membre

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English

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Noun

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membre (plural membres)

  1. Obsolete form of member.
    • 1559, An Elizabethan Guild of the City of Exeter, page 102:
      Thus the bodie beinge divided everie one membre having smale regarde of thother were at length brought to suche a feeble and extreme state that they awayted for nothinge but even the utter decaye and confusion of them selves wh indeed folowed, even so shall it be by us : for when everie singuler membre envieng the state of the bodie will of any singuler fantasie swerve from that unitie we are all conjoined in lett him awayte most assuredlie for destruction.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin membrum. First attested in 1131.

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membre m (plural membres)

  1. member (one who belongs to a group)
  2. member, limb
  3. member (penis)

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin membrum.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /mɑ̃bʁ/
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Noun

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membre m (plural membres)

  1. member (of a group or organization)
    une membre du gouvernementa member of the government
    Cet État était alors membre de la confédération germanique.
    At the time, this state was a member of the German Confederation.
  2. limb, member
    la fracture d’un membrelimb fracture
    se casser un membreto break a limb
  3. member, penis
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis
    • 1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage:
      Le duc de Blangis, cinquante ans, fait comme un satyre, doué d’un membre monstrueux et d’une force prodigieuse. On peut le regarder comme le réceptacle de tous les vices et de tous les crimes. Il a tué sa mère, sa sœur et trois de ses femmes.
      The Duke of Blangis, 50 years, built like a satyr, endowed with a monstrous member and a prodigious strength. One can regard him as a receptacle of all vices and all crimes. He killed his mother, his sister and three of his wives.

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Middle French

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membre m (plural membres)

  1. limb (arm or leg)

Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French membre, from Latin membrum (limb, body part), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (flesh).

Noun

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membre m (plural membres)

  1. (Jersey) member

Occitan

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Etymology

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From Latin membrum.

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membre m (plural membres)

  1. member (one who officially belongs to a group)