jeu

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈʒɛw]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈd͡ʒɛw]

jeu

1. inflection of jeure:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. inflection of jaure:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from Old French geu, gieu, giu, from Latin iocus, jocus.

• IPA^(key): /ʒø/

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jeu m (plural jeux)

1. game (activity performed for amusement)
2. play (in a theatre/theater)
3. set (of objects that belong together)
4. manner of handling a gun
5. play (mechanics: a space between two adjacent parts to allow free movement)
6. a pipe organ stop
7. a hand of playing cards

• jouer
• joueur

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

jeu (emphatic form jeusyn)

1. third-person plural of jeh

   of them

• jau (Rumantsch Grischun)
• jou (Sutsilvan)
• ia (Surmiran)
• eau (Puter)
• eu (Vallader)

From Vulgar Latin eo, from Latin ego, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

jeu

1. (Sursilvan) I