monstre

monstre (plural monstres)

1. Obsolete form of monster.

• Monters, mentors, meronts, metrons, monster, montres, termons

Borrowed from Latin mōnstrum.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔns.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmɔns.tɾe]

monstre m (plural monstres)

1. monster

• monstre de Gila

Inherited from Middle French monstre, from Old French monstre, borrowed from Latin mōnstrum.

• IPA^(key): /mɔ̃stʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃stʁ

monstre m (plural monstres)

1. monster

   Mon petit frère croit que des monstres habitent sous son lit.

   My little brother believes that monsters live under his bed.

2. (figurative) hideous person, fiend

• monstrueux, monstrueuse
• monstrueusement
• monstre sacré

• montrer

• → Romanian: monstru

monstre (plural monstres)

1. (colloquial) enormous

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

• mentors, montres, montrés

monstre (invariable)

1. extraordinary, exceptional
2. monstrous (very large)

• moustre (from Old French mostre etc.)

Borrowed from Old French monstre, borrowed itself from Latin monstrum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔnstər/, /ˈmɔnstrə/

monstre (plural monstres)

1. A monster or beast; a horrific or frightening creature.
2. A marvelous or portentous occasion; a strange happening.
3. (rare) Fate, luck; fortuitousness (as an allegorical figure)

• monstruous

• English: monster
• Scots: monster

• “monstre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 October 2018.

From Old French monstre.

monstre m (plural monstres)

1. monster
   • 1542, Clement Marot, Oeuvres augmentees d'ung grand nombre de ses compositions nouvelles, link:

     Vien à l'umbrage en ce boys de grand' monstre

     Came into the shadow in these woods of a great monster

• French: monstre
  • → Romanian: monstru

From Old French monstre, borrowed from Latin mōnstrum.

monstre m (plural monstres)

1. (Jersey) monster

• divèrs

• mostre, moustre

Borrowed from Latin mōnstrum.

monstre oblique singular, m (oblique plural monstres, nominative singular monstres, nominative plural monstre)

1. monster

• Middle French: monstre
  • French: monstre
    • → Romanian: monstru
• Norman: monstre
• → Middle Dutch: monster
  • Dutch: monster
• → Middle English: monstre, moustre
  • English: monster
  • Scots: monster