sommier
See also: Sommier
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
sommier (feminine sommière, masculine plural sommiers, feminine plural sommières)
- (relational) of Somme (department of France)
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Old French somier, from Late Latin saumārius, sagmārius, from Latin sagma.
Noun edit
sommier m (plural sommiers)
- beast of burden
- Synonym: bête de somme
- box spring (box-shaped frame into which is a set of spiral springs, upon which rests a bed mattress)
- Coordinate term: matelas
- (architecture) springer
- windchest (part of an organ)
- pin box (part of a piano)
Descendants edit
- → Spanish: somier
Further reading edit
- “sommier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.