Louvre

See also: louvre

English

Louvre (Richelieu wing)

Etymology

Borrowed from French Louvre. More at Louvre Palace.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluːv(ɹə)/, /ˈluːvə(ɹ)/

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -uːvɹə, -uːvə(ɹ)

Proper noun

Louvre

1. A famous art museum and former royal palace in Paris, France.
   • 2011, Tara Kingston, Claimed by the Spymaster, page 68:

     God above, this man was as chiseled as the statues she'd spied in the Louvre.

   • 2010, Don McCauley, Power Trip: A Guide to Weightlifting for Coaches, Athletes and Parents, page 130:

     I don't care if your split, power or squat position looks like it should be in the Louvre, you won't jerk a thing.

   • 2006, Ted Nelson Lundrigan, Bob White, A Bird in the Hand, page 85:

     I preferred the Dutch apple pie, and my waitress for those few years had legs that belonged in the Louvre.

   • 1985 February, Phil Elderkin, “Don Mattingly: A.L. Batting Champion, A Born Hitter”, in Baseball Digest, volume 44, number 2, page 49:

     IF YOU ARE a young Joe DiMaggio or Mickey Mantle with a swing that belongs in the Louvre, somebody might get the idea you could win a batting title, even if it was only your second year with the New York Yankees.

   • 1960, Thomas Felix Staton, How to Instruct Successfully: Modern Teaching Methods in Adult Education, page 172:

     For purposes of illustrating a lecture on calisthenics, a stick figure is a better picture of a squatting man than something from the Louvre.

   • 1889, Alexandre Dumas, Dame de Monsoreau: Volume 1, page 319:

     They are cries which show that every one has his own place, and should stay in it, — M. de Guise in the streets, and you in the Louvre. Go to the Louvre, Sire; go to the Louvre.

Translations

an art museum in France

• Arabic: اَللُّوفْر m (al-lūfr)

  Egyptian Arabic: اللوفر m (el-lūvr)

• Armenian: Լուվր (Luvr)
• Belarusian: Луўр m (Luŭr)
• Bulgarian: Лу́вър m (Lúvǎr)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盧浮宮／卢浮宫 (zh) (Lúfúgōng), 羅浮宮／罗浮宫 (zh) (Luófúgōng)

• Czech: Louvre m
• Danish: Louvre
• Dutch: Louvre n
• Esperanto: Luvro, Louvre
• Estonian: Louvre (et)
• Finnish: Louvre
• French: le Louvre (fr) m, le musée du Louvre m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Greek: Λούβρο n (Loúvro)
• Hebrew: לוברה
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: Louvre
• Irish: Louvre m
• Italian: Louvre m, Museo del Louvre m
• Japanese: ルーヴル (ja) (Rūvuru)
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: លូវ័រ (luuvɔə)
• Korean: 루브르 (Rubeureu)
• Lithuanian: Luvras m
• Macedonian: Лувр m (Luvr)
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Marathi: लूव्ह्र (lūvhra)
• Persian: لوور (luvr)
• Polish: Luwr m
• Portuguese: Louvre m
• Romanian: Luvru m
• Russian: Лувр (ru) m (Luvr)
• Scottish Gaelic: Louvre
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: Louvre m, Museo del Louvre m
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: Louvren c
• Tagalog: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ลูฟร์
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: Лувр m (Luvr)
• Vietnamese: Bảo tàng Louvre
• Welsh: Louvre f

Anagrams

• louver, velour

French

Etymology

Of disputed origin:

• possibly from Latin Lupara, a name derived from lupus (“wolf”), as the first fortress of the Louvre was built on a place with such a name designating its area as a wolf hunting den.

• or of Germanic origin, such as Frankish; in an old Saxon-Latin gloss, Loëvar is translated as Castellum, related to Middle Low German lūren (“to watch over, lurk, spy”), from Proto-Germanic *lūraną, which is of uncertain origin, but possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“to see, shine”).

• possibly from Late Latin roboretum (“oak wood”), from Latin robur (“oak tree”), by analysis with the modern name of the Norman river Rouvre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luvʁ/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Louvre m

1. Louvre