Masculine

étron

Meaning

Concepts

turd, crap, fecal matter

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/e.tʁɔ̃/

Inherited from Middle French

Inherited from Old French

Cognate with Dutch

Cognate with Western Frisian

Cognate with English

Cognate with Middle High German

Cognate with Italian

Cognate with Luxembourgish

Cognate with Swedish

In summary

Inherited from Middle French étront, from Old French estront, from Late Latin struntus, borrowed from Frankish *strunt, from Proto-Germanic *strunt- (“stump”), from *strent- (“to be stiff”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter- (“stiff”). Compare Dutch stront (“feces, turd”), West Frisian stront, English strunt (“tail”), Middle High German strunze (“stump”), Italian stronzo, Luxembourgish strëllchen, dialectal Swedish strunt (“a bud, sprout, offshoot”).