créature
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin creatūra (like English creature), from creo, creare (“to create”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
créature f (plural créatures)
- a creature, a living being, especially seen as the work of the divine Creator
- anything created or devised by a person
- a person who is at the mercy of another, notably in whose gift his position is
Related terms edit
References edit
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
Further reading edit
- “créature”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.