← All words
noun, feminine

pivoine

/pi.vwan/

noun, feminine/pi.vwan/plural: pivoines

peony (flower)

rouge comme une pivoinered as a beetroot

Related: bouvreuil pivoine

Inherited from Old French pyoine (with epenthetic /-v-/), borrowed from Latin paeōnia, borrowed from Ancient Greek παιωνία (paiōnía, “peony”).