mille-pieds

French

Alternative forms

• millepied (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Bahuvrīhi compound of mille +‎ pieds, literally “thousand-feet”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mil.pje/

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• Hyphenation: mille-pieds

Noun

mille-pieds m (invariable) (archaic)

2. (zoology) synonym of mille-pattes (“millipede”) (elongated arthropods)

Further reading

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