outre

outre

1. Alternative spelling of outré.
   • 2024 May 29, Simon Hattenstone, “The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     [Tracey] Emin is so outre in some ways, so conventional in others.

• utero-, outer, ruote, Toure, route, rouet, Route

• IPA^(key): /utʁ/

Borrowed from Latin uter. Originally masculine in French; feminine since the beginning of the 16th century.

outre f (plural outres)

1. goatskin, wine skin, water skin
   • 2023, Fabcaro, Didier Conrad, L'iris blanc [Asterix and the White Iris] (Asterix), Vanves: Hachette, →ISBN, page 11:

     Tu vois ! Tu ne me regardes plus ! Tu me négliges comme une vieille outre percée !

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Inherited from Old French oltre, inherited from Latin ultra. Doublet of ultra-.

outre

1. as well as, besides, on top of
2. (archaic outside of idioms) across, beyond

• “outre” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “outre” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “outre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• route, routé, troue, troué