poudre
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French poudre, from Latin pulverem, accusative of pulvis (or possibly through a Vulgar Latin form *pŭlvĕra), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“dust; flour”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
poudre f (plural poudres)
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
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Descendants[edit]
All are borrowed.
- Azerbaijani: pudra
- Belarusian: пудра (pudra)
- Faroese: putur
- German: Puder
- Greek: πούδρα (poúdra)
- Hungarian: púder
- Macedonian: пудра (pudra)
- Norwegian: pudder
- Persian: پودر (pudr)
- Polish: puder
- Romanian: pudră
- Russian: пудра (pudra)
- Serbo-Croatian: puder / пудер
- Slovene: puder
- Spanish: puder
- Swedish: puder
- → Finnish: puuteri
- Turkish: pudra
- Ukrainian: пудра (pudra)
- Yiddish: פּודער (puder)
Further reading[edit]
- “poudre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old French poudre, from Latin pulverem, accusative of pulvis.
Alternative forms[edit]
- powder, pouder, powdre, pouldre, powdir, powdyr, pudre, poudur, poweder, pouþer, powþer, powther, powdur
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
poudre (plural poudres)
- powder (a collection of particles):
- Dust; powder as a waste products or generated from the remains of something.
- Ashes; the matter produced by combustion.
- Earth, dirt; the particles that compose soil.
- Various powders as used in medicine or alchemy.
- Powders used for culinary purposes; spices.
- (rare) Gunpowder; black powder.
- The results of the decomposition of one's corpse.
- (rare) A speckling; an stippled pattern.
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “pǒudre, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
poudre
- Alternative form of poudren
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin pulverem, accusative of pulvis. Compare Old Occitan poldra, polvera.
Noun[edit]
poudre f (oblique plural poudres, nominative singular poudre, nominative plural poudres)
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Descendants[edit]
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- French terms derived from Old French
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- French terms derived from Latin
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- French 1-syllable words
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- enm:Alchemy
- enm:Death
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- enm:Medicine
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- Old French terms inherited from Latin
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