allègre

Inherited from Old French halaigre, from Latin alacrem (“lively; happy, joyful”). The Old French form alegre derived from a Vulgar Latin form *alacrum, and the form (h)aliegre from an *alĕcrum. The transition of Latin -cr- to French -gr- is paralleled in aigre, maigre; it may have been influenced partly by Old Occitan alegre. Doublet of allegro.

• IPA^(key): /a.lɛɡʁ/

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allègre (plural allègres)

1. joyful, happy

• allègrement

• → Italian: allegro (see there for further descendants)
• → Romanian: alegru

• “allègre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• alléger

From Old French halaigre, from Latin alacer (“lively; happy, joyful”).

allègre m or f

1. (Jersey) brisk

• allègrément (“briskly”)