vapeur

== French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /va.pœʁ/ === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Middle French vapeur, from Old French vapour, vapor, borrowed from Latin vapor m. ==== Noun ==== vapeur f (plural vapeurs) steam vapour ===== Synonyms ===== gaz (Quebec, Acadian) boucane ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== vaporeux vaporiser ===== Descendants ===== Antillean Creole: vapè Haitian Creole: vapè === Etymology 2 === Ellipsis of bateau à vapeur, from vapeur (“steam, vapor”). ==== Noun ==== vapeur m (plural vapeurs) steamship ===== Descendants ===== → Romanian: vapor === Further reading === “vapeur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 === Anagrams === pauvre == Old French == === Alternative forms === vappeur vapor vapour === Noun === vapeur oblique singular, f (oblique plural vapeurs, nominative singular vapeur, nominative plural vapeurs) vapor === References === Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “vapeur”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.