vipère
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Middle French#VIPERECategory:French terms derived from Middle French#VIPERE [Term?]Category:Middle French term requests#VIPÈRE, from Old FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Old French#VIPERECategory:French terms derived from Old French#VIPERE vipre, directly borrowed from LatinCategory:French terms borrowed from Latin#VIPERECategory:French terms derived from Latin#VIPERE vīpera. Displaced an earlier Old French doublet guivre (cf. also French vouivre) and its Old Northern French equivalent wivre.
Pronunciation
Noun
vipère f (plural vipères)Category:French lemmas#VIPERECategory:French nouns#VIPERECategory:French countable nouns#VIPERECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#VIPERECategory:French feminine nouns#VIPERECategory:Pages with entries#VIPÈRECategory:Pages with 1 entry#VIPÈRE
- viper
- (figuratively) a malignant person
Derived terms
Further reading
- “vipère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012