thermidor
See also: Thermidor
French
Etymology
From Ancient Greek θέρμη (thérmē, “heat”) + δῶρον (dôron, “gift”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɛʁ.mi.dɔʁ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔʁ
Noun
thermidor m (plural thermidors)
- (historical) Thermidor (the eleventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
- Synonym: (obsolete) fervidor
- 2017, w:Condoleezza Rice, Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom. New York: Grand Central Publishing. p. 23.
- The term thermidor is associated with the French Revolution and the arrested democratization that followed the Reign of Terror and led to an emperor.
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Further reading
- “thermidor” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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