allegorie
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French allégorie, from Latin allegoria, from Ancient Greek ἀλληγορία (allēgoría).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɑ.lə.ɣoːˈri/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: al‧le‧go‧rie
- Rhymes: -i
Noun
allegorie f (plural allegorieën, diminutive allegorietje n)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Indonesian: alégori
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /al.le.ɡoˈri.e/
- Rhymes: -ie
- Hyphenation: al‧le‧go‧rì‧e
Noun
allegorie f
- plural of allegoria
Anagrams
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin allegoria, from Ancient Greek ἀλληγορία (allēgoría).
Noun
allegorie oblique singular, f (oblique plural allegories, nominative singular allegorie, nominative plural allegories)
- allegory (symbolic story)
Descendants
References
- Etymology and history of “allégorie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.