rhume

Borrowed from Late Latin rheuma, from Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma).

• IPA^(key): /ʁym/

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rhume m (plural rhumes)

1. cold (illness)

   Avoir le rhume. ― To have a cold.

   Mon fils a un gros rhume car il a attrapé froid.

   My son has a bad cold because he has caught a chill.

   Avec ce temps-là, un rhume s'attrape facilement.

   With that kind of weather, it's easy to catch a cold.

• enrhumer
• rhume des foins

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

• humer