bélier

Syllable Decomposition

lier

with a change of suffix (-ier for -in), from the Old French belin, attested around 1151 in the form belinus, a proper name for the sheep in the Ysengrimus novel, see renard for another example of a substantivized proper name from the same period that has ousted the equivalent Latin word (for the ram: aries).

Definitions

élevage
armement

Feminine

Bélier

Plural

béliers

Anagram

riblée

Translations

  • germangerman:Widder
  • englishenglish:battering ram
  • spanishspanish:ariete
  • finnishfinnish:pässi
  • italianitalian:montone
  • dutchdutch:stormram
  • polishpolish:baran
  • portugueseportuguese:carneiro
  • russianrussian:баран
  • swedishswedish:vädur

See also

bélière (cn.) Béliers (pn.) Bélier (pn.)