membre

See also: membré

English

Noun

membre (plural membres)

1. Obsolete form of member.
   • 1559, An Elizabethan Guild of the City of Exeter, page #102:

     Thus the bodie beinge divided everie one membre having smale regarde of thother were at length brought to suche a feeble and extreme state that they awayted for nothinge but even the utter decaye and confusion of them selves wh indeed folowed, even so shall it be by us : for when everie singuler membre envieng the state of the bodie will of any singuler fantasie swerve from that unitie we are all conjoined in lett him awayte most assuredlie for destruction.

Anagrams

• 'member, member

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin membrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmem.bɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmem.bɾe]

Noun

membre m (plural membres)

1. member (one who belongs to a group)
2. member, limb
3. member (penis)

Derived terms

• membre viril

Further reading

• “membre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “membre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “membre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “membre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin membrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃bʁ/

• audio:

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Noun

membre m (plural membres)

1. member (of a group or organization)
2. limb, member
3. member, penis
   • 1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage

     Le duc de Blangis, cinquante ans, fait comme un satyre, doué d'un membre monstrueux et d'une force prodigieuse. On peut le regarder comme le réceptacle de tous les vices et de tous les crimes. Il a tué sa mère, sa sœur et trois de ses femmes.

     The Duke of Blangis, 50 years, built like a satyr, endowed with a monstrous member and a prodigious strength. One can regard him as a receptacle of all vices and all crimes. He killed his mother, his sister and three of his wives.

Further reading

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

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Middle French

Noun

membre m (plural membres)

1. limb (arm or leg)

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Norman

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French membre, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin membrum (“limb, body part”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”).

Noun

membre m (plural membres)

1. (Jersey) member

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Occitan

Etymology

From Latin membrum.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

membre m (plural membres)

1. member (one who officially belongs to a group)