Passepartout

See also: passepartout and passe-partout

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French passe-partout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paspaʁˈtuː/

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• Rhymes: -uː

Noun

Passepartout n or m (strong, genitive Passepartouts, plural Passepartouts)

1. matte (thick paper or paperboard border used to inset and center the contents of a frame)
2. (chiefly Switzerland) master key (a key that opens a set of several locks)

   Synonyms: Hauptschlüssel, Zentralschlüssel, Generalschlüssel

3. (chiefly Switzerland) season ticket

   Synonym: Dauerkarte

Declension

Declension of Passepartout [neuter // masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das, der	Passepartout	die	Passepartouts
genitive	eines	des	Passepartouts	der	Passepartouts
dative	einem	dem	Passepartout	den	Passepartouts
accusative	ein, einen	das, den	Passepartout	die	Passepartouts

Further reading

• “Passepartout” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Passepartout” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Passepartout” in Duden online
• Passepartout on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de