entrailles

Etymology

From the plural of Old French entraille, from Vulgar Latin *intralia, from Latin interanea, from interaneus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃t.ʁaj/

Noun

entrailles f pl (plural only)

1. entrails, bowels, guts
2. (literary) womb

   le fruit de vos entrailles est béni - blessed is the fruit of thy womb

3. (figuratively) bowels, depths

   dans les entrailles de la Terre - down in the bowels of the Earth

Further reading

• “entrailles” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• réinstalle, réinstallé

Noun

entrailles f

1. inflection of entraille:
   1. oblique plural
   2. nominative plural