soeur

See also: sœur

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sœʁ/
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Noun

soeur f (plural soeurs)

Nonstandard spelling of sœur.

Usage notes

The œ ligature is often replaced in contemporary French with oe (the œ character does not appear on AZERTY keyboards), but this is nonstandard.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

euros, ourse, roues

Middle French

Alternative forms

seur
suer

Etymology

From Old French suer, from Latin soror.

Noun

soeur f (plural soeurs)

sister

Descendants

French: sœur

Norman

Alternative forms

soeu (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French suer, from Latin soror, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

Noun

soeur f (plural soeurs)

(Guernsey) sister

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