sueur

Inherited from Old French suor, suur, from Latin sūdor, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sweyd-.

• IPA^(key): /sɥœʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɥœʁ

sueur f (plural sueurs)

1. sweat, perspiration

   Synonym: transpiration

   • 1972, Henri Vincenot, Le Pape des escargots [The Pope of the Snails], page 290:

     Être poète, c’est trouver parfumée la sueur de la femme qu’on aime.

     To be a poet is to consider as perfumed the sweat of the woman he loves.

• suer
• suaire

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

• usure