anchois

Inherited from Old French [Term?], from Old Occitan anchoia (modern Occitan anchòia), from Ligurian anciôa, from Vulgar Latin *apiuva, from Latin aphyē (“small fry”), from Ancient Greek ἀφύη (aphúē).

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ʃwa/
• Rhymes: -a

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• Hyphenation: an‧chois

anchois m (plural anchois)

1. (zoology) anchovy (small saltwater fish)

• anchoïade

• → Bulgarian: аншоа́ (anšoá)
• → Luxembourgish: Anchois
• → Polish: anchois
• → Romanian: anșoa

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

Unadapted borrowing from French anchois. First attested in 1856.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ã.ʂuˈa/

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• Rhymes: -ua
• Syllabification: an‧cho‧is

anchois n (indeclinable)

1. anchovy (small, common saltwater forage fish in the family Engraulidae that are used as human food and fish bait)

• anchois in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• anchois in PWN's encyclopedia