Noun: âme
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | âme |
| Plural f | âmes |
Sample Sentences
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C'est un village de 800 âmes. (It's a village of 800 souls.)
Nouns inflected like âme
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French ame, amme, from Old French ame, anme, anima, from Latin anima. Compare dialectal English onde (“breath”), Gothic 𐌰𐌷𐌼𐌰 (ahma, “spirit”). See: Latin Nouns '
anima', English Nouns '
onde'.
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