Noun: berceau
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | berceau |
| Plural m | berceaux |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like berceau
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
1. From Old French berçuel (diminutive of bers) from Vulgar Latin berciolum diminutive of *bertium, from Gaulish *berta, from Proto-Celtic *bertā, variant of *bereti (“to carry”).
2. Compare Old Irish bert (“bundle”). Cognate with Catalan bressol, Portuguese berço and Galician berce. See: Catalan Nouns '
bressol', Portuguese Nouns '
berço', Galician Nouns '
berce'.
Verbs referencing "berceau"
Galician Nouns
berce, Portuguese Nouns
berço, Catalan Nouns
bres, Catalan Nouns
bressol, Swedish Nouns
berså.
Translations