rosse – French noun declension

French noun forms of rosse

Noun: rosse
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular frosse
Plural frosses

Sample Sentences

  • Alors il cinglait de plus belle ses deux rosses tout en sueur, mais sans prendre garde aux cahots, accrochant par-ci par- là, ne s'en souciant, démoralisé, et presque pleurant de soif, de fatigue et de tristesse. [1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:]

Etymology

From Middle French rosse, from Old French roche, *rosse (“bad horse”), from Old Frankish *hross (“horse”), from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse, steed”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Cognate with Old High German hros, ros (“horse, steed”), Old English hors (“horse”). More at horse. See: Old English Nouns 'hors'.

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