Etymology

siffle

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Today it means: A sibilant rale. Full definition →

French siffler ← Latin sibilāre
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  1. Latin · derived fromsibilāre
  2. French · borrowed fromsiffler
  3. English todaysiffle

Borrowed from French siffler, from Latin sibilāre. Doublet of sibilate.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.