vapeur

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /va.pœʁ/
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Etymology 1

Middle French, from Old French, borrowed from Latin vapor.

Noun

vapeur f (plural vapeurs)

  1. steam
  2. vapour
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Etymology 2

From Etymology 1 of vapeur.

Noun

vapeur m (plural vapeurs)

  1. steamship

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Further reading


Old French

Alternative forms

Noun

vapeur f (oblique plural vapeurs, nominative singular vapeur, nominative plural vapeurs)

  1. vapor
    • 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 155 of this essay:
      elle se eschauffe et amoistit pour les vapeurs
      It heats up and becomes moist by the vapors

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (vapeur, supplement)
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