homard

See also: Homard

French

Etymology

From an earlier form houmar, from Middle Low German hummer, from Old Norse humarr (“lobster”). The form homard was probably influenced by Dutch hommer.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ.maʁ/, IPA^(key): /o.maʁ/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /hɔ̃mar/

Noun

homard m (plural homards)

1. lobster
   • 1758, Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, traduite du Biblia Naturae de Jean Swammerdam, Collection Académique, composée des mémoires, actes ou journaux […] , volume 5 of the series (2 of the subseries), Article III, page 447:

     […] dans les écrevisses & dans les homards, les dents ne sont placées que dans la cavité même de l’estomac […]

     […] in crayfish and lobsters, the teeth are located only inside the stomach cavity […]

Derived terms

• homard à l’américaine
• homard américain
• homard breton
• homard canadien
• homard européen

 

Descendants

• → Hawaiian: ʻōmā
• → Hungarian: homár
• → Polish: homar
• → Romanian: homar
• → Russian: ома́р (omár) (see there for further descendants)

See also

• écrevisse
• langoustine

Further reading

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

Middle English

Adverb

homard

1. Alternative form of homward