deuil
French
Etymology
Alteration of Old French duel, plural dueus (possibly influenced by analogy to œil and its plural), which probably came from Late Latin dolus, a derivative of Latin dolor (“pain”), or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *dolium, from cordolium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dœj/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -œj
Noun
deuil m (plural deuils)
- bereavement
- (uncountable) mourning
- deuil national - national mourning
- mourning (clothes)
- 1940, E. M. Cioran, La Crépescule des Pensées
- De naissance je porte un deuil — le deuil de ce monde —
- 1940, E. M. Cioran, La Crépescule des Pensées
- funeral procession
Further reading
- “deuil” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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