vapeur
French
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Middle French vapeur, from Old French vapour, vapor, borrowed from Latin vapor m.
Noun
editvapeur f (plural vapeurs)
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editEtymology 2
editEllipsis of bateau à vapeur, from vapeur (“steam, vapor”).
Noun
editvapeur m (plural vapeurs)
Descendants
edit- → Romanian: vapor
Further reading
edit- “vapeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editOld French
editAlternative forms
editNoun
editvapeur oblique singular, f (oblique plural vapeurs, nominative singular vapeur, nominative plural vapeurs)
- 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
References
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (vapeur, supplement)
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