huître

See also: huitre

French

Alternative forms

• huitre (1990 spelling reform)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French uistre, oistre, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ostrea, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon). The h is unetymological (no h in the Latin ostrea), but it used to disambiguate the pronunciation in the times when u and v were variants of the same letter, cf. huit, huile.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɥitʁ/

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• Rhymes: -itʁ
• IPA^(key): /zwit/
• Homophones: huitre, huitres, huîtres

Noun

huître f (plural huîtres)

1. oyster

Further reading

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