rainure
See also: rainuré
French
Etymology
From Old French roisner + -ure, from Vulgar Latin *rucina, borrowed from Gaulish *rucina, in turn borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥῠκάνη (rhukánē, “plane, a carpenter's tool”). According to Beekes[1], the word is likely of Pre-Greek origin, and probably the source for Latin runcīna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁenyʁ/
References
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1293
Further reading
- “rainure” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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