puy

Meaning

mountain, hill

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɥi/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French puy, from Old French puy (“hill, height”), pui, from Latin podium. Its current use as a regionalism referring to certain geographic features may be taken at least in part from Franco-Provençal; cf. also Occitan puèg and Catalan puig. In Old French, it had a somewhat different or more varied set of meanings (cf. also the feminine puie, puye, poye (“balustrade”), whence English pew through Anglo-Norman), later coming to be applied to mountains and hills especially in the Auvergne region and Massif Central, the remains of extinct volcanoes. Doublet of the later borrowing podium.

Sentences

En France , l'imago est répertoriée sur les pentes du Puy de Sancy en Juin .

In France, the imago is listed on the slopes of Puy de Sancy in June.