département

See also: departement, Departement, Département, and dêpartément

English

Etymology

From French département. Doublet of department.

Noun

département (plural départements)

1. An administrative unit in various French-speaking countries, smaller than a région, similar to an English county.

Related terms

• départemental

Translations

administrative unit in various French-speaking countries

• Antillean Creole: dépatman
• Danish: departement (da) n
• Esperanto: departemento
• Finnish: departementti (fi)
• French: département (fr) m
• German: Departement (de) n, Département (de) n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: departement n

  Nynorsk: departement n

• Portuguese: departamento (pt) m
• Russian: департамент (ru) m (departament)
• Spanish: departamento (es) m
• Swedish: departement (sv) n

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French departement, from departir +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.paʁ.tə.mɑ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

département m (plural départements)

1. department
2. département

Derived terms

• départemental

Descendants

• → Catalan: departament
• → Danish: departement
• → English: département
• → Finnish: departementti
• → Galician: departamento
• → Moore: departma
• → Portuguese: departamento
• → Romanian: departament
• → Spanish: departamento
• → Turkish: departman

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• empétardent