Noun: ogive
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | ogive |
| Plural f | ogives |
Sample Sentences
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ogives nucléaires (nuclear warheads)
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Dans la journée, l’armée russe a procédé à un exercice annuel de dissuasion nucléaire avec des tests de missiles capables de transporter des ogives nucléaires. (During the day, the Russian army carried out an annual nuclear deterrence exercise with tests of missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.) [2022 October 27, Thomas d’Istria, “Oleksii Reznikov, le ministre de la défense ukrainien, ne croit pas que Poutine utilisera l’arme nucléaire”, in Le Monde.fr:]
Nouns inflected like ogive
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
From Vulgar Latin augīvus, from Latin augēre, as the ogive goes on increasing, and the arch it forms increases the strength of the vault. In Old French we find the phrase arc ogif, itself from Latin arcus augivus. The word was also written as augive in the 17th century. See: Latin Nouns '
augēre', Latin Nouns '
arcus augivus'.
Verbs referencing "ogive"
German Nouns
Ogive, Spanish Nouns
ojiva, Romanian Nouns
ogivă.
Translations