Noun: poireau
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | poireau |
| Plural m | poireaux |
Sample Sentences
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Il est en train de s'astiquer le poireau. (He’s beating his meat.)
Nouns inflected like poireau
renouveau,
pocheteau,
berceau,
métamatériau,
ypréau,
ypreau,
chaudeau,
lanterneau,
lapineau,
bordeau,
lapereau,
bouleau,
paonneau,
bandeau,
barreau,
bardeau,
barbeau,
zoziau,
mâtineau,
colineau, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From the form porreau (probably influenced by poire), from a diminutive of the Old French por (cf. poiree, poree, poret), from Latin porrum. Compare Norman pouothé and Walloon porea. See: Latin Nouns '
porrum'.
Verbs referencing "poireau"
French Nouns
poirée.
Translations