ouvreur
French
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
ouvreur m (plural ouvreurs)
Etymology 2
ouvrer + -eur (found in Old French as ovrëor, ovreur, ouvreor), possibly corresponding to Latin operātōr, operātōrem, and therefore a doublet of the borrowing opérateur.
Noun
ouvreur m (plural ouvreurs)
- a worker in papermaking, charged with drawing out the paste from the vat and spreading it evenly to make a sheet
- a worker in glassmaking
- a worker who fashions textile materials and prepares them for weaving
Related terms
See also
Further reading
- “ouvreur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Categories:
- French terms suffixed with -eur
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French doublets