bois

bois

1. plural of boi

• BIOS, Ibos, SIBO, bios, obis, sibo

From Middle French bois, boys, boiz, from Old French bosc, bois, from Late Latin boscus or Vulgar Latin *buscus, from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”). Compare Italian bosco, Spanish bosque, Dutch bos and English bush.

• IPA^(key): /bwa/, /bwɑ/

bois m (plural bois)

1. wood (material)
2. wood, woodland
3. antler
4. woodwind

• buisson

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /bwa/
• Homophone: boit

bois

1. inflection of boire:
   1. first/second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular present imperative

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

• bios

bois

1. plural of boi

bois

1. inflection of bos:
   1. dative singular
   2. dual all cases

From buis.

bois

1. tax

• bosc

From Late Latin boscus, Vulgar Latin *buscus, from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“bush, thicket”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈboi̯s/

bois m (oblique plural bois, nominative singular bois, nominative plural bois)

1. woodland; woods

• buison
• boschage

• Bourguignon: boo
• Bourbonnais-Berrichon: bou
• Middle French: bois, boys, boiz
  • French: bois
    • Haitian Creole: bwa
• Gallo: boéz, (Ille, Vilaine) boueil
• Norman: bouais (Jersiais), bwee (Sercquiais)
• Orléanais: boué (Solognot)
• Picard: bôs (Athois), bos (Ch'ti)
• Walloon: bos (Charleroi), bwès (Forrières, Liégeois)
• ⇒ Old French: bousquet, bochet, bouquet
  • Middle French: bouquet, boucquet
    • French: bouquet
      • → English: bouquet
  • Gallo: bóqèt
  • Norman: boûquet
  • Picard: bouqueû, bouqueut
  • Walloon: boukèt

bois

1. plural of boi

From buis.

boís

1. tax

• vois

From Latin vōbīs..

• IPA^(key): /ˈbois/, [ˈboː.i.zĭ]

bois (possessive bostru)

1. you (plural), ye

   Synonym: bos, bosateros

• nois (“we”)

bois

1. dative singular of bas

• Also used as nominative.