prairie
French
noun
Definitions
- meadow, grassland, pasture, prairie
Etymology
Inherited from Old French praerie derived from Latin pratum (meadow).
Origin
Latin
pratum
Gloss
meadow
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Prairial English
- prairie English
- prairie chicken English
- prairied English
- prairieland English
- pratincola Latin
- pratum Latin
- Prärie German
- préri Hungarian
- pratarolo Italian
- prairial Dutch, Flemish
- prairie Dutch, Flemish
- prairial French
- pré French
- прерия Russian
- *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- prærie Norwegian Bokmål
- prærieulv Norwegian Bokmål
- preria Polish
- preriowy Polish
- preryjny Polish
- prærie Norwegian Nynorsk
- prærieulv Norwegian Nynorsk
- prætt Old English
- praerie Old French
- pradu Sardinian