artère
French, noun/aʁ.tɛʁ/
artère is spelled A-R-T-È-R-E (6 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written French, the 11,545th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Artère is a French feminine noun meaning “artery (“blood vessel”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tube musculaire, élastique et contractile dans lequel le sang, projeté par les contractions du cœur, est…”.
What does artère mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineartery (“blood vessel”)
- 2
femininearterial, thoroughfare
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Tube musculaire, élastique et contractile dans lequel le sang, projeté par les contractions du cœur, est porté dans tous les organes. 2. Voies de communication et de circulation les plus fréquentées. 3. Ensemble des infrastructures constitutives d'un tronçon de câbles.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of artère
- artères plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce artère?
- /aʁ.tɛʁ/
- \aʁ.tɛʁ\
- [aʁ.tɛʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to artère
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is artère in French?
artère appears 4.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).