Noun: poisson
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | poisson |
| Plural m | poissons |
Sample Sentences
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Poisson sans boisson est poison. (Fish without drink is poison.)
Nouns inflected like poisson
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French poisson, from Old French poisson, peisson, from an older form peis with suffix -on, from Latin piscem, see below. Alternatively, but less likely, through a Vulgar Latin *pisciō, pisciōnem. See: Latin Nouns '
piscis'.
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