hypermarché

French

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ marché, mid-1960s.[1][2]

Pronunciation

^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /i.pɛʁ.maʁ.ʃe/
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Noun

hypermarché m (plural hypermarchés)

hypermarket
- Cherry Jones as Nan Pierce (2023), 42:37 from the start, in Succession, season 4, episode 1: “I got a taste for hypermarché vin ordinaire when I was 19 years old and I have never been able to shake it.”

Related terms

Descendants

→ English: hypermarket (calque)

References

“1963: Carrefour invente l'hypermarché "à la française"”, in Le Monde‎ (in French), 2013 June 27
Grimmeau, Jean-Pierre (2013 June 10) “A forgotten anniversary: the first European hypermarkets open in Brussels in 1961”, in Brussels Studies (in French), number 67, →DOI, →ISSN

Further reading

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

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