polaire

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French polaire, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  polaris (“of or pertaining to poles”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin polus (“pole or end of an axis”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos, “sky, pivot or axis of a sphere”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *kwolo- (“turn around”), from *kwel- (“to move around, to roll or wheel”).

Adjective

polaire (plural polaires)

1. polar

Derived terms

• cercle polaire
• ours polaire
• renard polaire

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ploiera