sueur
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French suor, suur, from Latin sūdor, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sweyd-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sueur f (plural sueurs)
- sweat, perspiration
- Synonym: transpiration
- 1972, Henri Vincenot, Le Pape des escargots, page 290:
- Être poète, c’est trouver parfumée la sueur de la femme qu’on aime.
- To be a poet is to consider as perfumed the sweat of the woman he loves.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sueur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sweyd-
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- Rhymes:French/ɥœʁ
- Rhymes:French/ɥœʁ/1 syllable
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- fr:Bodily fluids