entrailles
French edit
Etymology edit
From the plural of Old French entraille, from Early Medieval Latin intrālia (attested in the Reichenau Glossary), from Latin interanea, from interaneus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
entrailles f pl (plural only)
- entrails, bowels, guts
- (literary) womb
- le fruit de vos entrailles est béni ― blessed is the fruit of thy womb
- (figuratively) bowels, depths
- dans les entrailles de la Terre ― down in the bowels of the Earth
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “entrailles”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Old French edit
Noun edit
entrailles f