fluet

French

Etymology

Alteration of earlier flouet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fly.ɛ/

Adjective

fluet (feminine fluette, masculine plural fluets, feminine plural fluettes)

1. slender, slim, skinny
2. (of a sound, voice etc.) weak, thin, narrow

Further reading

• “fluet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

fluet

1. third-person singular future active indicative of fluō

Old French

Noun

fluet oblique singular, m (oblique plural fluez or fluetz, nominative singular fluez or fluetz, nominative plural fluet)

1. Alternative form of flot