Adjective: aigre
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | aigre |
| Singular f. | aigre |
| Plural m. | aigres |
| Plural f. | aigres |
Sample Sentences
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cerises aigres (sour cherries)
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la voix aigre des cornemuses (the shrill voice of the bagpipes)
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Le ton de sa voix un peu aigre et nasillard est parfaitement synchronisé avec son regard langoureux, humain. (The sound of his voice, a little shrill and nasal, is perfectly synchronised with his languid, human look.) [2007, Georges Chétochine, La vérité sur les gestes, page 169:]
Adjectives inflected like aigre
emblématique,
antipianistique,
vanadique,
électrolysable,
sébacique,
aponévrotique,
fétichiste,
chromosomique,
archéographique,
fiduciaire,
judiciaire,
accusable,
monomyaire,
ontogénétique,
cinématique,
technétronique,
mélangeable,
neuropathique,
neurologique,
panchronique, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French aigre, from Vulgar Latin ācrus (possibly via a southern Gallo-Romance dialect), from Latin ācer (with a change in declension), from Proto-Italic *akris, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱrós (“sharp”). Doublet of âcre, which was borrowed from Latin. See: Latin Adjectives '
ācer'.
Verbs referencing "aigre"
English Adjectives
aigre.
Translations