crâne

• IPA^(key): /kʁan/ ~ /kʁɑn/

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From Middle French crane (14th c.), a borrowing from Medieval Latin crānium.

crâne m (plural crânes)

1. (anatomy) skull, cranium

crâne (plural crânes)

1. (archaic) gallant

• → Dutch: kraan (“strong man”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

crâne

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

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

• ancre, ancré, cerna, écran, encra, nacre, rance