meurtre
French
Etymology
From Middle French meurtre (“murder”) from Old French murtre, mordre (“murder”) (compare Medieval Latin murdrum (“murder”)), both from Frankish *murþar (“murder”) from Proto-Germanic *murþrą (“murder, killing, death”), from Proto-Indo-European *mrtro- (“murder, death”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”).
Akin to Old High German mord (“murder”) (German Mord), Old High German murdren (“to kill, murder”) (German mördern (“to murder”)), Old English morþor (“death, murder”), Old English myrþrian (“to murder”). More at murder.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mœʁtʁ/
Audio (file)
Noun
meurtre m (plural meurtres)
- murder
Related terms
- au meurtre !
- meurtrier
- meurtrir
Further reading
- “meurtre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Noun
meurtre m (plural meurtres)
- murder (deliberate killing)
Norman
Etymology
From Old French murtre, mordre (“murder”), from Frankish *murþar (“murder”) from Proto-Germanic *murþrą (“murder, killing, death”), from Proto-Indo-European *mrtro- (“murder, death”), from *mer-, *mor-, *mr- (“to die”).
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Noun
meurtre m (plural meurtres)
- (Jersey) murder
- 2010, Mêfie-té des Monstres: Tchiques légendes dé Jèrri, Jersey: Le Don Balleine, L'Office du Jèrriais, →ISBN, page 32:
- I' s'confêssit et fut exétchuté pouor lé meurtre du Seigneu d'Hambye
- He confessed and was executed for the murder of the Lord of Hambye
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