cloporte
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Likely from clore (“to close”) + porte (“door”), from its habit of rolling into a ball. Another possible derivation is from an unattested *croteporque, mirrored in Occitan porquet de crota (“woodlouse”, literally “cave-pig”). In any case, the analysis in the first proposal is probably responsible for the figurative extension of the word to "porter, concierge".
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cloporte m (plural cloportes)
- woodlouse
- (slang) porter, concierge
- (derogatory) worthless person, vermin; creep
- (metonymically) hermit
Further reading
[edit]- “cloporte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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