avuncular
Anglais modifier
Étymologie modifier
- Du latin avunculus (« oncle maternel »).
Adjectif modifier
avuncular
- 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)
- (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 modifier
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Catalan modifier
Étymologie modifier
- Du latin avunculus (« oncle maternel »).
Adjectif modifier
avuncular