poupée

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French poupée, from Old French poupee, popede (cf. also Medieval Latin *pupāta), or Vulgar Latin *puppa (with the French suffix -ée later added), ultimately from Latin pūpa (“girl; doll, puppet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu.pe/

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Noun

poupée f (plural poupées)

1. doll (object)
2. (slang) A girl or woman.

Derived terms

• jardin de poupée
• poupard
• poupée de chiffon
• poupée gonflable
• poupée katchina
• poupée russe
• poupée vaudou
• poupin
• poupon

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: pope
• → Vietnamese: búp bê

Paronyms

• Pompée
• Poppée

Further reading

• “poupee”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “poupée”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
• “poupee” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “poupée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012