airain

Inherited from Old French arain, from Vulgar Latin *arāmen, variant of Late Latin aerāmen, derived from Latin aer-.

Cognate with Catalan aram, Italian rame, Occitan aram, Portuguese arame, Romanian aramă, Sardinian arràmene, Sicilian ramu, Spanish alambre (“wire”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛ.ʁɛ̃/ ~ /e.ʁɛ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɛ̃

airain m (plural airains)

1. (literary, uncountable) any alloy based on copper; bronze
2. (literary, countable) object made of this alloy

• d'airain

• “airain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.