lacouverture
feminine
/ku.vɛʁ.tyʁ/
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Translation
blanket; cover; coverage
Word origin
From couvrir ('to cover'), from Latin cooperire ('to cover up'), plus the suffix -ure. The same root gives English 'cover' and 'coverture'.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- cooperire
- English cognates
- cover
Grammar
Genderfeminine
Pluralcouvertures
Examples
, supplémentaire.
It is cold, take an extra blanket.
.
The cover of this book is beautiful.
réseau .
The network coverage is bad in this village.
L' ' endormi .
The child fell asleep under a blue blanket.
scandale.
The newspaper ran its front cover on the scandal.
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