Pyrénées

Pyrenees English Proper noun p 1 en Pyrenees. en A[lexander] Taylor On the Curative Influence of the Climate of Pau, and the Mineral Waters of the Pyrenees, on Disease.With Descriptive Notices of the Geology, Botany, Natural History, Mountain Sports, Local Antiquities, and Topography of the Pyrenees, and Their Principal Watering-Places. London John W. Parker,West Strand. 1842 107 https://archive.org/details/b2928840x/page/107/mode/1up The Pyrénées form a chain of rocks continuing without any interruption from the ocean to the Mediterranean, and are the most considerable of Europe after the Alps. en Max Ciampoli; Linda Ciampoli Churchill’s Secret Agent: A Novel Based on a True Story https://books.google.com/books?id=CUJDunJxLXsC&pg=PT148 New York, N.Y. w:Berkley Books 2010 978-1-101-44559-4 The Pyrénées were only about eleven hundred meters high at the point where we were to begin the climb on foot. But already there was a lot of snow. en Derek Shuff Evader: The Epic Story of the First British Airman to Be Rescued by the Comète Escape Line in World War II Stroud, Glos. w:The History Press 2010 120 https://archive.org/details/evaderepicstoryo0000shuf/page/120/mode/1up 978 0 7524 5748 2 The Pyrénées, rising at their highest to just over 11,000 feet, though rather less on the western end towards Hendaye, provided a naturally magnificent backdrop. It was as though God had had second thoughts about making Spain and France such close neighbours and had shovelled the rocky Pyrénées into place to keep the two countries apart. French fr: Etymology Inherited, through ellipsis, from fr frm montaignes Pyrenees Pyrenean mountains f-p, itself a partial calque of fr la Pȳrēnaeī montēs m-p, itself a partial calque of fr grc Πυρηναῖα ὄρη n-p. fr pyrénée<pos:adj> -s. Pronunciation fr LL-Q150 (fra)-DSwissK-Pyrénées.wav <<Switzerland>> (<<Valais>>) fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Poslovitch-Pyrénées.wav <<France>> (<<Vosges>>) fr Pyrénée Proper noun f-p fr mountain range between c/France,Spain Pyrenees fr monts Pyrénées<g:m-p><qq:dated, literary> Usage notes In contemporary French, fr Pyrénées is considered feminine. However, in earlier stages of the language, the word was also used as masculine, especially in the phrase fr monts PyrénéesThis usage is illustrated in the article fr 1751 MONT Encyclopédie 10 672 Mont & montagne sont synonymes, mais on se sert rarement du premier en prose, à moins qu’il ne soit accompagné de quelque nom propre, comme le mont Etna, le mont Gibel, le mont Liban, le mont Sinaï, le mont Atlas, le mont Parnasse, les monts Pyrénées ; on ne dit point cependant les mons Alpes, mais les Alpes, [...] (from frm mons Pyrenees m, from la Pȳrēnaeī montes m). Below are two examples from 18th-century authors showing masculine gender agreement between fr Pyrénées and an adjective: fr 1766 fr:Jean-Joseph Expilly Jean-Joseph Expilly Dictionnaire géographique, historique et politique des Gaules et de la France Geographical, Historical, and Political Dictionary of the Gauls and of France 33 https://books.google.com/books?id=MMlTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA33 Il y a auſſi quelques forêts de pins au-deſſus d’Aigues-Mortes, au dioceſe de Niſmes, de même que dans les bas Pyrénées à l’oueſt des montagnes ; [...] - fr 1822 (posthumous) André Chénier Hymne à la France Œuvres posthumes Posthumous Works 287 https://books.google.com/books?id=cw_3NCx9IZUC&pg=PA287 Les chênes, les sapins et les ormes épaisEn utiles rameaux ombragent tes sommets ;Et de Baune et d’Aï les rives fortunées,Et la riche Aquitaine et les hauts Pyrénées,Sous leurs bruyans pressoirs font couler en ruisseauxDes vins délicieux mûris sur leurs côteaux. - Derived terms fr angélique des Pyrénées Basses-Pyrénées chardon bleu des Pyrénées chêne des Pyrénées cochléaire des Pyrénées colchique des Pyrénées cranson des Pyrénées faux-pissenlit des Pyrénées fritillaire des Pyrénées Hautes-Pyrénées liondent des Pyrénées Midi-Pyrénées pédiculaire des Pyrénées Petites Pyrénées Pyrénées-Atlantiques Pyrénées-Orientales ramonde des Pyrénées ramondie des Pyrénées sélin des Pyrénées thésium des Pyrénées Related terms fr Pyrène pyrénée pyrénaïque pyrénéen Pyrénéen,Pyrénéenne Descendants ota پیرنه Pirene 1 ota پیرنه‌لر Pireneler 1 tr Pireneler fa پیرنه pirene 1 References fr Europe Mountain ranges