millénaire
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin millēnārius.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]millénaire (plural millénaires)
- millennial, thousand-year-old
Noun
[edit]millénaire m (plural millénaires)
- millennium (thousand years)
- 1994, Michel Houellebecq, Extension du domaine de la lutte [Extension of the Field of Struggle]:
- Et peu à peu le visage de la mort apparaît, dans toute sa splendeur. Le troisième millénaire s’annonce bien.
- And little by little the face of death appears, in all its splendour. The third millennium is looking good.
Further reading
[edit]- “millénaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- millénaithe (Jersey)
Etymology
[edit]From Latin millēnārius.
Noun
[edit]millénaire m (plural millénaires)
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