primevère

Inherited from Old French prime vere (“spring”), from Late Latin prīma vēra (“early spring”). So-named because the flower blooms early in spring.

• IPA^(key): /pʁim.vɛʁ/

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primevère f (plural primevères)

1. primrose

• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “primevère”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
• “primevère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012