Masculine
🕳️
trou
- (masculine) hole
- (masculine) blank (memory)
- (masculine) pause in conversation
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/tʁu/
Etymology
From Early Medieval Latin traugus, a "barbarous" Latin word first attested in the Ripuarian Law, probably related to torus (“round hill”). Thought to be of Celtic, specifically Gaulish, origin. Related to Catalan and Occitan trauc.
shallow hole
coin perdu
purger sa peine
foramen
bled perdu
partus
peurtu
petit corner
maw
gniouf
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