la

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

, .

It is cold, take an extra blanket.

The cover of this book is beautiful.

The network coverage is bad in this village.

L' ' .

The child fell asleep under a blue blanket.

The newspaper ran its front cover on the scandal.

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This word is part of lesson 25.