son.
sound
Meaning & usage
sound
Le son de ce piano est agréable.
A piece (of music); a (musical) work; an opus.
C'est une bête de son ce truc!
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old French son, suen, suon, from Latin sonus (the current form may be remade after or influenced by sonner).
his, her, their, its (used to qualify masculine nouns and before a vowel)
Elle a perdu son chapeau.
Il a perdu son chapeau.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle French son, from Old French son, from Vulgar Latin sum, a reduced/atonic variant of suus, suum, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, from *swé (“self”).
bran
Ceci est du pain de son.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Latin secundus (presumably through an earlier Old French form *seon; compare an attested Medieval Latin seonno, seonnum). Cognate with Catalan segó, Old Occitan segon. The meaning derives from the fact that bran results from a second sifting of flour. Doublet of second, a borrowing.
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