poudre

Inherited from Old French poudre, poldre, from Late Latin pulvera, neuter plural based on Latin pulvis m, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“dust; flour”).

• IPA^(key): /pudʁ/

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poudre f (plural poudres)

1. (obsolete) dust

   Synonym: poussière

2. powder

• poussière
• pulvériser

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

From Old French poudre, ultimately from Latin pulvis.

• powder, pouder, powdre, pouldre, powdir, powdyr, pudre, poudur, poweder, pouþer, powþer, powther, powdur

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuːdər/, /ˈpuːðər/, /ˈpuːdrə/

poudre (plural poudres)

1. powder (a collection of particles):
   1. Dust; powder as a waste products or generated from the remains of something.
   2. Ashes; the matter produced by combustion.
   3. Earth, dirt; the particles that compose soil.
   4. Various powders as used in medicine or alchemy.
   5. Powders used for culinary purposes; spices.
   6. (rare) Gunpowder; black powder.
2. The results of the decomposition of one's corpse.
3. (rare) A speckling; an stippled pattern.

• gunnepoudre
• poudren

• English: powder (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: pouder, pouther
• → Welsh: powdr, powdwr, pwdr

• “pǒudre, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.

poudre

1. Alternative form of poudren

• puldre, pudre, poldre, podre
• polre (Picardy, Lorraine)
• pourre (Champagne)
• poure, pourre

From Late Latin pulvera, neuter plural based on Latin pulvis m, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“dust; flour”). Compare Old Occitan poldra, polvera.

poudre oblique singular, f (oblique plural poudres, nominative singular poudre, nominative plural poudres)

1. powder
2. dust

• pous

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pŭlvis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 561