couvée
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French covée (“brood (of chickens), clutch”), a noun use of the feminine past participle of couver (“to brood (an egg)”), from Latin cubāre, the present active infinitive of cubō (“to lie down, recline; to incubate; to be broody”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- (“to lie down”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
couvée f (plural couvées)
Participle[edit]
couvée f sg
Further reading[edit]
- “couvée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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- French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱewb-
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