Noun: coiffe
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | coiffe |
| Plural f | coiffes |
Sample Sentences
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une coiffe paysanne (a peasant's coif (similar to a white bonnet))
Nouns inflected like coiffe
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French coiffe, from Late Latin cofia, from Old High German *kuffia, *kuphia (“little cap”), diminutive of Old High German kuffa, kupha (“hood, cap”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuppu (“round object, bowl”) (see English cop). See also Middle High German kupfe (“cap”), Old High German kupphia (“cap”); also spelled coeffe up to the 18th century. See: English Nouns '
cop'.
Verbs referencing "coiffe"
Romanian Nouns
coif.
Translations