entrailles

French

Etymology

From the plural of Old French entraille, from Vulgar Latin *intralia, from Latin interanea, from interaneus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑ̃.tʁaj/
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Noun

entrailles f pl (plural only)

  1. entrails, bowels, guts
  2. (literary) womb
    le fruit de vos entrailles est béni ― blessed is the fruit of thy womb
  3. (figuratively) bowels, depths
    dans les entrailles de la Terre ― down in the bowels of the Earth

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Noun

entrailles f

  1. oblique/nominative plural of entraille
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