monstre

monstre (plural monstres)

1. Obsolete form of monster.

• Monters, mentors, meronts, metrons, monster, montres

Borrowed from Latin mōnstrum.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔns.tɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔns.tɾe/

monstre m (plural monstres)

1. monster

From Middle French monstre, from Old French monstre, borrowed from Latin mōnstrum.

• IPA^(key): /mɔ̃stʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃stʁ

monstre m (plural monstres)

1. a monster
2. a hideous person
3. a fiend

• monstrueux, monstrueuse
• monstrueusement

• montrer

monstre (plural monstres)

1. (colloquial) enormous

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

• mentors, montres, montrés

monstre (invariable)

1. extraordinary, exceptional
2. monstrous (very large)

• moustre (from Old French mostre etc.)

Borrowed from Old French monstre, borrowed itself from Latin monstrum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔnstər/, /ˈmɔnstrə/

monstre (plural monstres)

1. A monster or beast; a horrific or frightening creature.
2. A marvelous or portentous occasion; a strange happening.
3. (rare) Fate, luck; fortuitousness (as an allegorical figure)

• monstruous

• English: monster
• Scots: monster

• “monstre (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-03.

From Old French monstre.

monstre m (plural monstres)

1. monster
   • 1542, Clement Marot, Oeuvres augmentees d'ung grand nombre de ses compositions nouvelles, link

     Vien à l'umbrage en ce boys de grand' monstre

     Came into the shadow in these woods of a great monster

• French: monstre

From Old French monstre, borrowed from Latin mōnstrum.

monstre m (plural monstres)

1. (Jersey) monster

• divèrs

Borrowed from Latin mōnstrum.

monstre m (oblique plural monstres, nominative singular monstres, nominative plural monstre)

1. monster

• Middle English: monstre (borrowed)
  • English: monster
• Middle French: monstre
  • French: monstre
• Norman: monstre