Noun: merle
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | merle |
| Singular f | merlesse; merlette |
| Plural m | merles |
Sample Sentences
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Quand nous chanterons le temps des cerises / Et gai rossignol et merle moqueur / Seront tous en fête [1944, “Le Temps des cerises”, performed by Yves Montand:]
Nouns inflected like merle
merle,
Etymology
1. Inherited from Latin merula, the word for the male blackbird being mostly female until the 16th century. Probable influence of the Late Latin masculine form merulus.
2. Cognates
3. * Galician melro, merla, merlo, merliño
4. * Italian merlo
5. * Spanish mirlo
6. * Portuguese melro See: Latin Nouns '
merula', Latin Nouns '
merula', Galician Nouns '
melro', Italian Nouns '
merlo', Spanish Nouns '
mirlo', Portuguese Nouns '
melro'.
Verbs referencing "merle"
English Nouns
merle.
Translations