couard
French
Etymology
From Old French cuard, corresponding to cüe, coue (compare French queue) + -ard.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwaʁ/
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Adjective
couard (feminine couarde, masculine plural couards, feminine plural couardes)
- (archaic or literary) cowardly
Derived terms
- couardement
- couardise
Noun
couard m (plural couards, feminine couarde)
- coward
Descendants
- → Portuguese: cobarde, covarde
- → Spanish: cobarde
Further reading
- “couard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.