pétrole

From Medieval Latin petroleum, from petra (“rock”) + oleum (“oil”).

• IPA^(key): /pe.tʁɔl/

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pétrole m (plural pétroles)

1. petroleum
2. oil
3. hydrocarbon

• → Chadian Arabic: فترون (fatarōn, fatrōn)

pétrole

1. inflection of pétroler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

• peloter