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/ʃɛʁ.ʃœʁ/
Translation
researcher
Word origin
From chercher ('to search'), from Vulgar Latin circare ('to go around, to explore'), from Latin circus ('circle'). The agent suffix -eur marks the person who does the searching.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- circare
Grammar
Examples
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The researcher published his results in an international journal.
vaccin .
Several researchers have been working on this vaccine for years.
chercheuse biologie l' Brest.
She is a marine biology researcher at the University of Brest.
The feminine is chercheuse, used in the third example above; this page is set to masculine gender per site convention for agent nouns, as with professeur and directeur.
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