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vapeur

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /va.pœʁ/
  • Audio; la vapeur:(file)
  • Audio (France (Somain)):(file)

Etymology 1

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    Inherited from Middle French vapeur, from Old French vapour, vapor, borrowed from Latin vapor m.

    Noun

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    vapeur f (plural vapeurs)

    1. steam
    2. vapour
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    Etymology 2

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      Ellipsis of bateau à vapeur, from vapeur (steam, vapor).

      Noun

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      vapeur m (plural vapeurs)

      1. steamship
      Descendants
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      • Romanian: vapor

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      Old French

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      Noun

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      vapeur oblique singularf (oblique plural vapeurs, nominative singular vapeur, nominative plural vapeurs)

      1. vapor
        • 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 155 of this essay:
          elle se eschauffe et amoistit pour les vapeurs
          It heats up and becomes moist by the vapors

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