légume
Appearance
See also: legume
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin legūmen (cf. older form lesgum); was once feminine and became masculine by the 17th century. Replaced the Old French leün, which was inherited from the same source. Compare Italian and Portuguese legume, Spanish legumbre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]légume m (plural légumes)
- (cooking) vegetable
- Synonym: (Cajun French) épi
- Manger des légumes est très bon pour la santé.
- Eating vegetables is very good for one's health.
- (figuratively, informal, offensive) vegetable, cabbage (someone in a vegetative state)
- Depuis qu’il a eu un accident de voiture, il ressemble à un vrai légume.
- Since his car accident he has turned into a complete vegetable.
- (botany, dated) legume; pod
- Synonym: gousse
- Le fruit de la vesce est un légume au sens strict.
- The seed of vetch is a legume in the strict sense of the word.
- (figuratively, informal) couch potato
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: legume
Further reading
[edit]- “légume”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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