gouffre
French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin colpus, colfus, culfus, from Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos). It is possible that French did not receive the word from the Latin intermediate but rather borrowed it directly from Greeks around the Mediterranean coast. Doublet of golfe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡufʁ/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -ufʁ
Noun
gouffre m (plural gouffres)
- pit or shaft cave, pothole
- Synonym: aven
- chasm
- Synonym: abîme
Derived terms
- au bord du gouffre
References
gouffre on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Further reading
- “gouffre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.