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)

  1. (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 []
  2. (sports) wrestling
    lutte librefreestyle wrestling
    lutte gréco-romaineGraeco-Roman wrestling

Derived terms

Verb

lutte

  1. inflection of lutter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

See also

Further reading

Norwegian Nynorsk

Participle

lutte

  1. definite singular of lutt
  2. plural of lutt

Verb

lutte

  1. past tense of luta and lute

Pali

Alternative forms

Adjective

lutte

  1. locative singular masculine/neuter, vocative singular feminine and accusative plural masculine of lutta, which is past passive participle of lumpati (to break)

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