yvre

Middle French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French yvre, from Latin ēbrius, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁egʷʰ- (“drink”).

Adjective

yvre m or f (plural yvres)

  1. drunk (intoxicated due to alcohol)

Descendants
  • French: ivre

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin ēbrius, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁egʷʰ- (“drink”).

Adjective

yvre m (oblique and nominative feminine singular yvre)

  1. drunk (intoxicated due to alcohol)
  2. (figuratively) intoxicated (with love or emotion)

Descendants

Old Occitan
FWOTD – 26 March 2019

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin ēbrius.

Adjective

yvre

  1. drunk
    • c. 1110, Guilhèm de Peitieus, Canso:
      E no m’en tengatz per yvre / S’ieu ma bona dompna am [...].
      And she doesn't take me for drunk if I love my good lady.
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