propre
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
propre (comparative more propre, superlative most propre)
- Obsolete form of proper.
Anagrams[edit]
Danish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
propre
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French propre, borrowed from Latin proprius.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
propre (plural propres)
- clean
- une maison propre - a clean house
- house-trained
- (before a noun) own
- C'est ma propre maison - It's my own house
- (mathematics) eigen-
- valeur propre - eigenvalue
- (followed by the preposition à) proper to, specific to, particular to
- Synonym: spécifique
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “propre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French propre, borrowed from Latin proprius.
Adjective[edit]
propre m or f
Derived terms[edit]
- proprément (“cleanly”)
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
propre m (oblique and nominative feminine singular propre)
Descendants[edit]
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