entrailles
French
Etymology
From the plural of Old French entraille, from Early Medieval Latin intrālia (attested in the Reichenau Glossary), from Latin interanea, from interaneus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.tʁaj/
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Noun
entrailles f pl (plural only)
- entrails, bowels, guts
- (literary) womb
- le fruit de vos entrailles est béni ― blessed is the fruit of thy womb
- (figuratively) bowels, depths
- dans les entrailles de la Terre ― down in the bowels of the Earth
See also
Further reading
- “entrailles”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Old French
Noun
entrailles f
- oblique/nominative plural of entraille