orchidée

See also: orchidee, orchideę, and Orchidee

French

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin Orchideae, Orchidaceae, an irregular formation from Latin orchis, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.ki.de/
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Noun

orchidée f (plural orchidées)

orchid

Descendants

→ German: Orchidee
- → Dutch: orchidee
- → Estonian: orhidee
→ Malagasy: orkide
→ Norwegian: orkidé
→ Romanian: orhidee
→ Swedish: orkidé
→ Turkish: orkide

Further reading

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

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