Noun: verre
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | verre |
| Plural m | verres |
countable and uncountable
Sample Sentences
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verre de couleur (colored glass)
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Ça casse comme le verre. (That breaks like glass.)
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Une maison de verre. (A house of glass.)
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un verre de lunettes (a glasses lens, an eyeglass lens)
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un verre grossissant (a magnifying glass, a magnifying lens)
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un verre en cristal (a crystal glass)
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On va boire un verre! (Let's go have a drink!)
Nouns inflected like verre
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
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *wed-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *wedrom
4. Proto-Italic *wedrom?
5. Latin vitrum
6. Old French voirre
7. Middle French voirre
8. French verre
9. Inherited from Middle French voirre (most probably pronounced /ˈvwɛːrə/), from Old French voirre, from Latin vitrum. Doublet of vitre.
10. The irregular evolution of /wɛ/ into /ɛ/ in this word is "early but normal after labials"; the influence of derivatives with an etymological first-syllable /ɛ/ may also be relevant. Compare François vs. Français, roide vs. raide. See: Latin Nouns '
vitrum'.
Verbs referencing "verre"
Spanish Nouns
vidrio, Italian Nouns
vetro.
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