gouverneur
See also: Gouverneur
Dutch
Alternative forms
- (before 1996) goeverneur
Etymology
From Middle Dutch gouverneur, borrowed from Middle French gouverneur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɣu.vərˈnøːr/, /ˌɣu.vɛrˈnøːr/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: gou‧ver‧neur
- Rhymes: -øːr
Noun
gouverneur m (plural gouverneurs, diminutive gouverneurtje n)
- governor (e.g. of a province)
Derived terms
- gouverneurspaleis
Related terms
- gouvernement
Descendants
- Afrikaans: goewerneur
- Negerhollands: guwerneer
- → Arawak: gouverneur
- → Indonesian: gubernur
French
Etymology
From Middle French gouverneur, from Old French gouvreneur, from Latin gubernator, from Ancient Greek κυβερνήτης (kubernḗtēs, “steersman, pilot, guide”), from κυβερνάω (kubernáō, “to steer, to drive, to guide, to act as a pilot”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡu.vɛʁ.nœʁ/
Noun
gouverneur m (plural gouverneurs, feminine gouverneure or gouverneuse)
- governor
Derived terms
- gouverneur général
Related terms
- gouvernement (“government”)
Descendants
- Antillean Creole: gouvènè
- Louisiana Creole French: gouvènœr, gouvnœr, gouvèrnè, gouvèrnen, gouvèrnèr
- Seychellois Creole: gouverner
- → Czech: guvernér
- → Danish: guvernør
- → Estonian: kuberner
- → Faroese: guvernørur
- → German: Gouverneur
- → Luxembourgish: Gouverneur
- → Macedonian: гувернер (guverner)
- → Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: guvernør
- Norwegian Nynorsk: guvernør
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гувернер
- Latin: guverner
- → Slovak: guvernér
- → Slovene: guverner
- → Swedish: guvernör
- → Finnish: kuvernööri
- → Turkish: guvernör
Further reading
- “gouverneur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French gouvreneur.
Noun
gouverneur m (plural gouverneurs)
- governor
Related terms
- gouvernement
Descendants
- French: gouverneur (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle Dutch: gouverneur
- Dutch: gouverneur
- Afrikaans: goewerneur
- Negerhollands: guwerneer
- → Arawak: gouverneur
- → Indonesian: gubernur
- Limburgish: goevernäör
- Dutch: gouverneur
- → German: Gouverneur