orvet

From French orvet.

orvet (plural orvets)

1. (obsolete) The slowworm.

• “orvet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• overt, trove, voter

Uncertain; probably from Old French orb (“blind”).

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.vɛ/

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orvet m (plural orvets)

1. slowworm

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

• voter, votre, vôtre