veuf

Inherited from Old French, from Latin viduus, through a Vulgar Latin *viduvus.

• IPA^(key): /vœf/

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• Rhymes: -œf

veuf m (plural veufs, feminine veuve)

1. widower (a man whose wife has died and who has not remarried)

veuf (feminine veuve, masculine plural veufs, feminine plural veuves)

1. widowed
2. odd (missing its pair)

   une chaussette veuve ― an odd sock

• veuve

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