foule

Signification

Noun

1. crowd
2. the thronging of a crowd
3. a great number, multitude, mass; host

Verb

1. inflection of fouler:
2. inflection of fouler:

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ful/

Étymologie

Inherited from Middle French foule (“group of men, people collectively”), alteration (due to Middle French foule (“act of treading”)) of Old French foulc (“people, multitude, crowd, troop”), from Early Medieval Latin fulcus, from Frankish *folc, *fulc (“crowd, multitude, people”), from Proto-Germanic *fulką (“collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Cognate with Old High German folc (“people collectively, nation”), Old English folc (“common people, troop, multitude”). More at folk.
For the loss of c after l, compare Old French mareschal, seneschal, etc.

Phrases

Je regardais la foule disparate , parfois anxieuse , toujours pressée .

I watched the disparate crowd, sometimes anxious, always in a hurry.