Adjective: fauve
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | fauve |
| Singular f. | fauve |
| Plural m. | fauves |
| Plural f. | fauves |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like fauve
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 Middle French fauve, from Old French falve, from Late Latin falvus, a borrowing from Frankish *falu, *falw- (compare Dutch vaal, English fallow and German falb), from Proto-Germanic *falwaz (“pale, grey”). The adjectival sense of "savage, fierce" comes from the noun sense "wild animal," which is in turn a shortening of bête au pelage fauve (“animal with tawny fur”). See: Dutch Adjectives '
vaal', English Adjectives '
fallow', German Adjectives '
falb'.
Verbs referencing "fauve"
Spanish Adjectives
overo, Italian Adjectives
falbo, Catalan Adjectives
falb.
Translations