soeur

• IPA^(key): /sœʁ/

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soeur f (plural soeurs)

1. Nonstandard spelling of sœur.

• The œ ligature is often replaced in contemporary French with oe (the œ character does not appear on AZERTY keyboards), but this is nonstandard.

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

• euros, ourse, roues

• seur
• suer

From Old French suer, from Latin soror.

soeur f (plural soeurs)

1. sister

• French: sœur

• soeu (Jersey)

From Old French suer, from Latin soror, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

soeur f (plural soeurs)

1. (Guernsey) sister