poudre

From Old French poudre, from Latin pulverem, accusative of pulvis (or possibly through a Vulgar Latin form *pŭlvĕra), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“dust; flour”).

• IPA^(key): /pudʁ/

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poudre f (plural poudres)

1. powder
2. (obsolete) dust

• poussière
• pulvériser

• Greek: πούδρα f (poúdra, “powder”)

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

From Old French poudre, from Latin pulverem, accusative of pulvis.

• powder, pouder, powdre, pouldre, powdir, powdyr, pudre, poudur, poweder, pouþer, powþer, powther, powdur

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuːdər/, /ˈpuːðər/, /ˈpuːdrə/

poudre (plural poudres)

1. powder (a collection of particles):
   1. Dust; powder as a waste products or generated from the remains of something.
   2. Ashes; the matter produced by combustion.
   3. Earth, dirt; the particles that compose soil.
   4. Various powders as used in medicine or alchemy.
   5. Powders used for culinary purposes; spices.
   6. (rare) Gunpowder; black powder.
2. The results of the decomposition of one's corpse.
3. (rare) A speckling; an stippled pattern.

• gunnepoudre
• poudren

• English: powder
• Scots: pouder, pouther

• “pǒudre (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.

From Old French poudrer, from poudre.

poudre

1. Alternative form of poudren

From Latin pulverem, accusative of pulvis. Compare Old Occitan poldra, polvera.

poudre f (oblique plural poudres, nominative singular poudre, nominative plural poudres)

1. powder
2. dust

• pous

• Middle English: poudre
  • English: powder
• French: poudre