l'
/a.lɛʁt/
Translation
alert, alarm, warning; (as an adjective) sprightly
Word origin
From Italian all'erta ('on the lookout'), literally 'on the height', from erta ('steep slope'), from Latin erigere ('to raise up'). It entered French as a soldier's cry and became first an adverb, then a noun and an adjective.
- Origin
- Italian
- Root
- all'erta
- English cognates
- alert, erect
Grammar
Examples
L' .
The alarm was raised at around midnight.
.
The fire brigade has been on alert since this morning.
météo .
A weather warning has been issued across the whole region.
' ' .
It was only a false alarm.
-vingts , .
At eighty, she is still very sprightly.
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