deuil
French edit
Etymology edit
Alteration of Old French duel, plural dueus (possibly influenced by analogy to œil and its plural), which probably came from Late Latin dolus, a derivative of Latin dolor (“pain”), or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *dolium, from cordolium.
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Noun edit
deuil m (countable and uncountable, plural deuils)
- bereavement
- (uncountable) mourning
- deuil national ― national mourning
- (countable) mourning (clothes)
- funeral procession
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Further reading edit
- “deuil”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.