vapeur
French
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editEtymology 1
editInherited fromMiddle Frenchvapeur, fromOld Frenchvapour,vapor, borrowed fromLatinvapor m.
Noun
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editEtymology 2
editEllipsis ofbateau à vapeur, fromvapeur(“steam, vapor”).
Noun
editDescendants
edit- → Romanian:vapor
Further reading
edit- “vapeur”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.
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editOld French
editAlternative forms
editNoun
editvapeuroblique singular, f (oblique pluralvapeurs,nominative singularvapeur,nominative pluralvapeurs)
- vapor
- 1377,Bernard de Gordon,Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page155 of this essay:
- elle se eschauffe et amoistit pour lesvapeurs
- It heats up and becomes moist by the vapors
References
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric,Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes duIXe auXVe siècle (1881) (vapeur, supplement)
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