avuncular

Anglais

Étymologie

Du latin avunculus (« oncle maternel »).

Adjectif

avuncular

1. Avunculaire.
   • Both uncle Frank and uncle Stephen Austen had made it a point of principle to be rigorously unsentimental in the discharge of their avuncular obligations. — (David Nokes, Jane Austen: A Life, 1997)
2. (Par extension) Bon, gentil, tolérant.
   • A man with such a nice, avuncular personality would not blow up the world. — (William Schneider, "The New Shape of American Politics," The Atlantic, Janvier 1987)

Prononciation

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Catalan

Étymologie

Du latin avunculus (« oncle maternel »).

Adjectif

avuncular

1. Avunculaire.

Dérivés

• avunculat
• avunculocal