Wiktionary:Requested entries (French)/A-L

A

air varié
afanaf
allivrable
arpitanisme
Arve - a French tributary of the Rhône
antidéveloppée
A° - capitalized form of a° at the beginning of a sentence? abbreviation of anno (similar to n° for numero)? [books.google.com.au/books?id=1Hw7AAAAcAAJ&pg=RA2-PA142&dq=repositoire&hl=en Musée historique de Neuchâtel et Valangin]: "A° 1511, 24 septembre."
à croire que - Something like "as though", "such that one would think". Seen in Michel Tournier's Amandine (in Coq de Bruyère): "(...) il (a cat's stomach, ed.) était devenu tout plat à croire que les quatre petits (some kittens, ed.) y étaient enfermés et venaient d'en suppsortir!"__Gamren (talk) 16:44, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Wow, I made not one, but two reproduction errors. Embarrassing.__Gamren (talk) 20:34, 3 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
adpromission: presumably related to English adpromissor
arduité
Anglo-Normand, with capitals. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:40, 1 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
anchère older form of enchère in nouvelle anchère (reauction?). sarri.greek (talk) 21:00, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see any evidence of this form outside of a Greek dictionary. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 12:49, 2 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
aouh! - another interjection; can be found in G.Books
arrière-monde - "Hinterwelt", in a Nietzschean sense?__Gamren (talk) 18:27, 26 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
amilitant – "In forming or in joining an affinity group, individuals become what can be called 'amilitants' (in French). This new concept simultaneously evokes an amalgam of the role of the friend – ami in French – and of the militant, as well as a certain repudiation of traditional militancy, insofar as the prefix 'a' indicates negation." Francis Dupuis-Déri, "Anarchism and the Politics of Affinity Groups," Anarchist Studies 18(1), 2010, p. 47.
Apparently coined here: [1]. Uses are scarce. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 18:43, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
arbalestre, arbalestres, arbalestre à tour
avoir du cœur au ventre - to be courageous
n’avoir rien à se mettre sous la dent - in French Wiktionary
avoir quelque chose à se mettre sous la dent - in French Wiktionary
à la fortune du pot
aspirail
aller à contre-bord
avoir l’oreille basse - to get egg on one's face?
Arcansas - from the etymology of Arkansas
Aiouez - from the etymology of Iowa
air à boire
amplectif
à peine ... que
archiptère
arçonner
aréisme
arrêtiste
au plat - fried egg, oeuf(s) au plat
à l’
aschérim
auque: 1. auca (type of comic); 2. old word for a thingy/unspecified object?
auvers
Amicia (medieval female given name from latin, "amice")
Abricotier de Briançon
afonner - mentioned in French -t-