rainure
See also: rainuré
French
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editrainure f (plural rainures)
Descendants
editReferences
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.
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