souris

See also: Souris

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.ʁi/

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French souris, from Old French soris, soriz, from Vulgar Latin *sōrīcem, alteration of the Classical Latin sōricem (“shrew”).

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

Noun

souris f (invariable)

1. mouse (rodent)
2. (computing) computer mouse
3. a part of a leg of lamb
4. (colloquial) young woman, girlfriend

Derived terms

• absent le chat, les souris dansent
• chauve-souris
• coq-souris
• jeu du chat et de la souris
• jouer au chat et à la souris
• le chat parti, les souris dansent
• petite souris
• queue-de-souris
• souriceau
• souricier
• souricière
• souris chaude

Descendants

• Michif: soorii

See also

• rat
• musaraigne

Etymology 2

From Middle French sourris, from Old French sorris, from Latin subrīsus.

Noun

souris m (invariable)

1. (archaic, literary) a smile

   Synonym: sourire

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

souris

1. inflection of sourire:
   1. first/second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. first/second-person singular past historic

Further reading

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