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Some of them are real gems: tableur (`tabular operator') for `spreadsheet' is concise, precise, and original; baladeur (`stroller') for `walkman,' although basically a loan translation, adds a fresh nuance to the imagery; best of all perhaps is ordinateur for `computer,' the French term (current since the 1960s, adopted by the Dictionnaire in 1983) meaning something like `methodically arranging agent.
To be sure, the Dictionnaire does not consist exclusively of naturalized or Frenchified alien words and wordy phrases of bureaucratic facture.
For the vulgar meanings of a couple of the words in the last contrepèteries, something like Le Petit Robert: Dictionnaire de la Langue Francaise will be needed.
' The Dictionnaire offers many such ingenious coinages but they generally lack the pithiness and sprightliness that enliven such a great deal of scientific and technological terminology in English.
Ernout and Meillet, in their delightful Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine , urbanely review several rather far-fetched possibilities including LMN—well, it is a series—and elephas (elephant), but conclude with a shrug of their shoulders and a suggestion that the word might have come from Etruscan.