chaleur
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French chalor, from Latin calōrem m.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃa.lœʁ/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -œʁ
Noun
chaleur f (plural chaleurs)
- (temperature) heat
- Il craint la chaleur. ― Keep out of the heat. (literally, “He fears the heat”)
- heat (a state of sexual aggression)
- Les lapins sont en chaleur. ― The rabbits are in heat.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “chaleur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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