dryade

dryade (plural dryades)

1. Obsolete form of dryad.

• yarded, yadder, red day, dready

Borrowed from French dryade, from Latin dryas, from Ancient Greek δρυάς (druás).

• IPA^(key): /ˌdriˈaː.də/

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• Hyphenation: dry‧a‧de
• Rhymes: -aːdə

dryade f (plural dryaden or dryades)

1. dryad

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From Old French driade (“wood nymph”), from Latin Dryadem (“dryad”), from Ancient Greek Δρυάς (Druás, “dryad”), from δρῦς (drûs, “oak”), from Proto-Indo-European *derew(o)- (“tree, wood”); cf. Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

• IPA^(key): /dʁi.jad/

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• Homophone: dryades
• Hyphenation: dry‧ade

dryade f (plural dryades)

1. (Greek mythology) dryad
2. (ecology) forest tree, sciaphilous in young state

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