entraver

== French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɑ̃.tʁa.ve/ === Etymology 1 === Possibly from en- + tref, or borrowed from Old Occitan entravar, from trau, from Latin trabem. ==== Verb ==== entraver to hinder; to impede Synonym: empêcher to fetter; to shackle === Etymology 2 === Inherited from Old French enterver (“understand”) (influenced by the above word), inherited from Latin interrogāre (“to ask, question”). Doublet of interroger. ==== Verb ==== entraver (slang, dated) to understand ===== Conjugation ===== === Further reading === “entraver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012