anniversaire
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin adjective anniversārius (“annual, yearly”), from vertō (“to turn, revolve”) + annus (“year”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ni.vɛʁ.sɛʁ/
Audio (Quebec, Montreal) (file) - (Quebec) IPA(key): [a.ni.vɛʁ.saɛ̯ʁ]
Audio (file) - Homophone: anniversaires
Noun
anniversaire m (plural anniversaires)
- birthday
- C’est mon onzième anniversaire.
- It's my eleventh birthday.
- anniversary
- Le deuxième anniversaire de notre mariage.
- Our second wedding anniversary.
Synonyms
- fête (birthday) in Quebec only
Derived terms
Further reading
- “anniversaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Alternative forms
- annivèrsaithe (Jersey)
Etymology
From Latin anniversārius (“annual, yearly”), from annus (“year”) + vertō (“I turn, revolve”).
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