Doré

Part of Speech

noun

Difficulty Level

Translations

🇩🇪 goldfarben , 🇪🇸 dorado , 🇮🇹 dorato , 🇵🇹 dourado , 🇨🇳 金色的 , 🇯🇵 金色の , 🇰🇷 금빛의 , 🇸🇦 مذهّب , 🇮🇳 सোনे रंग का

Usage Examples

Etymology

**doré** (noun, “gold” or “golden thing”) comes from Old French *dor* “gold”, itself a back‑shifted form of Late Latin *aurum* “gold”. The noun entered Middle French as *doré* through the past‑participle suffix *‑é* of the verb *dorer* (“to gild”), giving the modern sense of something covered or made of gold. Thus the word traces back to the Latin *aurum* via an Old French intermediary *dor*.

Synonyms

l’or la dorure le doré le jaune d’or l’éclat d’or le lustre d’or

Antonyms

noir brun argenté gris sombre