huître

• huitre (1990 spelling reform)

From Old French uistre, oistre, from Latin ostrea, from Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon). The h is unetymological (no h in the Latin ostrea), but it used to disambiguate the pronunciation in the times when u and v were variants of the same letter, cf. huit, huile.

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɥitʁ/

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• Rhymes: -itʁ
• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /zwit/
• Homophones: huitre, huitres, huîtres

huître f (plural huîtres)

1. oyster

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