truie

French

Etymology

From Late Latin troia, troja, of uncertain origin, but possibly from Latin (porcum de) Troia (“(hog of) Troy”), after the Trojan horse, or alternatively from a Gaulish root *trogja, or possibly simply of imitative origin, from the sound of a pig's grunt. Compare Occitan truèja, Italian troia, Catalan truja.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʁɥi/
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Noun

truie f (plural truies)

sow (female pig)
(derogatory) unclean woman

Hypernyms

Coordinate terms

verrat (boar)

Further reading

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

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