cerf

Inherited from Middle French cerf, from Latin cervus.

• IPA^(key): (usually) /sɛʁ/, (rarely) /sɛʁf/

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• Homophones: cerfs (general), serre, serrent, serres, sers, sert (usual form only), serf, serfs (some speakers)

cerf m (plural cerfs, feminine biche)

1. a stag, a hart

• “cerf” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “cerf” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “cerf”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin cervus.

cerf

1. deer

From Old French cerf, from Latin cervus.

cerf m (plural cerfs, feminine singular biche, feminine plural biches)

1. a stag, a hart

• langue de cerf

From Latin cervus.

cerf oblique singular, m (oblique plural cers, nominative singular cers, nominative plural cerf)

1. deer (animal)

• Middle French: cerf

Back-formation from cerfio (“to carve”).

• IPA^(key): /kɛrv/

cerf f (plural cerfiau)

1. (art) carving

• cerflun (“statue”)
• cerfwedd (“relief”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cerf”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies