aigle
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French aigle, from Old French aigle, itself either borrowed from Old Occitan aigla or taken from Latin aquila, though not as a popular term. Cf. the Old French and regional form aille, which may be popularly inherited.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛɡl/
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Noun
aigle m (plural aigles)
Usage notes
- The term aigle doesn't have a one-to-one translation between French and English. Some species known as eagles in English are known as pygargues in French.
Noun
aigle f (plural aigles)
Further reading
- “aigle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Etymology
Either borrowed from Old Occitan aigla or taken from Latin aquila. Cf. the variant form aille, which may be popularly inherited.
Noun
aigle oblique singular, m (oblique plural aigles, nominative singular aigles, nominative plural aigle)
- eagle (animal)
- 1260–1267, Brunetto Latini, “De tous Faucons [On all falcons]” (chapter 150), Book 5, in Livres dou Tresor [Book of Treasures]; republished as Polycarpe Chabaille, compiler, Li livres dou tresor par Brunetto Latini, Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1863, page 203:
- La sisisme ligne est sourpoins. Cist est molt grans, et resemble aigle blanche, mais des oilz et des eles et dou bec est il semblables au girfaut
- The sixth kind [of falcon] is the saker. It is very large, and resembles the white eagle; but in the eyes, and in the wings, and in the beak, it is similar to the gyrfalcon
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English egle, from Anglo-Norman egle, from Old French aigle, from Latin aquila.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈeɡl/
References
- “aigle, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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