arctique

Inherited from Old French arctique, borrowed from Latin arcticus.

• IPA^(key): (usual pronunciation) /aʁ.tik/
• IPA^(key): (careful speech) /aʁk.tik/

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arctique (plural arctiques)

1. (geography, relational) of the Arctic; Arctic

• The letter "c" is usually mute in common speech (since spoken French strongly tends to avoid consonant clusters with more than two elements), but is pronounced (more or less intentionally) in careful speech.

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

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