souffrance
French
Etymology
souffrir + -ance, from Latin sufferentia (“toleration”), from the verb sufferre (“to tolerate”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /su.fʁɑ̃s/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Homophone: souffrances
- Hyphenation: sou‧ffrance
Noun
souffrance f (plural souffrances)
- sufferance, pain
Derived terms
- en souffrance
Further reading
- “souffrance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.