huître
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See also: huitre
French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French uistre, oistre, from Latin ostrea, from Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon). The h is unetymological (no h in the Latin ostrea), but it used to disambiguate the pronunciation in the times when u and v were variants of the same letter, cf. huit, huile.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (mute h) IPA(key): /ɥitʁ/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -itʁ
- IPA(key): (Louisiana) /zwit/
- Homophones: huitre, huitres, huîtres
Noun[edit]
huître f (plural huîtres)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “huître”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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