soir

Inherited from Old French soir, from earlier seir, from Latin sērō (“late”, adverb), from sērus (“late”).

• (Europe) IPA^(key): /swaʁ/

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• (standard Canadian French) IPA^(key): /swɑːʁ/
• (Québec: Gaspésie and Acadia) IPA^(key): /swɛː(ɾ)/
• (Québec: Montréal, joual) IPA^(key): /swɛːʁ/, /sweʁ/
• (Québec: popular, informal) IPA^(key): /swɔːʁ/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /swar/, [swɒ(ɾ)]
• Homophone: seoir
• Rhymes: -waʁ

soir m (plural soirs)

1. evening

• bonsoir
• coup d’un soir
• du matin au soir
• étoile du soir
• histoire du soir

• soirée

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

• rois

From Middle Irish sair. Variant of the synonym an ear, from Old Irish an air (“from before”).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /sˠɪɾʲ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /sˠɛɾʲ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ʃɛɾʲ/^[1] (as if spelled seir)

soir

1. east, eastern (static position)

soir

1. east, eastward

• This word refers only to an ultimate destination of movement (i.e., "to the east").
• The adjective is indeclinable in Irish

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “soir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 71

Probably borrowed from French soir. Compare the inherited Occitan form ser, seir.

soir m (plural soirs)

1. evening

• seir
• ser

From earlier seir, from Latin sērō (“late”, adverb), from sērus (“late”).

soir oblique singular, m (oblique plural soirs, nominative singular soirs, nominative plural soir)

1. evening

• French: soir
• Norman: sei
• Picard: soir

From Old French soir, from earlier seir, from Late Latin sēra, from ellipsis of Latin sēra diēs, from sērus (“late”).

soir m

1. evening