cri

• IPA^(key): /kʁi/

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• Homophones: crie, cries, crient, cris

Since the Middle Ages, deverbal form of crier.

cri m (plural cris)

1. cry; shout; scream

   Tu entends le cri du loup?

   Can you hear the wolf's cry?

• à cor et à cri
• cri de guerre
• cri de ralliement
• cri du cœur
• dernier cri
• syndrome du cri du chat

• criard
• crier

Clipping of Christenaux (now Knistenaux), from Cree Kenisteniwuik (the name of a Cree village).

cri m (uncountable)

1. Cree (language)

cri (feminine crie, masculine plural cris, feminine plural cries)

1. (relational) Cree

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

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cri

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of crer

cri m (plural cris or criz)

1. cry; shout

• crier, cryer

cri oblique singular, m (oblique plural cris, nominative singular cris, nominative plural cri)

1. cry; shout

• crier

Onomatopoeic.

• cri cri, cri cri cri

cri

1. represents the chirp of a cricket

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cri

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of crer

Onomatopoeic.

cri

1. chirrup (sound made by crickets)