vipère
See also: vipere
French edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
vipère f (plural vipères)
- viper
- (figuratively) a malignant person
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “vipère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.