moule

• IPA^(key): /mul/

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From Old French modle, an old (11th century) borrowing from Latin modulus (“measure”). Doublet of module, a more recent borrowing.

moule m (plural moules)

1. (art, manufacturing) mould (UK), mold (US)
2. (typography) matrix
3. (cooking) (cake) tin (UK), pan (US)

• moule à gaufres

From Vulgar Latin *mūsclus, from Latin mūsculus. Doublet of muscle.

moule f (plural moules)

1. (zoology) mussel
2. (colloquial) idiot, prat, twit
3. (vulgar, slang, anatomy) cunt

• muscle

Inflected forms.

moule

1. first-person singular present indicative of mouler
2. third-person singular present indicative of mouler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of mouler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of mouler
5. second-person singular imperative of mouler
6. first-person singular present subjunctive of moudre
7. third-person singular present subjunctive of moudre

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

• moucle
• moulle
• mouscle

Latin musculus.

moule f (oblique plural moules, nominative singular moule, nominative plural moules)

1. mussel