vipère
See also: vipere
French
Etymology
From Middle French [Term?], from Old French vipre, directly borrowed from Latin vīpera. Displaced an earlier Old French doublet guivre (cf. also French vouivre) and its Old Northern French equivalent wivre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vi.pɛʁ/
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Noun
vipère f (plural vipères)
- viper
- (figuratively) a malignant person
Derived terms
- vipère de la mort
- vipère heurtante
Further reading
- “vipère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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