dryade
See also: Dryade
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dryade (plural dryades)
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French dryade, from Latin dryas, from Ancient Greek δρυάς (druás).
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dryade f (plural dryaden or dryades)
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From Old French driade (“wood nymph”), from Latin Dryadem (“dryad”), from Ancient Greek Δρυάς (Druás, “dryad”), from δρῦς (drûs, “oak”), from Proto-Indo-European *derew(o)- (“tree, wood”); cf. Proto-Indo-European *dóru.
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dryade f (plural dryades)
- (Greek mythology) dryad
- (ecology) forest tree, sciaphilous in young state
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- “dryade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.