dryade

dryade (plural dryades)

1. Obsolete form of dryad.

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dryade f (plural dryaden or dryades)

1. dryad

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Old French driade (“wood nymph”), from Latin dryas, dryadis (“dryad”), from Ancient Greek δρυάς (druás, “dryad”), from δρῦς (drûs, “oak”), from Proto-Indo-European *derew(o)- (“tree, wood”); cf. Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

• IPA^(key): /dʁi.jad/
• Homophone: dryades
• Hyphenation: dry‧ade

dryade f (plural dryades)

1. (Greek mythology) dryad
2. (ecology) forest tree, sciaphilous in young state.

• “dryade” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).