nitre

French nitre, Latin nitrum native soda, natron.

• Rhymes: -aɪtə(ɹ)

nitre (countable and uncountable, plural nitres)

1. British spelling standard spelling of niter.
2. (obsolete) native sodium carbonate; natron
   • Bible, Jer. ii. 22

     For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me.

• Terni, Tiner, inert, inter, inter-, niter, riten., terin, trine

• IPA^(key): /nitʁ/

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nitre m (uncountable)

1. (dated) saltpetre (potassium nitrate)

• salpêtre

• nitrer
• nitreux
• nitrique
• nitrate
• nitrater

nitre

1. first-person singular present indicative of nitrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of nitrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of nitrer
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of nitrer
5. second-person singular imperative of nitrer

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

• rient, tenir, terni, Terni