langouste

Borrowed from French langouste. Doublet of locust.

langouste (plural langoustes)

1. The spiny lobster

Inherited from Old French langouste, languste, borrowed from Old Occitan langosta, from Vulgar Latin lacusta, from Latin locusta, of uncertain origin. Cf. also the Old French laöste, laüste, laouste, which was inherited from the Latin, as well as locuste, which was a learned borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /lɑ̃.ɡust/

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langouste f (plural langoustes)

1. spiny lobster

• langoustine

• → Czech: langusta
• → Danish: languster
• → English: langouste
• → Finnish: langusti
• → Dutch: langoest
• → German: Languste
• → Polish: langusta
• → Russian: лангу́ст (langúst)
• → Spanish: langosta

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

• soulagent

• languste

Borrowed from Old Occitan langosta, from Vulgar Latin lacusta, from Latin locusta, of uncertain origin. Cf. also the doublet laöste, laüste, laouste, which was inherited from the Latin, as well as locuste, which was a learned borrowing.

langouste oblique singular, f (oblique plural langoustes, nominative singular langouste, nominative plural langoustes)

1. grasshopper

• French: langouste (see there for further descendants)