lutte
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See also: lutté
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French, from Late Latin lucta, from Latin luctor (“to wrestle”). Compare Italian lotta, Spanish lucha and Romanian luptă.
Pronunciation
Noun
lutte f (plural luttes)
- (literally or figuratively) struggle, fight, battle
- La lutte contre le capitalisme
- The struggle against capitalism
- 1923, Marcel Proust, chapter 1, in La Prisonnière [The Prisoner] (À la recherche du temps perdu):
- Heureux ceux qui le comprennent assez tôt pour ne pas trop prolonger une lutte inutile, épuisante […]
- Happy are they who understand in time not to prolong a useless, exhausting struggle […]
- (sports) wrestling
Derived terms
Verb
lutte
- inflection of lutter:
Related terms
See also
- bataille f
Further reading
- “lutte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Participle
lutte
Verb
lutte
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative scripts
- 𑀮𑀼𑀢𑁆𑀢𑁂 (Brahmi script)
- लुत्ते (Devanagari script)
- লুত্তে (Bengali script)
- ලුත්තෙ (Sinhalese script)
- လုတ္တေ or လုတ်တေ (Burmese script)
- ลุตฺเต or ลุตเต (Thai script)
- ᩃᩩᨲ᩠ᨲᩮ (Tai Tham script)
- ລຸຕ຺ເຕ or ລຸຕເຕ (Lao script)
- លុត្តេ (Khmer script)
- 𑄣𑄪𑄖𑄴𑄖𑄬 (Chakma script)
Adjective
lutte
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