mois
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French moys, from Old French mois, from earlier meis, from Latin mēnsis.
Compare Catalan mes, Italian mese, Occitan mes, Portuguese mês, Romansch mais, Spanish mes.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mois m (plural mois)
- month [from c. 1100]
- (euphemistic, archaic) period, menstruation [1535—early 20th c.]
- Synonym: règles
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mois”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- meis (early Old French or northern dialects)
Etymology
[edit]From earlier meis, from Latin mēnsis.
Noun
[edit]mois oblique singular, m (oblique plural mois, nominative singular mois, nominative plural mois)
Descendants
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- French terms derived from Proto-Italic
- French terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- French terms inherited from Middle French
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
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- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French euphemisms
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- Old French terms inherited from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French masculine nouns