lapidaire
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin lapidārius (“stony”). The terse sense is from inscription lapidaire, short inscriptions carved in stone.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /la.pi.dɛʁ/
Audio: (file) - Homophones: lapidaires, lapidèrent
Adjective
[edit]lapidaire (plural lapidaires)
- related to stone
- inscription lapidaire ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (figurative) terse (abruptly short)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → German: lapidar
Noun
[edit]lapidaire m or f by sense (plural lapidaires)
Further reading
[edit]- “lapidaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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