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English

Noun

noyeau (plural noyeaus)

1. Archaic spelling of noyau. (French liqueur)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French noyau.

Noun

noyau (plural noyaus)

1. A French liqueur made at Poissy in north central France from brandy and flavoured with almonds and the pits of apricots. [from 18th c.]
   • 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 178:

     His coffee was excellent, and then came a case of liqueurs, noyau both white and red, etc.

2. (ethology) A small nucleus or core group of people or animals. [from 20th c.]
   • 1966 August 26, Richard Ardrey, "Strongest Bond of All - The Space We Own" in LIFE, page 58:

     Borders are violated by hungering males and famished females, and the ordered animosities of the noyau give way to a saturnalia of sexual adventure.

   • 1999, Ronald M. Nowak, Walker's Primates of the World, JHU Press ?ISBN, page 27

     The orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) also exhibits the noyau system and appears to be the only diurnal primate with a largely solitary lifestyle.

   • 2000, Sergio M. Pellis & Andrew N. Iwaniuk, "Adult-Adult Play in Primates: Comparative Analyses of Its Origin, Distribution and Evolution", Ethology 106, page 1089:

     This "noyau" pattern is found among various nocturnal strepsirrhines.

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20130330004136/http://www.noyaudepoissy.com/pages/histoire.htm

French

Etymology

From Late Latin nuc?lis, from Latin nux.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nwa.jo/

Noun

noyau m (plural noyaux)

1. stone (of a fruit), pit (of a fruit)
2. group (of artists etc.); cell (of terrorists etc.)
3. (geology) core
4. (biology, physics) nucleus
5. (computing) kernel
6. (phonetics, phonology) nucleus of a syllable

   Antonyms: attaque, coda

Derived terms

• antinoyau
• noyautage
• noyauter

Related terms

• noix

Further reading

• “noyau” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).