gouffre

From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin colpus, colfus, culfus, from Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos). It is possible that French did not receive the word from the Latin intermediate but rather borrowed it directly from Greeks around the Mediterranean coast. Doublet of golfe.

• IPA^(key): /ɡufʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ufʁ

gouffre m (plural gouffres)

1. pit or shaft cave, pothole

   Synonym: aven

2. chasm

   Synonym: abîme

• gouffre on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

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