lutte

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

• IPA^(key): /lyt/

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• (Quebec) IPA^(key): [lʏt]
• Homophones: lûtes, luttent, luttes

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 libre ― freestyle wrestling

   lutte gréco-romaine ― Graeco-Roman wrestling

Derived terms

• de haute lutte
• lutte des classes

Verb

lutte

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

Related terms

• en lutte
• lutte d’intérêts
• lutter
• lutteur

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

1. definite singular of lutt
2. plural of lutt

Verb

lutte

1. past tense of luta and lute

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

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