Noun: pelle
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | pelle |
| Plural f | pelles |
Sample Sentences
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Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle / Les souvenirs et les regrets aussi (Dead leaves are shovelled up / Memories and regrets are too) [1945, “Les feuilles mortes”, Jacques Prévert (lyrics), Joseph Kosma (music):]
Nouns inflected like pelle
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 pelle, from Old French pele, from Latin pāla (“shovel, spade”). Doublet of pale, which is of either dialectal or Occitan origin. See: Latin Nouns '
pāla'.
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