contre-jour

See also: contrejour

French

Alternative forms

• contrejour (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

From contre +‎ jour.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tʁə.ʒuʁ/

Noun

contre-jour m (plural contre-jours)

1. backlighting

Related terms

• à contre-jour

Further reading

• “contre-jour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French contre-jour.

Noun

contre-jour n (uncountable)

1. backlight

Declension

declension of contre-jour (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) contre-jour	contre-jourul
genitive/dative	(unui) contre-jour	contre-jourului
vocative	contre-jourule

References

• contre-jour in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN