geôle

From Middle French geole, from Old French gaiole, from Vulgar Latin *caveola (perhaps through a Medieval Latin gabiola), a diminutive of Latin cavea. The circumflex on the o is not etymological (no elided letter) and is probably to represent the vowel sound /o/.

• IPA^(key): /ʒol/

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geôle f (plural geôles)

1. jail, prison, gaol

• prison

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

• éloge, logée