Lièvre
/ljɛvʁ/noun
A hare.
Did you know?French lièvre comes from Latin leporem, and that same old root also gave English a very different word-family: the romance of speed, stealth, and the hunted animal itself.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*leip-
“to stick, adhere”
Latin
Latin
lepus, leporis
“hare”
Vulgar Latin
VL
*lepor(e)
“hare”
Old French
OFr
lievre
“hare”
Modern English
English
lièvre
“hare (borrowed in French form; chiefly in culinary or zoological contexts)”