hebdomadaire

French

Etymology

From Latin hebdomadārius, from Latin hebdomas (English hebdomad), from Ancient Greek ἑβδομάς (hebdomás, seven, group of seven).

Pronunciation

  • (mute h) IPA(key): /ɛb.dɔ.ma.dɛːʁ/ [1]
  • (file)

Adjective

hebdomadaire (plural hebdomadaires)

  1. weekly
    • 1857, Phillippe Athanase Cucheval-Clarigny, Histoire de la presse en Angleterre et aux États-Unis, page 472:
      M. Willis est aujourd’hui le directeur de la Feuille du foyer (Home Journal), journal hebdomadaire qui se publie à New-York et qui est consacré presque exclusivement à la littérature.
      Mr Willis is today the director of the Home Journal, a weekly newspaper which is published in New York and which is dedicated almost exclusively to literature.

Derived terms

Noun

hebdomadaire m (plural hebdomadaires)

  1. weekly magazine

Synonyms

See also

References

  1. hebdomadaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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