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oreille

Finnish

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Noun

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oreille

  1. allative plural of ori

French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French oreille, from Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws. Cognate with Catalan and Galician orella; Portuguese orelha; Italian orecchio; Occitan aurelha; Romanian ureche; and Spanish oreja. Compare zoreille, zorey.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɔ.ʁɛj/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛj

Noun

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oreille f (plural oreilles)

  1. ear

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Mauritian Creole: zorey
  • Réunion Creole French: zoreilles, z'oreilles, zorey
  • Saint Dominican Creole French: z'oreille
  • Seychellois Creole: zorey
  • → Esperanto: orelo

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Middle French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris.

Noun

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oreille f (plural oreilles)

  1. ear

Descendants

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  • French: oreille (see there for further descendants)

Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris (“ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws.

Noun

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oreille f (plural oreilles)

  1. (Guernsey, anatomy) ear
    • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎[1], page 542:
      Chu qu' nou n'a jamais veu, et jamais ne verra,
      Ch'est le nic d'une souaris dans l'oreille d'un cat.
      One thing you have never seen and will never see, a mouse's nest in a cat's ear.

Old French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin ōricula, variant of auricula.

First attested circa 1050 in the Oxford manuscript of La Chanson de Roland.[1]

Noun

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oreille oblique singular, f (oblique plural oreilles, nominative singular oreille, nominative plural oreilles)

  1. ear

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “auricula”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 988
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