membre

membre (plural membres)

1. Obsolete spelling of member.
   • 1559, An Elizabethan Guild of the City of Exeter, page 102:

     Thus the bodie beinge divided everie one membre having smale regarde of thother were at length brought to suche a feeble and extreme state that they awayted for nothinge but even the utter decaye and confusion of them selves wh indeed folowed, even so shall it be by us : for when everie singuler membre envieng the state of the bodie will of any singuler fantasie swerve from that unitie we are all conjoined in lett him awayte most assuredlie for destruction.

• 'member, member

Borrowed from Latin membrum. First attested in 1131.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmem.bɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmem.bɾe]

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membre m (plural membres)

1. member (one who belongs to a group)
2. member, limb
3. member (penis)

• membre viril

• “membre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “membre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “membre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “membre”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Borrowed from Latin membrum.

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃bʁ/

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membre m (plural membres)

1. member (of a group or organization)

   une membre du gouvernement ― a member of the government

   Cet État était alors membre de la confédération germanique.

   At the time, this state was a member of the German Confederation.

2. limb, member

   la fracture d’un membre ― limb fracture

   se casser un membre ― to break a limb

   • 1894, Crafty, À travers Paris, page 11:

     Les véhicules enluminés stationnent alignés au bas des trottoirs, pendant que leurs attelages étirent leurs membres fatigués et allument la réconfortante cigarette.

     The illuminated vehicles park in rows along the sidewalks, while their teams stretch their tired limbs and light a comforting cigarette.

3. member, penis

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis

   • 1785, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage:

     Le duc de Blangis, cinquante ans, fait comme un satyre, doué d'un membre monstrueux et d'une force prodigieuse. On peut le regarder comme le réceptacle de tous les vices et de tous les crimes. Il a tué sa mère, sa sœur et trois de ses femmes.

     The Duke of Blangis, 50 years, built like a satyr, endowed with a monstrous member and a prodigious strength. One can regard him as a receptacle of all vices and all crimes. He killed his mother, his sister and three of his wives.

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

membre m (plural membres)

1. limb (arm or leg)

From Old French membre, from Latin membrum (“limb, body part”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”).

membre m (plural membres)

1. (Jersey) member

From Latin membrum.

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membre m (plural membres)

1. member (one who officially belongs to a group)