coffre

From Middle French, from Old French cofre, from Latin cophinus (“basket”), from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “basket”). Doublet of couffin.

• IPA^(key): /kɔfʁ/

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coffre m (plural coffres)

1. chest, box
2. boot (UK), trunk (US) (luggage storage compartment of a vehicle, i.e. car)

• coffre au trésor
• coffre-fort

coffre

1. inflection of coffrer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

coffre

1. alternative form of cofre

coffre m (plural coffres)

1. box; chest