truie

French

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin troia, troja, of uncertain origin, but possibly from Latin (porcum de) Troia (“(hog of) Troy”), after the Trojan horse, or alternatively from a Gaulish root *trogja, or possibly simply of imitative origin, from the sound of a pig's grunt. Compare Occitan truèja, Italian troia, Catalan truja, Walloon troye.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɥi/

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Noun

truie f (plural truies)

1. sow (female pig)
2. (derogatory) unclean woman

Hypernyms

• cochon
• porc
• pourceau

Coordinate terms

• verrat (boar)

Further reading

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