lièvre

Inherited from Middle French lievre, from Old French lievre, from Latin leporem.

• IPA^(key): /ljɛvʁ/

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lièvre m (plural lièvres)

1. hare

   lever un lièvre ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   lièvre arctique ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   lièvre brun ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   lièvre d'Europe ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   lièvre du Cap ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   lièvre européen ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. (sports) pacesetter, pacemaker, pacer

Sometimes feminine in Meridional French by the influence from Occitan lèbre, or by analogy with other feminine nouns in -e.

• lévrier

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

• levier
• livrée
• réveil

Inherited from Old French lievre, from Latin leporem.

lièvre m (plural lièvres)

1. (Jersey) hare