Noun: oreille
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | oreille |
| Plural f | oreilles |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like oreille
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 oreille, from Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws. Cognate with Catalan and Galician orella; Portuguese orelha; Italian orecchio; Occitan aurelha; Romanian ureche; and Spanish oreja. Compare zoreille, zorey. See: Latin Nouns '
auricula', Portuguese Nouns '
orelha', Italian Nouns '
orecchio', Romanian Nouns '
ureche', Spanish Nouns '
oreja'.
Verbs referencing "oreille"
French Nouns
zoreille.
Translations