sœur
Meaning
- sister
- nun
Frequency
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/sœʁ/
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French soeur, from Old French suer (nominative), from Latin soror (cf. also the Old French oblique form seror from the Latin accusative sorōrem), from Proto-Italic *swezōr, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.
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