vipère

See also: vipere

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French vipre, directly borrowed from Latin vīpera. Displaced an earlier Old French doublet guivre (cf. also French vouivre) and its Old Northern French equivalent wivre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vi.pɛʁ/
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Noun

vipère f (plural vipères)

  1. viper
  2. (figuratively) a malignant person

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