Noun: cri
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | cri |
| Plural m | cris |
uncountable
Sample Sentences
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Tu entends le cri du loup? (Can you hear the wolf's cry?)
Nouns inflected like cri
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French cri, from Old French cri, a deverbal derived from crier (“to cry”). Compare English cry. See: English Nouns '
cry'.
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