Suisse

Suisse

1. Switzerland (a country in Europe)

From Middle French Suisse.

• IPA^(key): /sɥis/

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• Rhymes: -is

Suisse m or f (plural Suisses, feminine Suissesse)

1. Swiss person

The traditional feminine Suissesse is often replaced with Suisse used as a female noun.[1]

un Suisse ― a Swiss person

une Suissesse ― a Swiss person [female]

une Suisse ― a Swiss person [female]

• suisse

Suisse f

1. Switzerland (a country in Central Europe)

• Suisse alémanique

• → Chinese: 瑞士

• (countries of Europe) pays de l'Europe; Albanie, Allemagne, Andorre, Arménie, Autriche, Azerbaïdjan, Belgique, Biélorussie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Bulgarie, Chypre, Cité du Vatican, Croatie, Danemark, Espagne, Estonie, Finlande, France, Géorgie, Grèce, Hongrie, Irlande, Islande, Italie, Kazakhstan, Lettonie, Liechtenstein, Lituanie, Luxembourg, Macédoine du Nord, Malte, Moldavie, Monaco, Monténégro, Norvège, Pays-Bas, Pologne, Portugal, République tchèque, Roumanie, Royaume-Uni, Russie, Saint-Marin, Serbie, Slovaquie, Slovénie, Suède, Suisse, Turquie, Ukraine ^{(Category: fr:Countries in Europe)}

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

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From Middle High German Swīzer (“male person from the valley or the town of Schwyz”), from Swīz (“the valley or the town of Schwyz”), from Old High German Suittes (“the town of Schwyz”) (attested 972), perhaps from the verb swīdan (“to burn”), referring to a spot cleared by slash-and-burn, from Proto-West Germanic *swīþan, from Proto-Germanic *swīþaną (compare Old Norse svíða (“to burn, singe”)).

Suisse m (plural Suisses)

1. male Swiss person

• → English: Swiss

Suisse f

1. Switzerland

• Room, Adrian, Place Names of the World, 2nd ed., McFarland & Co., 2006.

From Middle High German Swīz (“the valley or the town of Schwyz”).

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La Suisse f

1. Switzerland