laboureur

French

Etymology

Etymology tree

French labourer

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -(ā)tōrem

Old French -or

Middle French -eur

French -eur

French laboureur

From labourer +‎ -eur. Cf. also Medieval Latin laborator, and the Old French loreür.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.bu.ʁœʁ/

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Noun

laboureur m (plural laboureurs, feminine laboureuse)

1. ploughman; plowman
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Il suivait les laboureurs, et chassait, à coups de motte de terre, les corbeaux qui s'envolaient.

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Derived terms

• déjeuner de laboureur

Further reading

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