oreille

oreille

1. allative plural of ori

Inherited from Middle French oreille, from Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws. Cognate with Catalan and Galician orella; Portuguese orelha; Italian orecchio; Occitan aurelha; Romanian ureche; and Spanish oreja. Compare zoreille, zorey.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁɛj/

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• Rhymes: -ɛj

oreille f (plural oreilles)

1. ear

• (informal) esgourde, feuille

• auriculaire

• Mauritian Creole: zorey
• Réunion Creole French: zoreilles, z'oreilles, zorey
  • French: zoreille, zorey
• Saint Dominican Creole French: z'oreille
  • Haitian Creole: zòrèy
• Seychellois Creole: zorey
• → Esperanto: orelo

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

• aureille

From Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris.

oreille f (plural oreilles)

1. ear

• French: oreille (see there for further descendants)

• orêle (continental Normandy)
• ouothelle (Jersey)

From Old French oreille, from Vulgar Latin oricla, from Latin auricula, diminutive of auris (“ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws.

oreille f (plural oreilles)

1. (Guernsey, anatomy) ear
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 542:

     Chu qu' nou n'a jamais veu, et jamais ne verra,
     Ch'est le nic d'une souaris dans l'oreille d'un cat.

     One thing you have never seen and will never see, a mouse's nest in a cat's ear.

Inherited from Latin ōricula, variant of auricula.

First attested circa 1050 in the Oxford manuscript of La Chanson de Roland.^[1]

oreille oblique singular, f (oblique plural oreilles, nominative singular oreille, nominative plural oreilles)

1. ear

• Champenois: airoille
• Franc-Comtois: aroiye
• Middle French: aureille (spelling influenced by Latin auricula), oreille
  • French: oreille (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: oreille, orêle, ouothelle, oyêle
• Walloon: oraye