flûte

flûte

See also: flute and flûté

French

Alternative forms

• flute (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

From Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flyt/

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Noun

flûte f (plural flûtes)

1. (music) flute (musical instrument)

Derived terms

• flûte à bec
• flûte de Pan
• flûte traversière

 

Descendants

• → Italian: flute, flûte
• → Luxembourgish: Flütt
• → Walloon: flûte

Interjection

flûte

1. blow!, drat! (mildly impolite interjection)

   Synonym: zut

Further reading

• “flûte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French flûte, from Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut. Doublet of flauto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈflut/, (careful style) /ˈflyt/[1][2]
• Rhymes: -ut

Noun

flûte m or (in specialist contexts) f (invariable)[3]

1. flute (type of glass)

   Synonyms: flute, fluttino

References

1. flute in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
2. flûte in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
3. D'Achille, Paolo (19 October 2015), “Beviamo lo spumante nel flûte o nella flûte [We drink in the flute (masculine) or in the flute (feminine)?]”, in Accademia della Crusca, editor, Consulenza linguistica [Linguistic consultancy] (in Italian), Accademia della Crusca, published 2015, archived from the original on 2018-01-29, retrieved 12 January 2019

Walloon

Etymology

Borrowed from French flûte, from Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flauto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flyːt/

Noun

flûte f (plural flûtes)

1. flute (musical instrument)

Derived terms

• flûte di triviè
• pitite flûte