Feminine

entrailles

Meaning

  1. (feminine, plural, plural-only) entrails, bowels, guts
  2. (feminine, literary, plural, plural-only) womb
  3. (feminine, figuratively, plural, plural-only) bowels, depths

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɑ̃.tʁaj/
Etymology

In summary

From the plural of Old French entraille, from Early Medieval Latin intrālia (attested in the Reichenau Glossary), from Latin interanea, from interaneus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.

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