Noun: heur
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | heur |
| Plural m | heurs |
Sample Sentences
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Sa joie éclatera dans l'heur de ses enfants (She will shine with joy in the fortune of her children) [1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act I, scene I:]
Nouns inflected like heur
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 eür~aür, from Latin augurium. Doublet of augure, which was borrowed from Latin. The non-etymological ⟨h⟩ is due to association with heure (“hour, time”). See: Latin Nouns '
augurium'.
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