orage

French

FWOTD – 22 August 2022

Etymology

Inherited from Old French orage m, from Vulgar Latin *aurāticum m, derived from Latin aura f (“wind, breeze”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁaʒ/

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• Rhymes: -aʒ

Noun

orage m (plural orages)

1. thunderstorm
   • 2022 June 10, “La météo du dimanche 12 juin : un temps ensoleillé mais lourd, des risques d'orage”, in Figaro:

     Quelques orages traverseront les régions du sud-ouest à l’est de la France.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. storm, upset
3. (literary) turmoil, tumult
4. a device on an organ, which produces a "thunder" effect, usually by playing a large cluster chord on the pedalboard
   • 2016, Emmanuel Reibel, Nature et Musique, Fayard (publ.).

     Les orages sont alors très prisés pour mettre en valeur les nouvelles possibilités techniques des instruments : […]

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Derived terms

• orageux

Descendants

• → Romanian: oraj n

References

• orage on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Further reading

• “orage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *aurāticum m, derived from Latin aura f (“wind, breeze”). By surface analysis, ore +‎ -age.

Noun

orage oblique singular, m (oblique plural orages, nominative singular orages, nominative plural orage)

1. storm; tempest

Synonyms

• tempeste

Descendants

• Middle French:
  • French: orage m
    • → Romanian: oraj n
• → Italian: oraggio (archaic)