renard
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French renard, from Old French renart, the name of the fox in the medieval Roman de Renart. A Germanic personal name, from Frankish *Raginahardu, from Proto-Germanic *Raginaharduz, from *raginą (“counsel”) + *harduz (“hard, strong”). Compare German Reinhard, whence Reineke (name of the fox, after the same tale). Displaced goupil (from Latin vulpecula), possibly by way of taboo avoidance.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
renard m (plural renards, feminine renarde, diminutive renardeau)
- fox (small carnivore)
- (figurative) crafty, purposeful and cunning character
- (slang) flatulence
- (nautical) ancient navigation tool: circular, wooden or copper plate, which enables the helmsman to keep a record of wind conditions by inserting pegs at specific positions
- hardly detectable cracks or holes causing a water tank or pond to empty itself
Derived terms edit
- coudre la peau du renard à celle du lion
- faux renard
- queue de renard
- queue-de-renard
- renard à grandes oreilles
- renard à oreilles de chauve-souris
- renard à petites oreilles
- renard afghan
- renard andin
- renard arctique
- renard blanc
- renard bleu
- renard blond des sables
- renard chenu
- renard commun
- renard corsac
- renard côtier
- renard crabier
- renard culpeo
- renard de Blanford
- renard de Darwin
- renard de la pampa
- renard de Magellan
- renard de Patagonie
- renard de Rüppell
- renard des Andes
- renard des Falkland
- renard des sables
- renard des savanes
- renard des steppes
- renard du Bengale
- renard du Brésil
- renard du Cap
- renard du désert austral
- renard du désert de Sechura
- renard du Tibet
- renard d’Amérique
- renard d’Amérique du Sud
- renard d’Amérique latine
- renard d’Aszara
- renard d’Azara
- renard d’Europe
- renard famélique
- renard gris
- renard gris argenté
- renard gris de Patagonie
- renard gris d’Amérique
- renard gris d’Argentine
- renard gris insulaire
- renard insulaire
- renard isatis
- renard nain
- renard pâle
- renard polaire
- renard rouge
- renard roux
- renard véloce
- renard vulgaire
- renard-chaton
- renard-chaton à longues oreilles
- renarde
- renardeau
- renardelle
- renarder
- renardie
- renardier
- renardière
- renardise
- requin renard
- rusé comme un renard
- vendre la poule au renard
See also edit
- goupil (“fox”) (older term, now obsolete)
- Goupil (French surname, see Saint René Goupil)
- Renart le goupil (= German: Reineke Fuchs; English: Reynard the Fox)
Further reading edit
- “renard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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