pouce

Inherited from Old French pouce, pouz, peuce, from Latin pollicem.

• IPA^(key): /pus/

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• Rhymes: -us
• Homophone: pousse, poussent, pousses

pouce m (plural pouces)

1. thumb
2. inch

• coup de pouce
• manger sur le pouce
• poucet
• sucer de son pouce
• se tourner les pouces

• poucier

pouce !

1. (games) stop!, wait!

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

• coupe, Coupe, coupé

From Old French pouce (“thumb”), from Latin pollex, pollicem.

pouce m (plural pouces)

1. (Jersey) inch

• pouz, peuce

From Latin pollicem, accusative singular of pollex.

pouce oblique singular, m (oblique plural pouces, nominative singular pouces, nominative plural pouce)

1. thumb (anatomy)

• French: pouce
• Norman: pouce