suppositoire
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sy.po.zi.twaʁ/
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Noun
suppositoire m (plural suppositoires)
- suppository
Further reading
- “suppositoire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Alternative forms
- suppositorie (Anglo-Norman)
- suppositoyre (Anglo-Norman)
Etymology
Attested at least as early as 1377 in Bernard de Gordon's Fleur de lys en medecine. Borrowed from Latin suppositorium.
Noun
suppositoire m (oblique plural suppositoires, nominative singular suppositoires, nominative plural suppositoire)
- suppository