écran

See also: ecran and êcran

French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-West Germanic *skirmi

Old Dutch skirm

Middle Dutch schermbor.

Old French escran

Middle French écran

French écran

Inherited from Middle French écran, from Old French escran, escren, borrowed from Middle Dutch scherm, from Old Dutch *skirm, from Proto-West Germanic *skirmi, from Proto-Germanic *skirmiz.

Pronunciation

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Noun

écran m (plural écrans)

screen
un écran de télévision ― a television screen

Usage notes

Not to be confused with écrin (“jewel box”).

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Albanian: ekran
→ Azerbaijani: ekran
→ Bulgarian: екра́н (ekrán)
→ Crimean Tatar: ekran
→ Khmer: អេក្រង់ (eekrɑŋ)
→ Polish: ekran
→ Portuguese: ecrã, écran
→ Romanian: ecran
→ Russian: экран (ekran), экра́нъ (ekrán) — pre-1918 spelling
- → Armenian: էկրան (ēkran)
- → Estonian: ekraan
- → Lithuanian: ekranas
- → Georgian: ეკრანი (eḳrani)
- → Kazakh: экран (ékran)
- → Uyghur: ئېكران (ëkran)
→ Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic script: екран
- Latin script: ekran
→ Turkish: ekran
→ Ukrainian: екра́н (ekrán)

Further reading

“écran”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

ancre, ancré, cerna, crâne, encra, nacre, rance

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French écran.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: é‧cran

Noun

écran m (plural écrans)

alternative spelling of ecrã

Further reading

“écran”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“écran”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026