fourmilière

common noun

Syllable Decomposition

fourmilière

attested in the form formilliere ("dwelling built by ants"), written, in 1740, fourmilliere in the dictionary of the academy; alteration of the Old French formiiere from the Latin formicarius ("[house] of ants") which gives the Catalan formiguer, the Spanish hormiguero, the Portuguese formigueiro, the Romanian furnicar.

Definitions

Plural

fourmilières

Translations

  • germangerman:Ameisenhaufen
  • englishenglish:ant-hill
  • dutchdutch:mierennest
  • polishpolish:mrowisko
  • swedishswedish:myrstack

See also

fourmillant (adj.) biforme (adj.) myrmicéen (adj.) fourmi (cn.) fourmilier (cn.) fourmillement (cn.) fourmiller (v.)