être au bout de son latin

/\ɛ.tʁ‿o bu də sɔ̃ la.tɛ̃\/ verb

Letters

25 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

être au bout de son latin is aFrenchverb. It means: Ne plus savoir que dire, que faire, être au bout de son savoir. Pronounced \ɛ.tʁ‿o bu də sɔ̃ la.tɛ̃\.

Key facts for être au bout de son latin
PropertyValue
Headwordêtre au bout de son latin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛ.tʁ‿o bu də sɔ̃ la.tɛ̃\
Letters25
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

être au bout de son latin is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for être au bout de son latin is 25 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ.tʁ‿o bu də sɔ̃ la.tɛ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ne plus savoir que dire, que faire, être au bout de son savoir.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for être au bout de son latin in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is être au bout de son latin, spelled Ê-T-R-E- -A-U- -B-O-U-T- -D-E- -S-O-N- -L-A-T-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ne plus savoir que dire, que faire, être au bout de son savoir.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "être au bout de son latin"?
"être au bout de son latin" is spelled Ê-T-R-E- -A-U- -B-O-U-T- -D-E- -S-O-N- -L-A-T-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛ.tʁ‿o bu də sɔ̃ la.tɛ̃\.
What does "être au bout de son latin" mean?
As a verb, "être au bout de son latin" means: Ne plus savoir que dire, que faire, être au bout de son savoir.
How do you pronounce "être au bout de son latin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "être au bout de son latin" is \ɛ.tʁ‿o bu də sɔ̃ la.tɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "être au bout de son latin" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.