flûte
French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut. The contraction of the Old French hiatus created a long vowel in Middle French, which is indicated by the modern circumflex.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
flûte f (plural flûtes)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Interjection edit
flûte
- blow!, drat! (mildly impolite interjection)
- Synonym: zut
- 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, pages 85–86:
- Devant toi, une fille sourit. Tu l’aimes. Elle ne le saura jamais. Flûte. C’était une belle minute.
- In front of you, a girl smiles. You love her. She'll never know. Damn. It was a beautiful moment.
Further reading edit
- “flûte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French flûte, from Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut. Doublet of flauto.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
flûte m or (in specialist contexts) f (invariable)[3]
References edit
- ^ flute in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- ^ flûte in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- ^ D'Achille, Paolo (2015 October 19) “Beviamo lo spumante nel flûte o nella flûte? [Do we drink from the flute (masculine) or in the flute (feminine)?]”, in Accademia della Crusca, editor, Consulenza linguistica [Linguistic consultancy][1] (in Italian), Accademia della Crusca, published 2015, archived from the original on 29 January 2018
Walloon edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French flûte, from Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flauto.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
flûte f (plural flûtes)
- flute (musical instrument)