flûte

See also: flute and flûté

French

Alternative forms

• flute (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

From Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut. The contraction of the Old French hiatus created a long vowel in Middle French, which is indicated by the modern circumflex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flyt/

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Noun

flûte f (plural flûtes)

1. (music) flute (musical instrument)

Derived terms

• flûte à bec
• flûte de Pan
• flûte traversière

 

Descendants

• → Italian: flute, flûte
• → Luxembourgish: Flütt
• → Walloon: flûte
• → Volapük: flut (possibly)

Interjection

flûte

1. blow!, drat! (mildly impolite interjection)

   Synonym: zut

   • 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, pages 85–86:

     Devant toi, une fille sourit. Tu l’aimes. Elle ne le saura jamais. Flûte. C’était une belle minute.

     In front of you, a girl smiles. You love her. She'll never know. Damn. It was a beautiful moment.

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French flûte, from Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut. Doublet of flauto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflut/, (careful style) /ˈflyt/
• Rhymes: -ut

Noun

flûte m or (in specialist contexts) f (invariable)

1. flute (type of glass)

   Synonyms: flute, fluttino

Walloon

Etymology

Borrowed from French flûte, from Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flauto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flyːt/

Noun

flûte f (plural flûtes)

1. flute (musical instrument)

Derived terms

• flûte di triviè
• pitite flûte