Terminology record for estuarine
RECORD
| Record No.: | 252/en/465 |
| Author: | ELAD D. F. |
| Creation date: | |
| Last updated: | 2023-03-25 00:00:00 |
| 🇫🇷 FRENCH | ||||
| DOMAINE |
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| VEDETTE | * Saumâtre statut : recommandé
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| PARTIE DU DISCOURS | adjectif | |||
| ÉTYMOLOGIE | Saumâtre | |||
| SOURCE DE L'ETYMOLOGIE |
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). Grand Robert de la langue française, en 6 volumes version 2.0 (2005). | |||
| DÉFINITION |
Qui est mêlé à de l’eau de mer - qui est constitué d'un mélange d'eau douce et d'eau de mer. | |||
| SOURCE DE DÉFINITION | Fishterm | |||
| 🇬🇧 ENGLISH | ||||
| SUBJECT FIELD |
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| TERM | * Estuarine status: recommended
* Brackish (adjective) status: accepted | |||
| PART OF SPEECH | adjective | |||
| ETYMOLOGY | Brackish: From brack and -ish; from Middle Dutch brac, ‘briny’; mid 16th cent.: from obsolete brack ‘salty’, from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch brac. estuarine: From estuary and -ine; from Classical Latin aestuarium, ‘beach’. | |||
| ETYMOLOGY SOURCE |
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). | |||
| DEFINITION |
of or referring to an estuary. (of water) slightly salty. In-between marine and freshwater. | |||
| DEFINITION SOURCE |
Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). | |||
