Noun: cercueil
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | cercueil |
| Plural m | cercueils |
Sample Sentences
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Dans son testament, il a demandé que son cercueil reste fermé pendant son enterrement. (In his will, he asked that his casket stay closed during his funeral.)
Nouns inflected like cercueil
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
Alteration of Old French sarqueu, sarcou, from Latin sarcophagus. Doublet of sarcophage. See: Latin Nouns '
sarcophagus'.
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