humidité
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin humiditātem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
humidité f (plural humidités)
Further reading[edit]
- “humidité”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Attested at least as early as 1377, borrowed from Latin humiditās.
Noun[edit]
humidité oblique singular, f (oblique plural humiditez, nominative singular humidité, nominative plural humiditez)
- moistness; dampness; humidity
- 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 186 of this essay:
- Sextement, tu dois entendre que la cause prochaine de le lepre, c’est humidité causee de humeur melancolique qui retient proprieté et disposicion de humeur qui habunde.
- Sixthly, you must understand that the next cause of leprosy is moistness caused by melancholic humor [bodily fluids] that retains the property and disposition of excess humor
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