Noun: lutte
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | lutte |
| Plural f | luttes |
Sample Sentences
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La lutte contre le capitalisme (The struggle against capitalism)
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Heureux ceux qui le comprennent assez tôt pour ne pas trop prolonger une lutte inutile, épuisante […] (Happy are they who understand in time not to prolong a useless, exhausting struggle […]) [1923, Marcel Proust, chapter 1, in La Prisonnière [The Prisoner] (À la recherche du temps perdu):]
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lutte libre (freestyle wrestling)
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lutte gréco-romaine (Graeco-Roman wrestling)
Nouns inflected like lutte
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 Old French, from Late Latin lucta, from Latin luctor (“to wrestle”). Compare Italian lotta, Spanish lucha and Romanian luptă. See: Latin Nouns '
luctor', Italian Nouns '
lotta', Spanish Nouns '
lucha', Romanian Nouns '
luptă'.
Verbs referencing "lutte"
Spanish Nouns
lucha, Italian Nouns
lotta.
Translations