hypermarché

French

Etymology

hyper- +‎ marché, mid-1960s.[1][2]

Pronunciation

^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /i.pɛʁ.maʁ.ʃe/
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Noun

hypermarché m (plural hypermarchés)

hypermarket

Related terms

Descendants

→ English: hypermarket (calque)

References

“1963: Carrefour invente l'hypermarché "à la française"”, in Le Monde‎ (in French), 2013-06-27
Grimmeau, Jean-Pierre (10 June 2013), “A forgotten anniversary: the first European hypermarkets open in Brussels in 1961”, in Brussels Studies (in French), issue 67, →DOI, →ISSN

Further reading

“hypermarché”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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