flûte

• flute (post-1990 spelling)

From Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut. The contraction of the Old French hiatus created a long vowel in Middle French, which is indicated by the modern circumflex.

• IPA^(key): /flyt/

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flûte f (plural flûtes)

1. flute (woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger)

   flûte à bec ― recorder

   flûte de Pan ― panpipes, pan flute

   flûte traversière ― Western concert flute

2. flute (glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne)

   flûte à champagne ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• flûtiste

• → Italian: flute, flûte
• → Luxembourgish: Flütt
• → Walloon: flûte
• → Volapük: flut (possibly)

flûte

1. blow! drat! (mildly impolite interjection)

   Synonyms: zut, saperlipopette

   • 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, pages 85–86:

     Devant toi, une fille sourit. Tu l'aimes. Elle ne le saura jamais. Flûte. C'était une belle minute.

     In front of you, a girl smiles. You love her. She'll never know. Damn. It was a beautiful moment.

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

Unadapted borrowing from French flûte, from Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flaut. Doublet of flauto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈflut/, (careful style) /ˈflyt/^[1][2]
• Rhymes: -ut

flûte m or (in specialist contexts) f (invariable)^[3]

1. flute (type of glass)

   Synonyms: flute, fluttino

Borrowed from French flûte, from Old French fleüte, from Old Occitan flauto.

• IPA^(key): /flyːt/

flûte f (plural flûtes)

1. flute (musical instrument)