souffrance

French

Etymology

souffrir +‎ -ance, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin sufferentia (“toleration”), from the verb sufferre (“to tolerate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.fʁɑ̃s/

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• Homophone: souffrances
• Hyphenation: sou‧ffrance

Noun

souffrance f (plural souffrances)

1. sufferance, pain

Derived terms

• en souffrance

Further reading

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