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propre (comparative more propre, superlative most propre)

1. Obsolete form of proper.

• amour propre

• Proper, per pro, pro per, proper

propre

1. inflection of proper:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Inherited from Old French propre, borrowed from Latin proprius.

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔpʁ/

propre (plural propres)

1. (before a noun) own

   C’est ma propre maison ― It's my own house

2. clean

   une maison propre ― a clean house

3. (of a child) toilet-trained
4. (of a pet) house-trained
5. proper, specific, particular [with à ‘to’]

   Synonym: spécifique

6. (mathematics) eigen-

   valeur propre ― eigenvalue

• approprier
• exproprier
• propriété

• “propre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French propre, borrowed from Latin proprius.

propre m or f

1. (Jersey) clean

   Synonym: net

• proprément (“cleanly”)

Borrowed from Latin proprius.

propre m (oblique and nominative feminine singular propre)

1. (one's) own
2. proper, appropriate, correct
3. special

• English: proper
• French: propre
• Norman: propre

propre

1. definite natural masculine singular of proper