Noun: écrou
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | écrou |
| Plural m | écrous |
Sample Sentences
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levée d'écrou
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billet d'écrou
Nouns inflected like écrou
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
Masculinized form from Middle French escroue, from Old French escroe, from Latin scrōfa, originally “sow (female pig)”; compare Occitan escrofa (“screw nut”), Sicilian scrufina (“screw nut”). The change in meaning is also found in Spanish tuerca (“nut for a bolt”) (from older puerca (“sow, (formerly) nut for a bolt”)), Portuguese porca (“sow, nut for a bolt”), and is based on the fact that a boar's penis has a screw-like tip, making the sow's vulva equivalent to a screw nut by analogy. See: Latin Nouns '
scrōfa'.
Verbs referencing "écrou"
Spanish Nouns
tuerca.
Translations