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interjection

au revoir

/o ʁə.vwaʁ/

interjection/o ʁə.vwaʁ/

goodbye

Synonyms: salut, à plus tard, à plus, bye, bye-bye, ciao, à la revoyure

Literally, “until the reseeing”. Ultimately from Latin ad + Latin illum + Latin re- + Latin videō. Cognate with Italian arrivederci. Compare Spanish hasta la vista as well as parallel and more distant cognate Bulgarian довиждане (doviždane), Russian до свида́ния (do svidánija).