écrou

nut (that fits on a bolt), female screw

Pronounced as (IPA)

/e.kʁu/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French: escroue

Inherited from Old French: escroe

Inherited from Latin: scrōfa

Cognate with Occitan: escrofa

Cognate with Sicilian: scrufina

Inherited from Middle French: escrou

Cognate with Middle Dutch: scrōde

Cognate with Dutch: schrooien

Cognate with English: escrow

In summary

Masculinized form from Middle French escroue, from Old French escroe, from Latin scrōfa, originally “sow (female pig)”; compare Occitan escrofa (“screw nut”), Sicilian scrufina (“screw nut”). The change in meaning is also found in Spanish puerca, Portuguese porca, both “sow; screw nut”, and is based on the fact that a boar's penis has a screw-like tip, making the sow's vulva equivalent to a screw nut by analogy.

Concepts

nut

female screw

crank

en

freak

fruitcake

junkie

junky

screw

screwball

screw nut

Nut

nut case

addict

nut-screw

crackpot

Synonyms

noix

coque

🐚

couille

en

excentrique

folle

fou

matrice

toxicomane

vis

cake

fruit à coque

manivelle

mutter

schraubenmutter

accro

walnut

boulon

Translations

tuerca

Mutter

👩‍🍼

moer

👩‍🍼

dado

💀

porca

nakrętka

Schraubenmutter

madrevite

παξιμάδι

somun

schroefmoer

escrofa

moerschroef

rosca

immatricolazione al carcere