suaire
French edit
Etymology edit
Semi-learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin sūdārium (“handkerchief; napkin; shroud”), from sūdāre (“to sweat”) (ancestor of French suer). (If the Latin noun had been inherited by French, the ending would have regularly developed to -ier instead of -aire). By surface analysis, suer + -aire.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
suaire m (plural suaires)
Further reading edit
- “suaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.