Noun: rossignol
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | rossignol |
| Plural m | rossignols |
Sample Sentences
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chanter comme un rossignol
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Ce dernier, ayant remarqué que les marchandises démodées, les rossignols, s’enlevaient d’autant plus rapidement que la guelte donnée aux commis était plus forte, avait basé sur cette observation un nouveau commerce. (He, having noticed that the outdated merchandise, the junk, shifted more quickly the higher the commission that the shop assistants were given, had based a new business on this observation.) [1883, Émile Zola, chapter 2, in Au Bonheur des Dames:]
Nouns inflected like rossignol
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
From Old Occitan rossinhol (cf. Catalan rossinyol), from Vulgar Latin *lusciniolus, masculine diminutive of Latin luscinia (“nightingale”). According to De Vaan, "might be explained with haplology from *lusci-cania (“singing in the night; blind singer”), but this is conjecture. See: Catalan Nouns '
rossinyol', Latin Nouns '
luscinia'.
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