Feminine
❄️
neige
- (feminine) snow, crystalline frozen precipitation
- (feminine, informal) cocaine, crack
- (feminine) snow, pattern of dots seen on an untuned television set
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/nɛʒ/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle French nege, naige (14th c.), deverbal from neiger (“to snow”). Displaced related Old French noif, from Latin nix, nivem.
Related words
pull the wool over someone’s eyes
heavy snow
snow-clad
C. P. Snow
Baron Snow of Leicester
Charles Percy Snow
play false
belle dame
le Canada
Nivométrie
chute de neiges
fée blanche
la fée blanche
la douce
chute de neige
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