Noun: ogre
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | ogre |
| Singular f | ogresse |
| Plural m | ogres |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like ogre
satyre,
chanoine,
félibre,
sauvage,
notaire,
centaure,
gonze,
comte,
tigre,
âne,
traître,
druide,
apôtre,
mulâtre,
prêtre,
isapôtre,
pauvre,
ogre,
pape,
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old French ogre, itself probably an alteration, with influence from words like bougre, of an earlier form *orc, from Latin Orcus (“the underworld; the god Pluto”), with metathesis. According to the Trésor de la langue française informatisé, first attested in the late 12th century meaning 'fierce non-Christian', and ca. 1300 meaning 'human-eating giant' (in fairy tales). Cognate with Old Spanish huerco (“the Devil”), Spanish huerco (“depressed man in the dark”), Italian orco (“ogre, orc”). Doublet of orque.
2. See also French lutin (“imp, pixie”), possibly from Old French netun (“marine monster”), derived from Latin Neptūnus, and also Old French gene (“mischievous fairy”) and Romanian zână (“fairy”), both inherited forms of Latin Diāna. A sermon by Merovingian French bishop St. Eligius (died 659) advises people against belief in Neptune, Diana, Orcus and Minerva. See: Latin Nouns '
Orcus', Old Spanish Nouns '
huerco', Spanish Nouns '
huerco', Italian Nouns '
orco'.
Verbs referencing "ogre"
English Nouns
ogre, Portuguese Nouns
ogro, German Nouns
Oger, Polish Nouns
ogr, Russian Nouns
огр.
Translations