lutte
See also: lutté
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French, from Late Latin lucta, from Latin luctor (“to wrestle”). Compare Italian lotta, Spanish lucha and Romanian luptă.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlutte f (plural luttes)
- (literally or figuratively) struggle, fight, battle
- La lutte contre le capitalisme
- The struggle against capitalism
- 1923, Marcel Proust, chapter 1, in La Prisonnière [The Prisoner] (À la recherche du temps perdu)[1]:
- Heureux ceux qui le comprennent assez tôt pour ne pas trop prolonger une lutte inutile, épuisante […]
- Happy are they who understand in time not to prolong a useless, exhausting struggle […]
- (sports) wrestling
Derived terms
editVerb
editlutte
- inflection of lutter:
Related terms
editSee also
edit- bataille f
Further reading
edit- “lutte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Nynorsk
editParticiple
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Verb
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Pali
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Adjective
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