empreinte
Appearance
French
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Etymology
[edit]See the verb empreindre
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]empreinte f (plural empreintes)
- imprint (any visible mark caused by pressure)
- 1903, Maurice Pillard Verneuil, Étude de la plante[1], page 4:
- Celui-ci avançant annuellement avec la croissance du rhizome, les empreintes, qui sont les cicatrices des attaches anciennes, se succèdent sur ce rhizome et le marquent comme d'un sceau.
- As it advances year by year with the growth of the rhizome, the impressions—which are the scars of old attachments—follow one another along the rhizome, marking it as if with a seal.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Spanish: emprenta
Further reading
[edit]- “empreinte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012