suppositoire
French
editPronunciation
editNoun
editsuppositoire m (plural suppositoires)
Further reading
edit- “suppositoire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
editAlternative forms
edit- suppositorie (Anglo-Norman)
- suppositoyre (Anglo-Norman)
Etymology
editAttested at least as early as 1377 in Bernard de Gordon's Fleur de lys en medecine. Borrowed from Latin suppositorium.
Noun
editsuppositoire oblique singular, m (oblique plural suppositoires, nominative singular suppositoires, nominative plural suppositoire)