propre
English
Adjective
propre (comparative more propre, superlative most propre)
- Obsolete form of proper.
Anagrams
Danish
Adjective
propre
- definite and plural of proper
French
Etymology
From Old French propre, borrowed from Latin proprius.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁɔpʁ/
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Adjective
propre (plural propres)
- clean
- une maison propre - a clean house
- house-trained
- (before a noun) own
- C'est ma propre maison - It's my own house
- (mathematics) eigen-
- valeur propre - eigenvalue
- (followed by the preposition à) proper to, specific to, particular to
- Synonym: spécifique
Derived terms
Derived terms
- nom propre
- propre-à-rien
- propre comme un sou neuf
- proprement
- propreté
- sous-espace propre
- valeur propre
- vecteur propre
Related terms
Further reading
- “propre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
From Old French propre, borrowed from Latin proprius.
Adjective
propre m, f
Synonyms
Derived terms
- proprément (“cleanly”)
Old French
Etymology
Adjective
propre m (oblique and nominative feminine singular propre)
Descendants
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