Noun: couvée
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | couvée |
| Plural f | couvées |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like couvée
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
From Old French covée (“brood (of chickens), clutch”), a noun use of the feminine past participle of couver (“to brood (an egg)”), from Latin cubāre, the present active infinitive of cubō (“to lie down, recline; to incubate; to be broody”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (“to lie down”). See: Latin Nouns '
cubāre'.
Verbs referencing "couvée"
English Nouns
covey.
Translations