salamandre
French
Pronunciation
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Noun
salamandre f (plural salamandres)
- salamander (amphibian)
Synonyms
- (Louisiana, Cajun French) chien de terre f
Further reading
- “salamandre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Noun
salamandre f
- plural of salamandra
Old French
Noun
salamandre oblique singular, f (oblique plural salamandres, nominative singular salamandre, nominative plural salamandres)
- salamander (amphibian)
- circa 1120, Philippe de Taon, Bestiaire, line 660:
- Salamandre est dit, si cum truvum escrit,
- It is called salamander, which is how we find it written