souffle

== English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== souffle (plural souffles) Alternative spelling of soufflé (“dish made with eggs”). ==== Verb ==== souffle (third-person singular simple present souffles, present participle souffleing, simple past and past participle souffled or souffleed) Alternative spelling of soufflé. === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from French souffle. ==== Pronunciation ==== ==== Noun ==== souffle (plural souffles) (medicine) A murmuring or blowing sound. == French == === Etymology === From souffler, from Latin sufflāre. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sufl/ === Noun === souffle m (plural souffles) blowing (act of expelling air from the mouth) a breeze, a gust (movement of wind) a breath, or the act of breathing the inspiration or influence (for a work of art, idea, & so forth)) the powerful movement of air caused by an explosion (cardiology, medicine) the sound made by any condition which produces noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart; a murmur ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== souffler soufflerie ==== Descendants ==== → English: souffle === Verb === souffle inflection of souffler: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive second-person singular imperative === Further reading === “souffle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012