couvée
French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French covée (“brood (of chickens), clutch”), a noun use of the feminine past participle of couver (“to brood (an egg)”), from Latin cubāre, the present active infinitive of cubō (“to lie down, recline; to incubate; to be broody”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (“to lie down”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
couvée f (plural couvées)
Participle edit
couvée f sg
Further reading edit
- “couvée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.