cerveau

Meaning

brain

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sɛʁ.vo/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French cerveau, cervel, from Old French cervel, from Latin cerebellum, diminutive of cerebrum, from Proto-Italic *kerazrom, from a Proto-Indo-European form *ḱerh₂-s-ro, from the root *ḱerh₂- (“head”).

Sentences

Puis une idée lui traversa le cerveau .

Then an idea crossed his brain.

Cependant , le Comte ne désespère pas de ramener son cerveau à la vie .

However, the Count does not despair of bringing his brain back to life.

Aussi appelé cerveau antérieur , le prosencéphale se subdivise en diencéphale et télencéphale .

Also called the anterior brain, the prosencephalon is subdivided into the diencephalon and telencephalon.