crible

From Old French, from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin criblum, from Latin cribrum (through dissimilation), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to sieve”).

• IPA^(key): /kʁibl/

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crible m (plural cribles)

1. sieve, sifter, riddle (any device with holes in used to separate small things from larger things)
2. (category theory) sieve

• passer au crible

crible

1. inflection of cribler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

• críbel

crible m or f (plural cribles)

1. credible, believable

• incrible

• crer