Polyglot Dictionary

mille-pattes

/mil.pat/

le noun B1

le (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Meaning

  1. centipede

    • Le mille-pattes a beaucoup de pattes.

      The centipede has many legs.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

scolopendre

mille-pattes is the everyday word; scolopendre is more scientific or technical, and can refer to a specific, more dangerous centipede genus — both mean "centipede."

Similar in other languages

Portuguese

centopeia

centopeia is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "centipede."

Portuguese

lacraia

lacraia is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "centipede."

Practice

1 What does mille-pattes mean?

2 Fill the gap: Le mille-___ a beaucoup de pattes.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches mille-pattes?

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