entrailles

French

Etymology

From the plural of Old French entraille, from Early Medieval Latin intrālia (attested in the Reichenau Glossary), from Latin interanea, from interaneus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tʁaj/

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Noun

entrailles f pl (plural only)

1. entrails, bowels, guts
2. (literary) womb

   le fruit de vos entrailles est béni ― blessed is the fruit of thy womb

3. (figuratively) bowels, depths

   dans les entrailles de la Terre ― down in the bowels of the Earth

See also

• boyaux

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• réinstalle, réinstallé

Old French

Noun

entrailles f

1. oblique/nominative plural of entraille