flûte

See also: flute and flûté

French

Alternative forms
  • flute (1990 spelling reform)

Etymology

From Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /flyt/
  • audio(file)

Noun

flûte f (plural flûtes)

  1. (music) flute (musical instrument)

Derived terms

Interjection

flûte

  1. blow!, drat! (mildly impolite interjection)
    Synonym: zut

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /flyt/, /flyte/
  • Stress: flüte [1]
  • Hyphenation: flû‧te

Etymology

From French flûte, from Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut.

Noun

flûte f (plural flûte) flûte m (plural flûte) [2]

  1. flute (type of glass)
Synonyms

References
  1. Treccani, editor (accessed 12 January 2019), “flûte [flute]”, in vocabolario on line [Vocabulary on-line] (in Italian), Treccani, archived from the original on 2 September 2015
  2. D'Achille, Paolo (19 October 2015), “Beviamo lo spumante nel flûte o nella flûte [We drink in the flute (masculine) or in the flute (feminine)?]”, in Accademia della Crusca, editor, Consulenza linguistica [Linguistic consultancy] (in Italian), Accademia della Crusca, published 2015, archived from the original on 29 January 2018, retrieved 12 January 2019
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