cire – French noun declension

French noun forms of cire

Noun: cire
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fcire
Plural fcires

Sample Sentences

  • Prenons par exemple ce morceau de cire: il vient tout fraîchement d'être tiré de la ruche, il n'a pas encore perdu la douceur du miel qu'il contenoit, il retient encore quelque chose de l'odeur des fleurs dont il a été recueilli[…] (Let us take as an example this piece of beeswax. It has just been taken from the honeycomb, all fresh; it has not yet lost the sweetness of the honey that it held; it yet retains something of the scent of the flowers from which it was gathered […]) [1647, René Descartes, translated by Louis-Charles d'Albert de Luynes, Méditations métaphysiques [Meditations on First Philosophy]:]

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French cire, from Old French cire, chiere, ciere, from Latin cēra. See: Latin Nouns 'cēra'.

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