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noun, feminine

rainure

/ʁɛ.nyʁ/

noun, feminine/ʁɛ.nyʁ/plural: rainures

groove

From Old French roisner + -ure, from Vulgar Latin *rucina, borrowed from Gaulish *rucina, in turn borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥῠκάνη (rhŭkánē, “plane, a carpenter's tool”). According to Beekes, the word is likely of Pre-Greek origin, and probably the source for Latin runcīna.