poudre

See also: poudré

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French poudre, poldre, from Late Latin pulvera, neuter plural based on Latin pulvis m, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“dust; flour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pudʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

poudre f (plural poudres)

1. (obsolete) dust

   Synonym: poussière

2. powder

Derived terms

• comme une traînée de poudre
• faire de la poudre
• faire parler la poudre
• lait en poudre
• mettre le feu aux poudres
• ne pas avoir inventé la poudre
• poudre à canon
• poudre à laver
• poudre à lessiver
• poudre aux yeux
• poudre de perlimpinpin
• poudre d’escampette
• poudre Shimosa
• poudrer
• poudrerie
• poudrette
• poudreuse
• poudreux
• prendre la poudre d’escampette
• sucre en poudre

 

Related terms

• poussière
• pulvériser

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: pudra
• → Belarusian: пудра (pudra)
• → Faroese: putur
• → German: Puder
• → Greek: πούδρα (poúdra)
• → Hungarian: púder
• → Macedonian: пудра (pudra)
• → Norwegian: pudder
• → Ottoman Turkish: پودره (pudra)
  • Turkish: pudra
• → Persian: پودر (pudr)
• → Polish: puder
• → Romanian: pudră
• → Russian: пудра (pudra)
• → Serbo-Croatian: puder / пудер
• → Slovene: puder
• → Spanish: puder
• → Swedish: puder
  • → Finnish: puuteri
• → Ukrainian: пудра (pudra)
• → Yiddish: פּודער (puder)

Further reading

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French poudre, ultimately from Latin pulvis.

Alternative forms

• powder, pouder, powdre, pouldre, powdir, powdyr, pudre, poudur, poweder, pouþer, powþer, powther, powdur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuːdər/, /ˈpuːðər/, /ˈpuːdrə/

Noun

poudre (plural poudres)

1. powder (a collection of particles):
   1. Dust; powder as a waste products or generated from the remains of something.
   2. Ashes; the matter produced by combustion.
   3. Earth, dirt; the particles that compose soil.
   4. Various powders as used in medicine or alchemy.
   5. Powders used for culinary purposes; spices.
   6. (rare) Gunpowder; black powder.
2. The results of the decomposition of one's corpse.
3. (rare) A speckling; an stippled pattern.

Derived terms

• gunnepoudre
• poudren

Descendants

• English: powder (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: pouder, pouther
• → Welsh: powdr, powdwr, pwdr

References

• “pǒudre, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-22.

Etymology 2

Verb

poudre

1. Alternative form of poudren

Old French

Alternative forms

• puldre, pudre, poldre, podre
• polre (Picardy, Lorraine)
• pourre (Champagne)
• poure, pourre

Etymology

From Late Latin pulvera, neuter plural based on Latin pulvis m, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“dust; flour”). Compare Old Occitan poldra, polvera.

Noun

poudre oblique singular, f (oblique plural poudres, nominative singular poudre, nominative plural poudres)

1. powder
2. dust

Related terms

• pous

Descendants

Descendants

• French: poudre (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: poudre
• Walloon: poure, poude
• → Middle Dutch: poeder
  • Dutch: poeder, poeier (colloquial)
    • Afrikaans: poeier
    • → Indonesian: pudêr, puyer, puyêr
    • → Papiamentu: puiru, poeier
    • → Sranan Tongo: puiri
      • → Aukan: puili
      • → Caribbean Hindustani: puiri
  • Limburgish: pójjer
• → Middle English: poudre, powder, pouder, powdre, pouldre, powdir, powdyr, pudre, poudur, poweder, pouþer, powþer, powther, powdur
  • English: powder (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: pouder, pouther
  • → Welsh: powdr, powdwr, pwdr
• → Middle Irish: púdar
  • Irish: púdar
  • Manx: poodyr
  • Scottish Gaelic: fùdar, pùdar

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pŭlvis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 561