bois

bois

1. plural of boi

• BIOS, Ibos, SIBO, bios, obis, sibo

Inherited from Middle French bois, boys, boiz, from Old French bosc, bois, from Late Latin boscus or Vulgar Latin *buscus, from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”). Compare Italian bosco, Spanish bosque, Portuguese bosque, Dutch bos and English bush.

• IPA^(key): /bwa/, /bwɑ/

bois m (countable and uncountable, plural bois)

1. (uncountable) wood (substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree)
2. (countable) wood (wood of a particular species of tree)
3. (countable) wood, woodland (forested or wooded area)
4. antler (branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk, normally in pairs)
5. (music) woodwind instrument, woodwind

   Coordinate term: cuivre

6. (art) wooden engraving, woodcut
7. (golf) wood (type of club)
8. (nautical, dated) hull

• buisson

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /bwa/
• Homophone: boit

bois

1. inflection of boire:
   1. first/second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular present imperative

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

• bios

bois

1. plural of boi

bois

1. inflection of bos:
   1. dative singular
   2. dual all cases

From buis.

bois

1. tax

• bosc

From Late Latin boscus, Vulgar Latin *buscus, from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈboi̯s/

bois oblique singular, m (oblique plural bois, nominative singular bois, nominative plural bois)

1. woodland; woods

• buison
• boschage

• Bourguignon: boo
• Bourbonnais-Berrichon: bou
• Middle French: bois, boys, boiz
  • French: bois
    • Haitian Creole: bwa
• Gallo: boéz, (Ille, Vilaine) boueil
• Norman: bouais (Jersiais), bwee (Sercquiais)
• Orléanais: boué (Solognot)
• Picard: bôs (Athois), bos (Ch'ti)
• Walloon: bos (Charleroi), bwès (Forrières, Liégeois)
• ⇒ Old French: bousquet, bochet, bouquet
  • Middle French: bouquet, boucquet
    • French: bouquet
      • → English: bouquet
  • Gallo: bóqèt
  • Norman: boûquet
  • Picard: bouqueû, bouqueut
  • Walloon: boukèt

• Hyphenation: bois

bois

1. plural of boi

From buis.

boís

1. tax

• vois

From Latin vōbīs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbois/, [ˈboː.i.zĭ]

bois (possessive bostru)

1. you (plural), ye

   Synonyms: bos, bosateros

• nois (“we”)

bois

1. dative singular of bas

• Also used as nominative.