allègre

From Old French halaigre, from Latin alacer, alacrem (“lively; happy, joyful”). The Old French form alegre derived from a Vulgar Latin form *alacru, and the form (h)aliegre from an *alĕcru. The transition of Latin -cr- to French -gr- is irregular; it may have been influenced partly by Old Occitan alegre. Doublet of allegro.

• IPA^(key): /a.lɛɡʁ/

allègre (plural allègres)

1. joyful, happy

• allègrement

• “allègre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• alléger

From Old French halaigre, from Latin alacer (“lively; happy, joyful”).

allègre m or f

1. (Jersey) brisk

• allègrément (“briskly”)