huître

• huitre (post-1990 spelling)

From Old French uistre, oistre, from Latin ostrea, from Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon). The h is unetymological (no h in the Latin ostrea), but it used to disambiguate the pronunciation in the times when u and v were variants of the same letter, cf. huit, huile.

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɥitʁ/

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• Rhymes: -itʁ
• IPA^(key): (Louisiana) /zwit/
• Homophones: huitre, huitres, huîtres

huître f (plural huîtres)

1. oyster

• couteau à huîtres
• huîtrier
• plein comme une huître

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