derrière
See also: derriere
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French derrière.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editderrière (plural derrières)
- (chiefly humorous) Bottom, bum, backside.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks
- 2011 July 30, “Baby you can drive my genes”, in The Economist[1]:
- As for high-heels, they hoist the derrière and make the gait more feminine and physically attractive.
Translations
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French deriere, from Late Latin dē retrō, from Latin dē + retrō.[1] Cognate with Italian dietro.
Pronunciation
editPreposition
editderrière
- behind
- at the bottom of, behind (covertly responsible for)
- Je me demande qui est derrière tout ça. ― I wonder who is at the bottom of all this.
Adverb
editderrière
Derived terms
editNoun
editderrière m (plural derrières)
Descendants
edit- Haitian Creole: dèyè
References
edit- ^ Picoche, Jacqueline with Jean-Claude Rolland (2009) Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert
Further reading
edit- “derrière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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