Noun: orgueil
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | orgueil |
| Plural m | orgueils |
Sample Sentences
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Le revers a blessé son orgueil. (The misfortune hurt his pride.)
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Je ne prendrai pas de charité; j'ai mon orgueil. (I won't take any charity; I still have my pride.)
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Et toute la journée il répète comme toi : « Je suis un homme sérieux ! Je suis un homme sérieux ! » et ça le fait gonfler d'orgueil. (And all day he says over and over, just like you: ‘I am busy with matters of consequence!’ And that makes him swell up with pride.) [1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, chapter VII, in Le petit prince [The Little Prince], New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 30:]
Nouns inflected like orgueil
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 Middle French orgueil, from Old French orgoil, from Vulgar Latin *orgollium, borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *uʀgōllju, from Proto-Germanic *uzgōljō. Cognate with Old High German urguol (“outstanding, distinguished”), Old Saxon urgôl (“outstanding, distinguished”), Old English orgel, orgello (“pride”). Compare Italian orgoglio, Spanish orgullo, Catalan orgull. See: Old English Nouns '
orgel', Italian Nouns '
orgoglio', Spanish Nouns '
orgullo', Catalan Nouns '
orgull'.
Verbs referencing "orgueil"
Portuguese Nouns
orgulho, Galician Nouns
orgullo, Spanish Nouns
orgullo, English Nouns
orgueil.
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