mouton

French mouton (“sheep”)

mouton (plural moutons)

1. (historical) A 14th-century French gold coin, weighing about 70 grains.

From Old French mouton, from Vulgar Latin moltō, from Gaulish *multon-, from Proto-Celtic *moltos.

• IPA^(key): /mu.tɔ̃/

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mouton m (plural moutons)

1. sheep (animal)
2. mutton (meat)
3. (figuratively) lemming, sheep (someone who follows a crowd and succumbs to groupthink)
4. mouton (coin)

• mouton à cinq pattes
• mouton de Panurge
• mouton noir
• saute-mouton

• bélier
• brebis

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

From French mouton (“sheep”)

mouton

1. sheep

From Old French mouton, from Vulgar Latin moltō, from Gaulish *multon-, from Proto-Celtic *moltos.

mouton m (plural moutons)

1. (Jersey) sheep
2. (Jersey) mutton
3. (Jersey) battering ram

• hèrbe à moutons (“sheep's fescue”)
• trêfl'ye à moutons (“black medic”)

• moton
• multon
• multum
• mutun

From Vulgar Latin moltō, from Gaulish *multon-, from Proto-Celtic *moltos.

mouton m (oblique plural moutons, nominative singular moutons, nominative plural mouton)

1. sheep (animal)
2. mutton (meat)

• English: mutton (borrowed)
• French: mouton

From French mouton

mouton

1. sheep

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français