🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

chevreuil

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ʃə.vʁœj/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Corça/ˈkoɾ.sa/
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Une chevrette broutait paisiblement dans la clairière."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A female roe deer (Capreolus capreolus).

    "La corça corría velozmente entre los árboles del bosque."
  2. 2

    The skin or hide of a roe deer used in traditional leatherwork.

    "El artesano seleccionó una corça suave para fabricar el guante."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term originates from Romance language roots, specifically derived from Vulgar Latin *cortia or related regional descriptors for female deer or roe deer. Over centuries, it evolved within Iberian and Gallo-Romance dialects to denote the female of the roe deer species.

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