érable
Appearance
See also: erable
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French airable, from older arable, from Gallic Vulgar Latin or Late Latin acerābulus, from Latin acer (“maple”) + Gaulish *aballo- (“apple-tree”). Compare Old Irish ficabull (“fig-tree”), Welsh criafol (“mountain-ash”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]érable m (plural érables)
- maple
- Le sirop d’érable est récolté dans les forêts du nord-est de l’Amérique du Nord, particulièrement au Québec.
- Maple syrup is harvested in the forests of the northeast of North America, particularly in Quebec.
- La règle générale est donc d’attendre jusqu’à 45 [quarante-cinq] ans après la plantation d’un érable avant de commencer à récolter son eau. Cependant, un érable à sucre peut vivre jusqu’à 300 [trois-cents] ans, voire davantage. Il peut donc donner de l’eau à chaque printemps pendant un grand nombre d’années.
- The general rule is thus to wait until 45 years after the planting of a maple before beginning to harvest its sap. However, a sugar maple can live up to 300 years, [or] even more. It can thus give sap every spring for a great many years.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “érable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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