soeur

See also: sœur

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sœʁ/
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Noun

soeur f (plural soeurs)

Nonstandard spelling of sœur.

Usage notes

The œ ligature is often replaced in contemporary French with oe (the œ character does not appear on AZERTY keyboards), but this is nonstandard.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

euros, ourse, roues

Middle French

Alternative forms

seur
suer

Etymology

From Old French suer, from Latin soror.

Noun

soeur f (plural soeurs)

sister

Descendants

French: sœur

Norman

Alternative forms

soeu (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French suer, from Latin soror, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

Noun

soeur f (plural soeurs)

(Guernsey) sister

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