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flûte

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See also: flute and flûté

French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut. The contraction of the Old French hiatus created a long vowel in Middle French, which is indicated by the modern circumflex.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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flûte f (plural flûtes)

  1. flute (woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger)
    flûte à bec ― recorder
    flûte de Pan ― panpipes, pan flute
    flûte traversière ― Western concert flute
  2. flute (glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne)
    flûte à champagne ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  3. Originally meaning fluyt, by the late 17th century used for any large cargo vessel[1]

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → Italian: flute, flûte
  • → Luxembourgish: Flütt
  • → Turkish: flüt
  • → Walloon: flûte
  • → Volapük: flut (possibly)

Interjection

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flûte

  1. blow! drat! (mildly impolite interjection)
    Synonyms: zut, saperlipopette
    • 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, pages 85–86:
      Devant toi, une fille sourit. Tu l'aimes. Elle ne le saura jamais. Flûte. C'était une belle minute.
      In front of you, a girl smiles. You love her. She'll never know. Damn. It was a beautiful moment.

References

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  1. ^ Winfield, Rif; Roberts, Stephen S. (2017), French warships in the age of sail 1626-1786: design, construction, careers and fates, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Seaforth Publishing, →ISBN, page 46

Further reading

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Italian

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Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French flûte, from Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut. Doublet of flauto.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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flûte m or (in specialist contexts) f (invariable)[3]

  1. flute (type of glass)
    Synonyms: flute, fluttino

References

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  1. ^ flute in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  2. ^ flûte in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  3. ^ D'Achille, Paolo (19 October 2015), “Beviamo lo spumante nel flûte o nella flûte? [Do we drink from the flute (masculine) or in the flute (feminine)?]”, in Accademia della Crusca, editor, Consulenza linguistica [Linguistic consultancy]‎[1] (in Italian), Accademia della Crusca, published 2015, archived from the original on 29 January 2018

Walloon

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French flûte, from Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flauto.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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flûte f (plural flûtes)

  1. flute (musical instrument)

Derived terms

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