oreille

Etymology

From Middle French oreille, from Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws. Cognate with Catalan orella, Galician orella, Portuguese orelha, Italian orecchio, Occitan aurelha, Romanian ureche, and Spanish oreja.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁɛj/

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Noun

oreille f (plural oreilles)

1. ear

Further reading

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

Etymology

From Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris.

Noun

oreille f (plural oreilles)

1. ear

Alternative forms

• orêle (continental Normandy)
• ouothelle (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris (“ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws.

Noun

oreille f (plural oreilles)

1. (Guernsey, anatomy) ear

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris. First recorded circa 1050 in the Oxford manuscript of La Chanson de Roland^[1].

Noun

oreille f (oblique plural oreilles, nominative singular oreille, nominative plural oreilles)

1. ear

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