gourde
English edit
Etymology edit
French, originally meaning “heavy, clumsy”. Cognate with Haitian Creole goud.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɡʊəd/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ɡʊɹd/
- enPR: go͝ord
- Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)d
Noun edit
gourde (plural gourdes)
Anagrams edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old French coorde, cohourde, with later voicing of initial c-, from Latin cucurbita. Doublet of courge (from the form cohourge). Compare English gourd.
Noun edit
gourde f (plural gourdes)
- gourd
- (by extension) water bottle; flask; canteen (water bottle used by soldiers, camper etc.)
Etymology 2 edit
Influenced by the adjective gourd (“clumsy”).
Noun edit
gourde f (plural gourdes)
- (colloquial) clot, dope; idiot
- gourde (currency of Haiti)
Adjective edit
gourde
Further reading edit
- “gourde”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman gourde, gurde, from Latin cucurbita.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
gourde (plural gourdes)
- A plant of the family Cucurbitaceae; a gourd or similar plant.
- The fruit of such a plant.
Descendants edit
- English: gourd
References edit
- “gǒurd(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norman edit
Adjective edit
gourde