Feminine
couvée
couvé
past participle of couver
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ku.ve/
Etymology
In summary
From Old French covée (“brood (of chickens), clutch”), a noun use of the feminine past participle of couver (“to brood (an egg)”), from Latin cubāre, the present active infinitive of cubō (“to lie down, recline; to incubate; to be broody”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (“to lie down”).
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