vapeur

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /va.pœʁ/
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Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French vapeur, from Old French vapour, vapor, borrowed from Latin vapor m.

Noun

vapeur f (plural vapeurs)

  1. steam
  2. vapour
Synonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of bateau à vapeur, from vapeur (steam, vapor).

Noun

vapeur m (plural vapeurs)

  1. steamship
Descendants
  • Romanian: vapor

Further reading

Anagrams

Old French

Alternative forms

Noun

vapeur oblique singular, f (oblique plural vapeurs, nominative singular vapeur, nominative plural vapeurs)

  1. vapor
    • 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 155 of this essay:
      elle se eschauffe et amoistit pour les vapeurs
      It heats up and becomes moist by the vapors

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (vapeur, supplement)
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