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Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French renard, from Old French renart, the name of the fox in the medieval Roman de Renart. A Germanic personal name, from Frankish *Raginahardu, from Proto-Germanic *Raginaharduz, from *raginą (“counsel”) + *harduz (“hard, strong”). Compare German Reinhard, whence Reineke (name of the fox, after the same tale). Displaced goupil (from Latin vulpecula), possibly by way of taboo avoidance.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]renard m (plural renards, feminine renarde, diminutive renardeau)
- fox (small carnivore)
- (figurative) crafty, purposeful and cunning character
- (slang) flatulence
- (nautical) ancient navigation tool: circular, wooden or copper plate, which enables the helmsman to keep a record of wind conditions by inserting pegs at specific positions
- hardly detectable cracks or holes causing a water tank or pond to empty itself
Derived terms
[edit]- coudre la peau du renard à celle du lion
- faux renard
- queue de renard
- queue-de-renard
- renard à grandes oreilles
- renard à oreilles de chauve-souris
- renard à petites oreilles
- renard afghan
- renard andin
- renard arctique
- renard blanc
- renard bleu
- renard blond des sables
- renard chenu
- renard commun
- renard corsac
- renard côtier
- renard crabier
- renard culpeo
- renard de Blanford
- renard de Darwin
- renard de la pampa
- renard de Magellan
- renard de Patagonie
- renard de Rüppell
- renard des Andes
- renard des Falkland
- renard des sables
- renard des savanes
- renard des steppes
- renard du Bengale
- renard du Brésil
- renard du Cap
- renard du désert austral
- renard du désert de Sechura
- renard du Tibet
- renard d’Amérique
- renard d’Amérique du Sud
- renard d’Amérique latine
- renard d’Aszara
- renard d’Azara
- renard d’Europe
- renard famélique
- renard gris
- renard gris argenté
- renard gris de Patagonie
- renard gris d’Amérique
- renard gris d’Argentine
- renard gris insulaire
- renard insulaire
- renard isatis
- renard nain
- renard pâle
- renard polaire
- renard rouge
- renard roux
- renard véloce
- renard vulgaire
- renard-chaton
- renard-chaton à longues oreilles
- renarde
- renardeau
- renardelle
- renarder
- renardie
- renardier
- renardière
- renardise
- requin renard
- rusé comme un renard
- vendre la poule au renard
See also
[edit]- goupil (“fox”) (older term, now obsolete)
- Goupil (French surname, see Saint René Goupil)
- Renart le goupil (= German: Reineke Fuchs; English: Reynard the Fox)
Further reading
[edit]- “renard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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