orage
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French orage m, from Vulgar Latin *aurāticum m, derived from Latin aura f (“wind, breeze”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]orage m (plural orages)
- thunderstorm
- 2022 June 10, “La météo du dimanche 12 juin : un temps ensoleillé mais lourd, des risques d'orage”, in Figaro:
- Quelques orages traverseront les régions du sud-ouest à l’est de la France.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- storm, upset
- (literary) turmoil, tumult
- a device on an organ, which produces a "thunder" effect, usually by playing a large cluster chord on the pedalboard
- 2016, Emmanuel Reibel, Nature et Musique, Fayard (publ.).
- Les orages sont alors très prisés pour mettre en valeur les nouvelles possibilités techniques des instruments : […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2016, Emmanuel Reibel, Nature et Musique, Fayard (publ.).
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Romanian: oraj n
References
[edit]- orage on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Further reading
[edit]- “orage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Vulgar Latin *aurāticum m, derived from Latin aura f (“wind, breeze”). By surface analysis, ore + -age.
Noun
[edit]orage oblique singular, m (oblique plural orages, nominative singular orages, nominative plural orage)
Synonyms
[edit]Descendants
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