entrailles

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French

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Etymology

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From the plural of Old French entraille, from Early Medieval Latin intrālia (attested in the Reichenau Glossary), from Latin interanea, from interaneus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɑ̃.tʁaj/
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Noun

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entrailles f pl (plural only)

  1. entrails, bowels, guts
  2. (literary) womb
    le fruit de vos entrailles est béniblessed is the fruit of thy womb
  3. (figuratively) bowels, depths
    dans les entrailles de la Terredown in the bowels of the Earth

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Old French

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Noun

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entrailles f

  1. oblique/nominative plural of entraille