Noun: loir
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | loir |
| Plural m | loirs |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like loir
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 Old French loir, leir, lère, from Vulgar Latin *glirem, from Classical Latin glīrem. Compare Spanish lirón. Cf. also similar loss of initial Latin 'g-' in Old French luissel (from *globuscellum), lemoissel (from *glomiscellum). See: Latin Nouns '
glīs', Spanish Nouns '
lirón'.
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