Noun: bec
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | bec |
| Plural m | becs |
Sample Sentences
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bec et ongles
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nez en bec d’aigle
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flûte à bec
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clouer le bec
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puer du bec
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Certains l’imaginent avec une pépée, un cigare au coin du bec, quelque part sous les cocotiers. (Some imagined him with a pipe, a cigar in the corner of his mouth, somewhere under the coconut trees.)
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Elle m'a fait un bec en partant. (She gave me a kiss in parting.)
Nouns inflected like bec
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French bec, from Latin beccus (“beak”), from Gaulish *beccos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos. See: Latin Nouns '
beccus'.
Verbs referencing "bec"
Romanian Nouns
bec.
Translations