frottis

French

Etymology

From frotter +‎ -is.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁɔ.ti/

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Noun

frottis m (plural frottis)

1. (medicine) smear, smear test

Descendants

• → Catalan: frotis

Further reading

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

Interlingua

Noun

frottis (uncountable)

1. A scraped or smeared sample.