arête
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French arête, from Latin arista. Doublet of arista.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
arête (plural arêtes)
- (geology) A very thin ridge of rock.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 88:
- In his old department in Zürich, they sit in glass cases: models to the life of the peaks he had studied, with the strata painted beautifully and accurately, passing over arête and valley alike.
Translations[edit]
a thin ridge of rock
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French areste, from Latin arista.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /a.ʁɛt/
Audio (Paris, France) (une arête) (file)
- (Eastern Quebec) IPA(key): [a.ˈʁɛtʰ]
- (Western Quebec) IPA(key): [a.ˈʁɛtʰ] or IPA(key): [a.ˈʁɛɪ̯tʰ]
- In Quebec French, "ê" is pronounced [ɛɪ̯] in closed syllables in most words. In Eastern Quebec, both arête and arrête are among the exemptions from this rule; in Western Quebec only arête is pronounced with /ɛ/, and only by some speakers.
Homophones: arêtes, arrête, arrêtes, arrêtent
Noun[edit]
arête f (plural arêtes)
- (zoology) bone (of a fish), fishbone
- edge (of an object); ridge, crest (of mountain)
- (architecture) groin (of vault)
- bridge of nose
- (botany) beard (of rye, barley etc.); awn
- (graph theory) edge
Further reading[edit]
- “arête”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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