aigre
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aigre (comparative more aigre, superlative most aigre)
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French aigre, from Vulgar Latin ācrus (possibly via a southern Gallo-Romance dialect), from Latin ācer (with a change in declension), from Proto-Italic *akris, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱrós (“sharp”). Doublet of âcre, which was borrowed from Latin.
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aigre (plural aigres)
- sharp, sour, acid
- Synonym: acide
- cerises aigres
- sour cherries
- shrill (voice); biting (wind etc.)
- la voix aigre des cornemuses
- the shrill voice of the bagpipes
- 2007, Georges Chétochine, La vérité sur les gestes, page 169:
- Le ton de sa voix un peu aigre et nasillard est parfaitement synchronisé avec son regard langoureux, humain.
- The sound of his voice, a little shrill and nasal, is perfectly synchronised with his languid, human look.
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- “aigre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Etymology edit
From Late Latin ācrus, from Latin ācer (with a change in declension), from Proto-Italic *akris, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱrós (“sharp”). The unexpected /ɡ/ may point to this form being borrowed from southern Gallo-Romance dialects.[1] Cf. the variant aire, which shows the phonologically regular outcome for Old French.
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aigre m (oblique and nominative feminine singular aigre)
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References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (aigre)
- "egre." Anglo-Norman Dictionary (AND2 Online Edition), Aberystwyth University, 2021. Web. 5 April 2021. https://anglo-norman.net/entry/egre.
- ^ “aigre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.