vrai
French
Etymology
From Old French verai, from the Vulgar Latin *vērācus, from Latin vērāx, from vērus (“true, real”), from Proto-Italic *wēros, from a Proto-Indo-European *weh₁-ros, from *weh₁- (“true”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vʁɛ/
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Adjective
vrai (feminine singular vraie, masculine plural vrais, feminine plural vraies)
- true
- C'est vrai? ― Really?
- real
- Synonyms: réel, authentique
- Antonym: faux
Derived terms
Further reading
- “vrai” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
From Old French verai, from Vulgar Latin *vērācus, from Latin vērāx, from vērus (“true, real”).
Related terms
- vraîment (“truly”)
Synonyms
- estrandes
Derived terms
- bèr à vrai m (“vraic cradle”)
- frouque à vrai f (“vraic fork”)
- galette à vrai f (“vraic bun”)
- pitchelle à vrai f (“vraic anchor”)
- vrai d'vivi m, vrai d'vivyi m (“pondweed”)
- vraiqu'thie f (“vraicing, seaweed-gathering”)
- vraitchaîson f (“vraicing season”)
- vraitcheux m (“vraicqueur, vraic-harvester”)
- vraitchi (“to vraic”)
- vrai v'nant, vrai v'nu
- vrégeais m, brêgeais m, brîngeais m (“bladder wrack; toothed wrack, serrated wrack; egg wrack, knotted wrack”)
- pliat vrai
- vrai à cliouques
- vrai taillais
- vrégîn
Related terms
- bédaine f, bédanne f (“bladder wrack”)
- couèrte f (“pile of vraic”)
- crachet m, cracot m, crochet m (“channelled wrack; egg wrack, knotted wrack”)
- êcappillon m (“loose vraic”)
- fieilli, fieillu (“leafy”, adjective)
- graîsse f (“vraic used as fertilizer”)
- litchet, litchîn
- plîse m (“grass-wrack, sea-wrack, eelgrass; small vraic washed up”)
- râtchet, râtchîn
- taillaison f (“vraicing season”)
- courtîn
- mèr
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