membre

See also: membré

English

Noun

membre (plural membres)

1. Obsolete form 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.

Anagrams

• 'member, member

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin membrum. First attested in 1131.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

membre m (plural membres)

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

Derived terms

• membre viril

Further reading

• “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, 2025
• “membre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “membre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin membrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃bʁ/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

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.

Derived terms

• classe membre
• État membre
• membre fondateur
• membre viril
• pays membre

Further reading

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

Middle French

Noun

membre m (plural membres)

1. limb (arm or leg)

Norman

Etymology

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

Noun

membre m (plural membres)

1. (Jersey) member

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin membrum.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

membre m (plural membres)

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