rainure
See also: rainuré
French
Etymology
From Old French roisner + -ure, from Vulgar Latin *rucina, borrowed from Gaulish *rucina, in turn borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥῠκάνη (rhukánē, “plane, a carpenter's tool”). According to Beekes[1], the word is likely of Pre-Greek origin, and probably the source for Latin runcīna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁɛ.nyʁ/, /ʁe.nyʁ/
Noun
rainure f (plural rainures)
- groove
Descendants
- → Portuguese: ranhura
- → Spanish: ranura
- → Catalan: ranura
References
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1293
Further reading
- “rainure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- réunira, ruinera, urinera