élytre
French, noun/e.litʁ/
élytre is a French masculine noun meaning “elytron” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aile antérieure coriace, très rigide, inapte au vol des coléoptères et des orthoptères. La paire d’élytres…”.
What does élytre mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineelytron
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Aile antérieure coriace, très rigide, inapte au vol des coléoptères et des orthoptères. La paire d’élytres protège les ailes postérieures membraneuses, seules aptes au vol. 2. Mode d’ouverture de portière de voiture pour lequel la porte pivote selon un axe horizontal et non vertical.
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 élytre
- élytres plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce élytre?
- /e.litʁ/
- \e.litʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to élytre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is élytre in French?
élytre appears about once in every 18 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).