loir
See also: Loir
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From French.
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loir (plural loirs)
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French loir, leir, lère, from Vulgar Latin *glirem, from Classical Latin glīrem. Compare Spanish lirón. Cf. also similar loss of initial Latin 'g-' in Old French luissel (from *globuscellum), lemoissel (from *glomiscellum).
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loir m (plural loirs)
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- → English: loir
Further reading edit
- “loir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.