lutte

See also: lutté

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, from Late Latin lucta, from Latin luctor (“to wrestle”). Compare Italian lotta, Spanish lucha and Romanian luptă.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /lyt/
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  • (Quebec) IPA(key): [lʏt]
  • Homophones: lûtes, luttent, luttes

Noun

lutte f (plural luttes)

  1. (literally or figuratively) struggle, fight, battle
    La lutte contre le capitalisme
    The struggle against capitalism
    • 1923, Marcel Proust, chapter 1, in La Prisonnière [The Prisoner] (À la recherche du temps perdu)‎:
      Heureux ceux qui le comprennent assez tôt pour ne pas trop prolonger une lutte inutile, épuisante […]
      Happy are they who understand in time not to prolong a useless, exhausting struggle […]
  2. (sports) wrestling

Derived terms

Verb

lutte

  1. inflection of lutter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

See also

Further reading

Norwegian Nynorsk

Participle

lutte

  1. definite singular of lutt
  2. plural of lutt

Verb

lutte

  1. past tense of luta and lute

Pali

Alternative forms
Alternative forms
  • 𑀮𑀼𑀢𑁆𑀢𑁂 (Brahmi script)
  • लुत्ते (Devanagari script)
  • লুত্তে (Bengali script)
  • ලුත‍්තෙ (Sinhalese script)
  • လုတ္တေ or လုတ်တေ (Burmese script)
  • ลุตฺเต or ลุตเต (Thai script)
  • ᩃᩩᨲ᩠ᨲᩮ (Tai Tham script)
  • ລຸຕ຺ເຕ or ລຸຕເຕ (Lao script)
  • លុត្តេ (Khmer script)
  • 𑄣𑄪𑄖𑄴𑄖𑄬 (Chakma script)

Adjective

lutte

  1. locative singular masculine/neuter, vocative singular feminine and accusative plural masculine of lutta, which is past passive participle of lumpati (“to break”)
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