extrême
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French extreme, extrême, borrowed from Latin extrēmus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]extrême (plural extrêmes)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Turkish: ekstrem
Noun
[edit]extrême m (plural extrêmes)
- extreme
- d’un extrême à un autre ― from one extreme to another
- Les extrêmes se touchent. ― Extremes meet.
- En désespoir de cause, la population se tourne vers les extrêmes.
- Out of desperation, the population is turning to [political] extremes.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “extrême”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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