rainure
See also: rainuré
French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French roisner + -ure, from Vulgar Latin *rucina, borrowed from Gaulish *rucina, in turn borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥῠκάνη (rhukánē, “plane, a carpenter's tool”). According to Beekes,[1] the word is likely of Pre-Greek origin, and probably the source for Latin runcīna.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
rainure f (plural rainures)
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1293
Further reading edit
- “rainure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.