réinstalle, réinstallé

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Old French

Noun

entrailles f

1. oblique/nominative plural of entraille