équateur
French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin aequātōrem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
équateur m (plural équateurs)
- equator (imaginary great circle around Earth, equidistant from the two poles, and dividing earth's surface into the northern and southern hemisphere)
- Coordinate term: tropique
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “équateur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.