rauque

Inherited from Old French raucus, borrowed from Latin raucus. Cf. also enrouer.

• IPA^(key): /ʁoːk/

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• Rhymes: -ok

rauque (plural rauques)

1. hoarse, raspy (afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice)

   voix rauque ― raspy voice

• rauquement

rauque

1. inflection of rauquer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

Borrowed from Latin raucus. Compare the inherited ro.

rauque m (oblique and nominative feminine singular rauque)

1. hoarse (afflicted by a dry, quite harsh voice)

• French: rauque