Noun: feuille
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | feuille |
| Plural f | feuilles |
Sample Sentences
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Les membres principaux de la plante sont au nombre de trois : la racine, la tige, la feuille. (There are three main parts of the plant: the root, the stem, and the leaf.) [1903, Maurice Pillard Verneuil, Étude de la plante, page 2:]
Nouns inflected like feuille
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
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-der.
3. Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom?
4. Proto-Indo-European *dʰelh₁-der.
5. Proto-Indo-European *dʰolh₁yom?
6. Proto-Italic *foljom
7. Classical Latin folium
8. Late Latin folia
9. Old French fueille
10. Middle French feuille
11. French feuille
12. Inherited from Middle French feuille, from Old French fueille, from Late Latin folia, plural of folium in Classical Latin, itself probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”). Doublet of folio, which was borrowed from Latin. Compare English foil, Spanish hoja, Portuguese folha, Catalan fulla, and Italian foglia. See: English Nouns '
foil', Spanish Nouns '
hoja', Portuguese Nouns '
folha', Catalan Nouns '
fulla', Italian Nouns '
foglia'.
Verbs referencing "feuille"
Catalan Nouns
full, Spanish Nouns
hoja, Catalan Nouns
fulla.
Translations