Noun: fléau
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | fléau |
| Plural m | fléaux |
Sample Sentences
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La haine en ligne est un fléau d’une immense ampleur. (Online hatred is a scourge of immense scale.) [2020 June 19, “Stopper la haine sur Internet”, in Le Monde:]
Nouns inflected like fléau
renouveau,
pocheteau,
berceau,
métamatériau,
ypréau,
ypreau,
chaudeau,
lanterneau,
lapineau,
bordeau,
lapereau,
bouleau,
paonneau,
bandeau,
barreau,
bardeau,
barbeau,
zoziau,
mâtineau,
colineau, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French flaiel, flael, flayau, inherited from Latin flagellum. See: Latin Nouns '
flagellum'.
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