Noun: pieu
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | pieu |
| Plural m | pieux |
Sample Sentences
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Je peux venir dans votre pieu ? [1973, Jean Eustache, La Maman et la Putain, spoken by Veronica:]
Nouns inflected like pieu
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 Middle French pieu, a backformation from Old French peus, pex, nominative singular and oblique plural of pel, from Latin pālus (“post, stake”), from Proto-Italic *pākslos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-slos, from *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pal, which is of either dialectal or learned origin. See: Latin Nouns '
pālus'.
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