sucre

sucre

See also: Sucre and sucré

English

Etymology

Spanish Sucre, from the name of Venezuelan independence leader Antonio José de Sucre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuːkɹeɪ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

sucre (plural sucres)

1. The former currency of Ecuador, divided into 100 centavos.

Anagrams

• Cruse, Cures, crues, cruse, cuers, cures, curse, ecrus

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Catalan

Etymology

From Arabic سُكَّر‎ (sukkar), from Persian شکر‎ (šekar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar”); see sugar for more details.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.kɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.kɾe/

• Audio (Catalonia)

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Noun

sucre m (plural sucres)

1. sugar

Derived terms

• canya de sucre
• ensucrar
• sucre de llustre
• sucre roig
• sucrós

 

Descendants

• → Occitan: sucre
• → Old French: çucre, chucre, sucre, zucre
  • Anglo-Norman: chucre
    • → Cornish: sugra
    • → Middle Irish: siúcra
      • Irish: siúcra
      • Manx: shugyr
      • Scottish Gaelic: siùcar
    • → Welsh: siwgr
  • Middle French: sucre
    • French: sucre
      • Haitian Creole: sik
      • → Danish: sucrose
      • → English: sucrose
      • → Malecite-Passamaquoddy: sukol (or from English)
      • → Mango: súkàr
      • → Rade: sĭk
    • → Middle English: sugre, sewgyr, succer, succere, sucere, sucre, suger, sugowr, sugr, sugur, sugure, sugyr, sugyre, sukyr, zugere, zuker, zukur
      • English: sugar (see there for further descendants)
      • Scots: succar
  • Norman: chucre
  • Walloon: souke
  • → Lithuanian: cukrus
    • → Latgalian: cukrys
    • → Samogitian: sokros
  • → Middle Breton: csucr
    • Breton: sukr
  • → Middle Dutch: suicker, suker
    • Dutch: suiker
      • Afrikaans: suiker
        • → Sotho: tswekere
        • → Xhosa: iswekile
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: sikri
      • Negerhollands: sukker, schukker, suku
        • → Virgin Islands Creole: suku, sukut (dated)
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: sukuru
      • → Aukan: sukuu
      • → Munsee: shóokal
      • → Papiamentu: panseiku
      • → Saramaccan: súki
      • → Sranan Tongo: sukru, suiker
        • → Arawak: shikarho
        • → Caribbean Hindustani: sukru
        • → Galibi Carib: sukuru, sukulu
      • → Unami: shukël (or from English)
    • Limburgish: sókker

Further reading

• “sucre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sucre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “sucre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sucre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Etymology

From Old French çucre, from Old Catalan sucre or Old Italian zuccaro, from Arabic سُكَّر‎ (sukkar), from Persian شکر‎ (šekar), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā, “ground or candied sugar”); see sugar for more details.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sykʁ/

• audio (Paris)

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Noun

sucre m (plural sucres)

1. sugar

Derived terms

• betterave à sucre
• canne à sucre
• casser du sucre sur le dos de
• cuillère à sucre
• pain de sucre
• pur sucre
• sucrage
• sucrant
• sucrase
• sucrate
• sucré
• sucre blanc
• sucre bleu
• sucre de canne
• sucre de plomb
• sucre de pomme
• sucre de saturne
• sucre d’orge
• sucre en poudre
• sucre glace
• sucrer
• sucrerie
• sucre roux
• sucre simple
• sucrette
• sucrier
• sucrière
• sucrin
• susucre
• su-sucre
• tout sucre
• tout sucre et miel
• tout sucre et tout miel
• tout sucre, tout miel

 

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: sik
• → Danish: sucrose
• → English: sucrose
• → Malecite-Passamaquoddy: sukol (or from English)
• → Mango: súkàr
• → Rade: sĭk

Further reading

• “sucre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• crues, crûes, cures, curés, écrus, reçus, sucer

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Middle English

Noun

sucre

1. Alternative form of sugre

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Old French

Noun

sucre m (nominative singular sucres)

1. Alternative form of çucre

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sucre.

Noun

sucre m (plural sucres)

1. sucre

Declension

Declension of sucre

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sucre	sucreul	(niște) sucres	sucresi
genitive/dative	(unui) sucre	sucreului	(unor) sucres	sucreslor
vocative	sucreule		sucreslor

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Spanish

Etymology

From the name of Venezuelan independence leader Antonio José de Sucre.

Noun

sucre m (plural sucres)

1. sucre (former currency of Ecuador)

Further reading

• “sucre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014