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cloporte.

woodlouse

8 characters3 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/klɔ.pɔʁt/
  1. woodlouse

    masculine
  2. porter, concierge

    masculine · slang
  3. worthless person, vermin; creep

    derogatory · masculine
  4. hermit

    masculine · metonymically
Where this word comes from

Likely from clore (“to close”) + porte (“door”), from its habit of rolling into a ball. Another possible derivation is from an unattested *croteporque, mirrored in Occitan porquet de crota (“woodlouse”, literally “cave-pig”). In any case, the analysis in the first proposal is probably responsible for the figurative extension of the word to "porter, concierge".

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