Noun: furet
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | furet |
| Plural m | furets |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like furet
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
From Old French furet, furret, from Vulgar Latin *fūrittus (literally “little thief”) (compare Italian furetto), diminutive of Latin fūr (“thief”). See also Old French fuiron (“weasel, ferret”), from Vulgar Latin *fūriō, fūriōnem, from Late Latin fūrō (“cat; robber”) (compare Portuguese furão), diminutive of Latin fūr (“thief”). See: Italian Nouns '
furetto', Latin Nouns '
fūr', Portuguese Nouns '
furão', Latin Nouns '
fūr'.
Verbs referencing "furet"
Italian Nouns
furetto, Portuguese Nouns
furão.
Translations