monstre
French
noun
Definitions
- monster
- (figurative) hideous person, fiend
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French monstre inherited from Old French monstre borrowed from Latin mōnstrum (monster, portent, monstrosity).
Origin
Latin
mōnstrum
Gloss
monster, portent, monstrosity
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- monster English
- moneō Latin
- monstrare Latin
- monstriger Latin
- monstrum Latin
- monstruosus Latin
- mōnstrum Latin
- mōnstrāre Latin
- Monster German
- mostro Italian
- monster Dutch, Flemish
- монстр Russian
- monstruo Spanish, Castilian
- *men- Proto-Indo-European
- monstro Portuguese
- monster Swedish
- monstre Middle English
- monstre Old French
- monstre Catalan, Valencian
- monstro Galician
- monstru Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- monstre Norman
- monstre Middle French
- munster Middle Low German
- *monestrom Proto-Italic
- mons Haitian, Haitian Creole