vipère

See also: vipere

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French vipre, directly borrowed from Latin vīpera. Displaced an earlier Old French doublet guivre (cf. also French vouivre) and its Old Northern French equivalent wivre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.pɛʁ/

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Noun

vipère f (plural vipères)

1. viper
2. (figuratively) a malignant person

Derived terms

• vipère de la mort
• vipère heurtante

Further reading

• “vipère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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